Let’s Talk About Epic
Epic is the leader in the electronic health records (EHR) industry. This privately held healthcare software company creates software for both mid-sized and large medical groups. The software is created in-house and shares a single patient-centric database. Their applications support many different aspects of the medical world including, functions linked with registration and scheduling; Clinical systems for doctors, nurses, and emergency medical personnel; Billing systems to insurers and systems for lab technologies. Basically, if it is in the medical world Epic has an APP for that.
Epic serves about 300 customers including, The Cleveland Clinic, CVS MinuteClinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, UCLA Health in Los Angeles, Texas Health Resources and Duke University Health System. Although, Epic Software has been criticized for being expensive the majority of users are extremely satisfied with the software. Not only do users recognize Epic for being exceptional, the software has received many awards. Some of these awards include, the silver award for ‘Excellence in the production of learning content – private sector’ from QVC, the 2014 Best in KLAS award and the 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 Overall Software Suite award.
6 impressive things to know about Epic: