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COMPARE AND CONTRAST EMR!
Project = Web Research: Find at least two different Electronic Medical Records providers or Personal Data Records providers.
Provide some details and compare and contrast the systems. 3 pg min, 5 pg max.
Preferable one public or free system vs. paid provider.
Some public choices are open source EMR providers such as VistA derived from the VA system etc. Information on EPIC will not be accepted as this may be included in one of your classes already.
1.) Cerner Corporation
Cerner Corporation is an American based supplier of health information technology (HIT) solutions, services, devices and hardware. In February 2018 its products were in use at more than 27,000 facilities all over the world
2.) Epic Systems Corporation
Epic is a privately held healthcare software company based in US. According to the reports by the company, hospitals that use its software has medical records of 54% patients in the US and 2.5% of patients around the world.
Comparison
Cerner is the more widely used option, with Epic not far behind. Epic is gaining pace with efforts to attract to smaller hospitals and physician. Both are trying best to improve their:
Contrast
One of the new offerings, Epic Sonnet, will be a lighter version of Epic. It’s missing some features, but it’s offered at a low price. Epic is also hiring pros to start a new medical billing unit.
While Cerner recently introduced Cerner RevWorks, a solution meant to improve revenue cycle management.