Future of patient health records is not merely electronic,’ Epic exec says

Becker's Healthcare June 11, 2018
Julie Spitzer

The future of electronic health record keeping is moving beyond a digital filing cabinet for patient records and becoming a system that considers the whole patient picture, writes Josh Holzbauer, head of physician well-being for Epic, in a LinkedIn blog post.

“The future of patient health records is not merely electronic. It’s predictive, agile, mobile and very personal. Most of all, it’s comprehensive,” Mr. Holzbauer writes, dubbing the future EHR a CHR — comprehensive health record.

Here are five aspects Mr. Holzhauer said physicians can expect to see in the CHR of the future:

1. The CHR will follow patients wherever they recieve care and create “one virtual system” accessible worldwide. External data will be automatically sent to the chart...

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