Epic Systems

Epic
Type Private
Industry Health informatics
Founder(s) Judy Faulkner
Headquarters Verona, Wisconsin, United States
Key people Judy Faulkner, Founder & CEO
Carl Dvorak, Executive Vice President
Products EpicCare Ambulatory, EpicCare Inpatient, Resolute, Cadence, Willow, OpTime, ASAP, Cardiant, Radiant, Prelude
Revenue $601 million (2008)[1]
Employees 5,200 (2011)
Website www.epic.com

Epic Systems Corporation (commonly known as Epic) is a privately held health care software company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner.[2] Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to a new $300 million campus[3] in Verona, Wisconsin in late 2005. Nearly all of Epic's staff are based in the greater Madison area. Epic also has two international offices in 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Netherlands and Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Epic's target market is large health care organizations involved with making substantial financial investment in technology. Epic offers an integrated suite of health care software centered on a hierarchical MUMPS/Caché database. Their applications support functions related to patient care, including registration and scheduling systems for clerks; clinical systems for doctors, nurses, emergency personnel, and other care providers; systems for lab technicians, pharmacists, and radiologists; and billing systems for insurers.

Epic had a partnership with Philips to develop a scaled-down version of Epic's software, called Xtenity, which was marketed to mid-sized health care organizations. This partnership ended on September 29, 2006, as no organizations used Xtenity in a production environment.

Since 2006, Epic has been attempting to expand into the international health care market. Epic has established subsidiaries in the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates to market Epic software.

Products

Current applications developed by Epic include:

  • ADT (Inpatient and Outpatient Admission-Discharge-Transfer Application)
  • Anesthesia
  • ASAP (Emergency Department Application)
  • Beacon (Oncology Application)
  • Beaker (Clinical Laboratory Application)
  • Bedtime (Bed Management Application)
  • Bridges (Interface Application)
  • Cadence (Scheduling Application)
  • Cardiant (Cardiology Application)
  • Care Everywhere (Information Exchange Application)
  • Clarity (RDBMS Management Application)
  • Data Courier (Data Environment Propagation Utility)
  • Diagnose Behandeling Combinatie (Dutch Billing Module)
  • EpicCare Ambulatory (Ambulatory Medical Record Application)
  • EpicCare Home Health (Specialized Home Health Application for use in Patient Homes)
  • EpicCare Hospice (Specialized Hospice Application)
  • EpicCare Inpatient (Universal Hospital System)
  • EpicCare Link (Web-based Application for Community Users)
  • EpicWeb (Web-based Clinical Application)
  • Haiku (Device Mobility Clinical Application)
  • HIM (Chart Tracking, Chart Deficiency Tracking, Release of Information Application, Coding & Abstracting)
  • Identity (Master Patient Index [MPI] Application)
  • Kaleidoscope (Ophthalmology Application)
  • MyChart (Patient Chart Access)
  • OpTime (Surgical Application)
  • Prelude (Inpatient and Outpatient Registration Application)
  • Radiant (Radiology Application)
  • Reporting Workbench (Operational Reporting Application)
  • Resolute (Billing Application)
  • Stork (OB/Gyn Application)
  • Tapestry (Managed Care Application)
  • Willow Ambulatory (Outpatient Pharmacy Application)
  • Willow Inpatient (Hospital Pharmacy Application)

References

  1. ^ Ivey, Mike (2009-03-17). "Epic's system: Take advantage of need for electronic medical records". madison.com (The Capital Times). http://www.madison.com/tct/mad/topstories/443307. Retrieved 2009-03-19. 
  2. ^ Eisen, Marc (06/20/2008). "Epic Systems Corporation: An Epic timeline". Isthmus. http://www.thedailypage.com/daily/article.php?article=22984. Retrieved 2009-02-20. 
  3. ^ Boulton, Guy (2008-08-24). "Epic’s $300 million expansion tangible sign of success". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/32597729.html. Retrieved 2008-10-25. 

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