Becker's Healthcare August 12, 2024
Health IT — well, it’s complicated.
So says Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, who recalled an inpatient EHR vendor CEO saying that the ambulatory side was “easy.”
“It’s not a discrete and bounded episode of care in the same way that an inpatient stay is. Ambulatory care patients don’t get discharged,” Ms. Faulkner wrote in an Aug. 5 blog post. “It’s hard to take an inpatient system and make it work for ambulatory care. Ambulatory care is continuity of care, which requires some tricky programming. And even trickier is doing both in a shared manner, giving the complete view of the patient, both as a hospital inpatient and...
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