Electronic Health Record System

Running head: ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD SYSTEM
Electronic Health Record System
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Introduction:
EHR or the Electronic Health Record is the digital version of the patients paper chart.
EHR is considered to the real-time, patient centered records which is associated with making the
information available instantly and in a secure way only to the authorized users. The EHR is not
only associated with containing the medical and the treatment histories of the patients but is also
built for the purpose of going beyond the standard clinical data which is collected in the office of
the provider and might be associated with including the broader view of the care provided to the
patients. The EHR is associated with containing the medical history of the patients along with the
medication history, and many more (Ankem, & Dhawan, 2017). This in turn is associated with
allowing the access to the various evidence based tools which can be used by the providers for
making decisions related to the patients care. This report would be associated with discussing
about the EHR vendor of Australia along with the solutions that they provide which includes the
functionality, IT infrastructure, cost, risk and security and many more.
Discussion:
About the vendor:
The EHR adaptation in Australia has been seen to be significantly slower than the other
European countries and the role and the usage of the health information system for the prupose
of supporting the healthcare industry is considered to be very important. The vendor which has
been selected is the EPIC Systems Corporation (Zive et al., 2016). EPIC is a privately owned
healthcare software company. EPIC is primarily associated with the development,
manufacturing, licensing, supporting and selling of the trademarked electronic health record
software application which in whole is known as the Epic or an Epic EHR. The vendor is

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associated with the offering of an integrated suite of healthcare software which is seen to be
centered in the Chronicles of the database management system (Hicks et al., 2016). The
applications of Epic is associated with supporting the different functions of the patient care,
which includes the registration, scheduling, clinical system for the doctors and the other
healthcare providers and many more.
Fig 1: EHR Vendor market share
Source: (Palvia, Jacks & Brown, 2015)
The vendor is also associated with providing of the hosted solutions which can be used
by the customers who are not having the wish of maintaining their own servers and the besides
this the short-term optimization along with the implementation consultants by means of the
wholly owned subsidiaries are associated with boosting up of the services.
Epic systems has been voted as the top overall software in the year of 2018 best in the
KLAS awards and besides this the company has also won awards in consecutive 8 years and has
also been capable of taking the top spot for the entire physician practice vendor in the year of
2018 and has also received the Best in the KLAS awards in 7 segments.

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Fig 2: Epic Data Model Archive
Source: (Palvia, Jacks & Brown, 2015)
Market analysis of the vendor:
The main competitors of this vendor includes the Cerner, MEDITECH, Allscripts,
athenahealth and units of IBM, McKesson, Siemens and the GE Healthcare. The vendor has been
selected in different parts of the world for example the Partners Healthcare began adopting the
Epic system in the year of 2015 and had initially been associated with reporting the fact that it