Health
Services Information Systems
EHR
Software: Epic
12-15
page paper.
Objectives
Research the EHR Software Epic’s
functions and how it works, and critically analyze your findings.
Guidelines
Specifically, the paper should offer
the following information and address these issues:
- Name of the product
- Uses of the product
- Integration with other
information systems - User friendliness of data entry
and data retrieval - Benefits of this particular
software over similar types of software - The implementation process you
would use to implement the EHR - Critically analyze your
findings
Other
Content Suggestions:
- Terminology
- Philosophical views of the EHR
- Advantages
- Reduction of cost
- Improved quality of care
- Promote evidence-based
medicine - Record keeping and mobility
- Disadvantages
- Costs
- Time
- Governance, privacy, and legal
issues - Privacy concerns
- Legal issues
- Liability
- Legal interoperability
- Regulatory compliance
- Technical Issues
- Standards
- Open specifications
- Customization
- Long-term preservation and
storage of records - Synchronization of records
- E-health and tele-radiology
Other
Guidelines:
- Papers must be 12–15 pages in length,
(this would be roughly one page per area included in the report), 12-point
font, double-spaced, including a cover page, table of contents,
introduction, and body of the report, summary or conclusion, and works
cited. - Even though this is not a
scientific writing assignment and is mostly creative in nature, references
are still very important. At least six authoritative, outside references
are required (anonymous authors or web pages are not acceptable). These
should be listed on the last page, titled Works Cited. - Appropriate APAcitations are
required.





