1. Digital Patient Records
1.1. Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
1.1.1. Designed not to be shared beyond the individual practice
1.1.2. Contains patient medical and clinical information by one particular medical profession
1.1.3. Used by medical staff for diagnosis and treatment
1.2. Electronic Health Records (EHR)
1.2.1. Capable of being shared with with other medical staff across more than one health care organization
1.2.2. Contains a patient’s medical history, diagnoses, medications, treatment plans, immunization dates, allergies, radiology images, and laboratory and test results
1.3. Personal Healthcare Records (PHR)
1.3.1. Also known as Protected Health Information (PHI) or Patient Portal
1.3.2. Patients have the ability to make written corrections to their helth information
1.3.3. Any health information that can identify a patient
2. Information and Communication Technologies
2.1. E-Prescribing
2.1.1. Allows doctors to send medication prescribtions directly to the patients choosen pharmacy
2.2. Health Information Exchanges
2.2.1. Cancer Registries
2.2.2. Computerized Disease Registries
2.2.2.1. Ability to manage and identify a particular condition across a region.
2.2.2.2. Registry can assist medical staff to choose appropriate care
2.2.3. Organ Donor List
2.3. E-Health Tools
2.3.1. Health Information
2.3.2. Behavioral Change/Prevention
2.3.3. Health Self-Management,
2.3.4. Online Communities,
2.3.5. Decision Support
2.3.6. Disease Management
2.4. TeleMedic
2.4.1. Real time interaction and medical care with a doctor and a patient outside of the medical facility
3. Scheduling Software
3.1. Automated system for patients to make medical appointments
4. Medical Billing
4.1. Patient billing
4.1.1. Classifing, Processing and Sending patient medical bills