Electronic Health Records
Electronic health records that support the New Model of family medicine will be implemented. The electronic health record will enhance and integrate communication, diagnosis and treatment, measurement of processes and results, analysis of the effects of co-morbidity, recording and coding elements of whole-person care, and promoting ongoing, healing relationships between family physicians and their patients.
Implementation Update (January 2005): Implementing electronic heath records (EHR) is in process via the AAFP’s Center for Health Information Technology (CHiT) including an EHR Pilot Project as proof-of-concept for an affordable EHR system. CHiT has also been involved with formation of the Physicians’ EHR Coalition (PEHRC) with 15 other ambulatory care medical associations, and DOQ-IT, a CMS-funded program.