David Rosenthal: belief

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…Or even if it’s bad in the other direction, then it’s not just that your billing system is not making it into clinical, you’re potentially causing patient harm and costing lives. Any data flowing in either direction that’s bad is really, really bad in this particular use case. There’s a great Substack called Health API Guy, which I’m going to reference a few times because it’s just some of the best writing on Epic you’ll find. He put it perfectly. “Epic becomes the natural choice for enterprise decision makers, precisely because of its integrated system architecture. Rather than managing multiple vendors and systems, buyers get a comprehensive platform with a single database, unified workflows, and built in operability through Care Everywhere,” which we’ll talk about later. Care Everywhere is the magical button that makes it so that your hospital records at one hospital are easily integrated and viewed in any other hospital that is (of course) also an Epic customer. After they launch Resolute—now we’re in the late-80s into the early-90s—we’re finally entering the PC era. It’s now possible for hospitals and health practices to adopt computers for a few thousand dollars instead of a few tens of thousands of dollars. The market really starts to take off for Epic. On the back of that, in 1992, they launch EpicCare, which I believe is the first graphical user interface, like Windows-based EMR application in the entire industry. Certainly. Epic definitely says that that is true.…

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