What is meant by an "enterprise" system of healthcare, specifically as it relates to the EHR?

What will be an ideal response?


Answers may vary slightly. An enterprise system consists of a single hospital or several hospitals as well as physicians' practices and perhaps pharmacies, laboratories, and other healthcare facilities that all fall under the direction of one board of directors. These may be for-profit or not-for-profit organizations. They may remain separate entities, in that they do not share staff or one health record system, or they may share all staff and functionality. If the facilities are separate entities, then each has its own master patient index, which results in individual practice management databases and EHRs as well. If one database houses all patients from all entities of the enterprise, then there will be one practice management database and one EHR database.

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