Becker's Healthcare August 5, 2024
Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said her company helped pave the way for interoperability in healthcare by getting health systems to buy into data exchange.
Ms. Faulkner said in an Aug. 5 blog post that she was inspired to pursue interoperability many years ago after learning that one of her husband’s pediatric patients’ lives may have been saved if her medical records were available in the state where she received emergency treatment.
The EHR vendor developed its Care Everywhere interoperability platform for Epic users, but health systems were initially reluctant because of liability and data quality concerns, Ms. Faulkner wrote. She discovered that one of the first health systems to adopt the program — Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare —...
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