Primary Care For All

Health care providers across the country and around the world are feeling pressure to convert their paper medical records to electronic health records (EHRs). Just as children are not small adults, a pediatric EHR is not just an adaptation of an adult EHR. A good pediatric EHR must be designed from the beginning with pediatric requirements in mind. A poorly designed system may do more harm than good. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) Implementing an Electronic Health Record Toolkit will help you prepare your office for the transition, select a vendor, address the challenges of implementation, and realized additional benefits, beyond just reducing paper, that are available with an EHR. Support for this toolkit was received through a grant from Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, a division of Wyeth.