Nursing Informatics Assesment Report

Running Head: NURSING INFORMATICS
NURSING INFORMATICS
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

NURSING INFORMATICS1
Nursing informatics is a branch that deals with the collaboration of science with
technology and analytical science to enhance the service of a healthcare organization. It helps in
identifying, defining, managing and communicating data, information, wisdom and knowledge in
nursing practice. The use of Information Technology (IT) in a medical setting has been
beneficial for the service users who are the patients. This paper will focus on the Electronic
Health Record of Universal Health, which is a non-profit healthcare system who have 12
hospitals in three states under their control including an oncology program in Arizona. They are
known as Oncology North, which is an Academic Hospital and Oncology South, which is a
national oncology healthcare system.
The EHR system of oncology south will be changed according to the EHR of oncology
north, which is known as Chrystal as it was a platform for Universal Health for the last 8 years. It
will be aligned with the rest of the organization so the installation of the new system will be a
strenuous work and it will go through several processes that includes stages of testing. The
operating model will be affected when the system will change of the whole organization. The
company works for oncology patients and the EHR will keep information of the oncology
patients, which is a majority in a developed country. There is a need to work together to create a
standardized oncology solution for Universal Health.
When Chrystal was being used in oncology north then it raised several issues in the
working of the EHR as it had many functional gaps during the testing and the processing. The
EHR vendors of Chrystal, involved its alignment specialist during the conversion of EHR system
in both Academic Hospital and oncology program. The issue with the old EHR system was that
it did not aligned with the requirements of oncology specialists.