Electronic Health Records
Structured clinical records integrating notes, medications, labs, imaging, orders, billing, and care coordination.
Core metadata
- ID: electronic_health_records
- Era: Modern
- First known date: 1973 (exact)
- Region: United States and later global clinical computing
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: established
Prerequisites
- Database Management Systems (database_management_systems)
- Hospital Information Systems (hospital_information_systems)
- Medical Case Records (medical_case_records)
Dependents
- AI Diagnostic Decision Support (ai_diagnostic_decision_support)
- Real-World Evidence Regulatory Science (real_world_evidence_regulatory_science)
- Telemedicine Video Consults (telemedicine_video_consults)
Fields
Field lanes
- Medical Imaging & Diagnostics: Digital Health
Node sources
- A computer-based record and clinical monitoring system for ambulatory care (American Journal of Public Health, 1977, primary_paper) • Supports: node, maturity
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 75%
- Prerequisite sources: 3
- expert_inference: 1
- primary_source: 2
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
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| Hospital Information Systems (hospital_information_systems) | enabling | 78% | primary_source | Hospital information systems are an enabling deployment lineage for electronic records; HELP included medical-record applications within a broader hospital information system. |
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| Database Management Systems (database_management_systems) | enabling | 74% | primary_source | The Regenstrief system maintained a core computerized medical record and captured structured patient data, requiring database-management capability without implying a relational DBMS. |
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| Medical Case Records (medical_case_records) | historical_predecessor | 74% | expert_inference | Electronic health records digitize the older patient-record lineage; the Regenstrief system is described as a computer-based medical record for maintaining patient records. |
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