Becker's Healthcare May 13, 2020
CNBC’s Bertha Coombs interviewed Epic CEO Judy Faulkner during a virtual healthcare event on May 12 and asked about how the company has contributed to the COVID-19 response efforts and what to expect from the EHR giant in the future.
“I think of our health systems as heroes,” she said. “And we see our job as being heroes helping heroes, and we’re proud of that.”
Over the past several weeks, she said one of the big ways that Epic has been able to help its health system clients is through telehealth; many of its customers experienced a hundred-fold increase in telehealth. Ms. Faulkner said during the pandemic Epic has trained around 5,000 people on telehealth at around 200 health systems....