HIMSS Word of the Day #273: Ambulatory EHR
An ambulatory EHR is the electronic health record that supports clinics, physician offices, and other outpatient settings, with documentation, orders, results, and messaging. This post covers how it differs from inpatient systems, what national data show about adoption, and what studies of team-based documentation, AI scribes, and inbox use say about the time clinicians spend in the record.