Editorial Note: We earn a commission from partner links on Forbes Advisor. Commissions do not affect our editors' opinions or evaluations. An EHR system is a software program that allows for EHRs to ...

An electronic health record (EHR) is a collection of a patient's medical history – including diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, allergies, laboratory and test results. EHRs allow patients' ...

Advances in medical imaging and the proliferation of diagnostic and screening tests have generated mountains of data on patient health. Digital information technology has seemed poised to ...

In recent years, medical providers have largely moved away from scrawled paper charts to electronic health records—a switchover spurred both by a 2014 federal mandate and by the promise of better ...