Occupational Electronic Health Records (EHR)

Occupational and environmental medicine (OEM) clinicians require specialized electronic health records (EHRs) to address the privacy, data governance, interoperability, and medical surveillance concerns that are specific to occupational health.

ACOEM presents 10 recommendations that specialized occupational EHR systems (OEHRs) should meet to serve the information needs and practice requirements of OEM clinicians including a recommendation for reporting and medical surveillance (e.g., tracking and reporting immunizations).

Common challenges in OEM practice and potential informatics solutions are used to illustrate each recommendation. The recommendations serve as a framework for occupational health clinicians to consider in their adoption of OEHRs and provide software engineers a set of requirements to facilitate the development and improvement of OEHRs.

ACOEM Guidance Statement can be read here.

Published: November 2024