Emergency Department Encounter Record

Introduction

This is a draft of the Emergency Department Encounter Record supplement to the Patient Care Coordination Technical Framework. This draft is a work in progress, not the official supplement or profile.

Profile Abstract

The Emergency Department Encounter Record is a summary of the patient’s health status, and a record of care rendered between ED arrival and ED discharge. The ED encounter is an episodic medical summary with a focused scope that fulfills a number of collaborative transfers of care.

Glossary

Clinical Data Repository

A Clinical Data Repository (CDR) is a database of clinical information on patients, often optimized for access by individual patients.

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