Epic Systems
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| Epic Systems Corporation | |
|---|---|
| Type | Private |
| Founded | 1979 |
| Founder | Judy Faulkner |
| Headquarters | 1979 Milky Way, Verona, Wisconsin, United States |
| Key people | Judy Faulkner, Founder & CEO; Carl Dvorak, Executive Vice President |
| Industry | Health informatics |
| Revenue | $420 million (2006)[1] |
| Employees | 3,002[1] |
| Website | www.epicsystems.com |
Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held healthcare IT company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to its new facilities in nearby Verona, Wisconsin in late 2005. All of Epic's roughly 3000 staff (March, 2008) are based in the greater Madison area.
Epic offers an integrated suite of healthcare software centered around a hierarchical MUMPS/Caché-based electronic medical record. This database management system (DBMS) is called Chronicles.
Epic's target market consists of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States. Epic had a partnership with Philips to develop a scaled-down version of Epic's software, called Xtenity, which was marketed to mid-sized healthcare organizations. This partnership ended on September 29, 2006, and no organizations ever went up on Xtenity.
Since around 2006, Epic has increasingly been looking at expanding into the International healthcare market. In 2007, Epic created a child company in the Netherlands, meant to market Epic software to the Netherlands and other European countries.
KLAS, a healthcare IT rating firm, has given Epic Systems products the following awards:
- Top Ranked Acute Clinical System: EpicCare Inpatient
- The EpicCare Inpatient Clinical System is ranked #1 in the Acute Care CDR, Orders & Charting category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.
- Top Ranked Ambulatory Clinical System: EpicCare Ambulatory
- The EpicCare Ambulatory EMR is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory EMR (Over 25 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.
- Top Ranked Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling System: Epic's Practice Management Suite
- Epic's practice management suite of Resolute Professional Billing, Prelude Enterprise Registration and Cadence Enterprise Scheduling is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling (Over 100 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.
Current applications developed by Epic include EpicCare InPatient (Universal Hospital System), EpicCare Ambulatory (Clinical Application), OpTime (Surgical Application), ASAP (Emergency Department Application), Cardiant (Cardiology Application), Radiant (Radiology Application), Prelude (Admission-Discharge-Transfer/Bed Placement/Registration Application), Resolute (Billing Application), Stork (OB/GYN Application), BedTime (Discharge-Transfer-Bed Management Application), Cadence (Appointment Application), EpicWeb (Web-based Clinical Application), MyChart (Patient Chart Access), and Bridges (Interface Application).
It is estimated that after currently scheduled product roll-outs conclude, Epic software will serve over 20% of the entire US population.
[edit] References
- ^ a b Newman, Judy. "Microsoft's HealthVault not a threat to Epic, UW-Madison professor says", Wisconsin State Journal, 2007-10-09. Retrieved on 2007-10-10.
