Healthcare Infrastructure & Security
Health records and AI
The kinds of health records and who controls them, why patient-held records matter, and what AI needs from medical data: structure, coding, consent and safety.
An electronic health record (EHR) is the record a care provider keeps and can share across settings, an electronic medical record (EMR) is usually one practice's clinical record, and a personal health record (PHR) is the record the patient controls. AI tools are only as reliable as the data under them: coded, structured, FHIR-based records with known provenance are what make AI on medical data useful and auditable.
| EHR | Provider record, shareable across care settings |
|---|---|
| EMR | One organisation's clinical record |
| PHR | Patient-controlled record, from many sources |
| What AI needs | Structured, coded data with provenance and consent |
| EU rule for AI | AI Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 |
What is the difference between EHR, EMR and PHR?
- EHR vs EMR vs PHR: Differences ExplainedAn EMR is a clinic's digital chart, an EHR shares records across care settings, and a PHR is kept by the patient.
- Personal Health Record (PHR): Meaning, Apps & TemplatesWhat a personal health record (PHR) is, how it differs from an EHR and your national record, what to put in it, and free apps and printable templates to start.
- What Is Digital Health? Plain Explanation for PatientsWhat digital health means for patients: apps, wearables, online records, telehealth and AI assistants.
What does AI need from medical data?
- AI on medical data: the map for buildersWhat it takes to use large language models and other AI on health records responsibly: where the data comes from, how models reach it (context APIs, MCP, RAG), how patients stay in control, how privacy is protected, how outputs stay traceable, how systems are evaluated, and which rules apply.
- ChatGPT, Claude and Your Health Data: Is It Safe?Is it safe to give ChatGPT or Claude your health data?
For developers
Anpheros Platform
Build on interoperable health data
Anpheros Platform is a FHIR R4 API for medical records, with patient consent, a free sandbox and SDKs for Dart, Flutter and TypeScript.