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Where's Epic? In his keynote address Tuesday, cardiologist and health IT futurist Dr. Eric Topol asked that question.
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WakeMed Health & Hospitals, Raleigh, N.C., is bookmarking nearly $100 million to implement an integrated electronic health-record system, its largest single health IT investment to date.
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The labels "cheap," "free" and "government-sponsored," respectively, could describe the three top-rated electronic health-record systems in a just-released online survey of more than 21,000 physicians.
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The market for electronic health-record systems is slowing for hospitals of 200 or more beds as two developers, Epic Systems and Cerner, consolidate their positions atop the heap, according to health IT market watcher KLAS Enterprises, Orem, Utah.
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Washington Hospital Healthcare System, Fremont, Calif., is halfway through installing an $86 million Epic Systems electronic health-record system.
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When Dr. Steven Altschuler became CEO of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia in 2000, he knew the world of pediatric medicine was in the midst of big changes.
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Partners HealthCare, Boston, is in negotiations to replace its patchwork of electronic health-record systems built in-house by industry pioneers with a single commercial system created by Wisconsin developer Epic Systems Corp.
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From her remote Midwestern outpost, Judith Faulkner, 68, has quietly built Epic, which sells electronic health records, into a $1.2 billion business, based on 2011 revenue.
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The two main federal incentive programs for health information technology closed out their first year with a gush of money, but one key to the programs' long-term success will be whether their early appeal to tech-savvy providers is ever felt by the less-advanced majority of hospitals and...
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The push to move the nation from paper to electronic health records is serious business. That's why a first look at the campus of Epic Systems comes as something of a jolt.
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