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Epic Systems Corporation was (apparently) featured in an article on TheDailyWTF.com, a web site about poor programming practices: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx
Notable-- everyone in Madison, WI has heard of this company. I think it has over 1000 employees. PWnsivander the Great 19:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
- While the notability page for companies needs some cleanup itself, perhaps the Epic article can use some outside references. Has anyone found a reputable source to confirm the awards Epic displays on its website? A lot of the links seem to be broken, and some of the pages name the hospitals involved but don't mention Epic directly. Wikky Horse 06:22, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
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- I don't feel it would be appropriate for me to add content, since I work there. But suffice to say this page is accurate, and the awards listed on the web site are accurate.
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- Here are some pages that may be useful for a neutral party interested in improving the page:
- http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=3621
- http://www.wkowtv.com/News/index.php?ID=9913
- http://ckp.kp.org/newsroom/national/archive/nat_030204_epic.html (A news release from Kaiser Permanente)
- http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2004/0524/120_print.html (The last paragraph of this Forbe's article is about Epic)
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- A search for Epic + Kaiser will turn up more gossip than you likely care to wade through. Also, the TheDailyWTF.com article is factually inaccurate, assuming it was meant to be about Epic.
- --JFrancis
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- I don't know which fact in the DailyWTF article you are disputing, but it certainly doesn't contradict anything I ever saw in my 2+ years at Epic, or anything that one of my current co-workers saw in his 2+ years at Epic. If the article wasn't about Epic, then some OTHER company crams all of its server code into a ^ROUTINES global, and puts new hires through 3+ months of training. Every programmer there who cares at all about their future careers leaves as soon as the bloom falls off the rose. (The ones who remain longer are often tied down by their work-visa requirements.) Put simply, being a MUMPS programmer is a dead-end career, and being a VB6 programmer is only marginally better.
- Definitely notable, though. Epic is one of the largest employers in the state of Wisconsin, as measured by number of suckers--er, employees.
- Logfromblammo (talk) 19:26, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
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I can't offer any info that can be cited, but Epic systems is very well know in the medical informatics business field. I have met people around the country who know of the company. Plus, I think a company with 2,500 employees is inherently notable. JeffreyN 19:06, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
I would say to keep this article. I'm familiar with the software and they definitely are an industry leader in Healhcare software. Just because they produce corporate software and not personal (where more people would have heard of them) shouldn't be held against them. Gopher backer 03:26, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Epic has locations in Den Bosch, Netherlands as well
Article says that all 3000 Epic employees are based in Madison. However, there are new offices in Den Bosch, Netherlands. SeaBonnette (talk) 13:57, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
