Electronic Health Record | Issues Discussion

Running head: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
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ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD
Introduction
Universal Health is a large organization focusing on providing care to different people
and it is a not for profit organization. The cancer treatment facilities are two under this
organization namely, South and North Oncology hospitals. It has been seen that the EHR system
they use are different that is North division uses Chrystal and South is not and thus merging of
these two databases lead to different issues. In the following section the issues would be
discussed in details.
Discussion
The North and South oncology hospitals under the Universal Health which focuses on the
cancer treatment of people. Hence, the care delivery is dependent on long term factor and also
costly. On this context it can be found that both the oncology hospitals work on electronic health
record. Chrystal is the main EHR vendor of the North oncology department of the system
(Emrsystems.net, 2020). However, the South division of the health care system is working on a
software and trying to merge this interface with the Chrystal. Moreover, the process of the
merging has not been totally successful and found when the people of the navigator team found
this is the primary issue. Moreover, the process of the identification of the flaw is very much
hard as the data storing process has been very much bifurcated. On this context it can also be
stated that the process of merging is required for the better treatment providence to the cancer
patients as both the hospitals if connected then the data resource would help in the treatment
providence to the similar cases faced by one hospital. Moreover, the issue is effective as both the
hospitals comprises of a huge amount of data and the data are stored in different forms (Biancone
et al., 2019). The treatment procedures of treatment of these two hospital facilities has been seen