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Healthcare EHR and Clinical Encounter Schema

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ER diagram showing relationships between patients, providers, appointments, encounters, and prescriptions.
ER diagram showing relationships between patients, providers, appointments, encounters, and prescriptions.
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What it shows

  • Treat clinical encounters as the immutable core of all health events.
  • Link vitals, diagnoses, and prescriptions directly to encounter IDs.
  • Preserve provider-patient relationships across chronological clinical visits.

The takeaway

Anchor all clinical events to timestamped encounter records to satisfy strict medical auditing needs.

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