Becker's Healthcare March 17, 2025
Epic does multiday immersion trips at health systems to both educate the organizations on how to use the company’s EHR and learn more about healthcare’s technology needs.
“Oftentimes physicians will have a thought of how they would solve a problem,” Jackie Gerhart, MD, vice president of clinical informatics at Epic, told Becker’s at the HIMSS conference in Las Vegas. “But if we can actually have our developers there seeing the problem in real time, the answer the clinician might come up with might not be as efficient or as effective as something we could come up with to solve the problem in a better way.”
The Epic developers might spot, say, a role for AI or automation in a previously...