electronic health record
noun
plural electronic health records
: a digital collection of a patient's medical information (such as medications, immunizations, lab results, or diagnoses) : EHR
Electronic health records have become essential tools in medicine, replacing the rooms full of paper documents that were hard to maintain and subject to fires and other losses.—
Karen Weintraub
Karen WeintraubFor our staff and providers, having one electronic health record means one login and one point of access for all patient information. For patients, it means having one portal for all medical records …—John Wilcox, quoted at Morris (Illinois) Daily Herald
John Wilcox, quoted at Morris (Illinois) Daily HeraldExamples of electronic health record in a Sentence
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Arizona's rural fund budget, which is $167 million for the first year, allocates up to about $30 million for medical diagnostic equipment and technology upgrades, including to electronic health records, specifically for rural health care facilities.
—Sarah Jane Tribble, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
The network uses electronic health records from nine US health systems to monitor vaccine effectiveness from season to season in various age groups.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
In health, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft are supplying data infrastructure services to health-care providers, and are involved in home medical surveillance, electronic health records, predictive measures for infectious diseases, wearables for clinical studies, and more.
—Literary Hub, 22 Apr. 2026
Edge Medicine, a collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley, that will develop an open-source infrastructure that integrates data from electronic health records and wearable biosensors into a continuous health management system.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026
For the past eight months, hundreds of health tech companies have been working to meet goals set out by the federal government to make patient records more portable, create systems that import patients’ data into providers’ electronic health records systems, and stand up various patient apps.
—John Wilkerson, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
After Hurricane Katrina, the potential flooding of hospital basements where paper medical records are typically stored was touted as a good reason for moving to electronic health records.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2012
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Sarah Jane Tribble, CBS News, 27 Apr. 2026
The network uses electronic health records from nine US health systems to monitor vaccine effectiveness from season to season in various age groups.
—Brenda Goodman, CNN Money, 22 Apr. 2026
In health, Alphabet, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft are supplying data infrastructure services to health-care providers, and are involved in home medical surveillance, electronic health records, predictive measures for infectious diseases, wearables for clinical studies, and more.
—Literary Hub, 22 Apr. 2026
Edge Medicine, a collaboration between the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley, that will develop an open-source infrastructure that integrates data from electronic health records and wearable biosensors into a continuous health management system.
—Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2026
For the past eight months, hundreds of health tech companies have been working to meet goals set out by the federal government to make patient records more portable, create systems that import patients’ data into providers’ electronic health records systems, and stand up various patient apps.
—John Wilkerson, STAT, 9 Apr. 2026
After Hurricane Katrina, the potential flooding of hospital basements where paper medical records are typically stored was touted as a good reason for moving to electronic health records.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2012
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“Electronic health record.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/electronic%20health%20record. Accessed 1 May. 2026.
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