Epic Systems

Infobox_Company
company_name = Epic Systems Corporation
company_type = Private
company_slogan = With the patient at the heart.
foundation = 1979
founder = Judy Faulkner
location = 1979 Milky Way, Verona, Wisconsin, United States
key_people = Judy Faulkner, Founder & CEO; Carl Dvorak, Executive Vice President
industry = Health informatics
revenue = $507 million (2007)cite news | last=Newman | first=Judy | title=Microsoft's HealthVault not a threat to Epic, UW-Madison professor says | publisher=Wisconsin State Journal | date=2007-10-09 | accessdate=2007-10-10 | url=http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/biz/index.php?ntid=250218&ntpid=3]
num_employees = 3,100
homepage = [http://www.epicsystems.com www.epicsystems.com]

Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held health care software company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to a new campus in Verona, Wisconsin in late 2005. Nearly all of Epic's roughly 3200 staff (July, 2008) are based in the greater Madison area. Epic has a European office in Den Bosch, Netherlands. [http://www.brabantstad.com/index.php?p=foreign_investment_news_achive_detail&m=39&id=12&n=10]

Epic offers an integrated suite of health care software centered around a hierarchical MUMPS/Caché database. This database management system (DBMS) is called Chronicles. Their applications support all the functions related to patient care: Registration and scheduling systems for clerks; clinical systems for doctors, nurses, emergency personnel, and other care providers; ancillary systems like lab, pharmacy, and radiology; billing systems for care providers as well as insurers. All applications leverage the same database.

Epic's target market consists of the largest health care organizations who are making large investments in technology. It has established itself as the vendor of choice for large and complex health care organizationsFact|date=September 2008. Epic had a partnership with Philips to develop a scaled-down version of Epic's software, called Xtenity, which was marketed to mid-sized health care organizations. This partnership ended on September 29, 2006, and no organizations successfully used Xtenity in production.

Since around 2006, Epic has increasingly been looking at expanding into the international health care market. In 2007, Epic established a subsidiary in the Netherlands to market Epic software in EMEA. Epic has also deployed software in South Africa (Sizwe) and Brunei.

KLAS, a proprietary health care IT rating firm, has given Epic products the following awards:

*Top Ranked Acute Clinical System: EpicCare Inpatient:The EpicCare Inpatient Clinical System is ranked #1 in the Acute Care CDR, Orders & Charting category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.

*Top Ranked Ambulatory Clinical System: EpicCare Ambulatory:The EpicCare Ambulatory EMR is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory EMR (Over 25 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.

*Top Ranked Pharmacy System: EpicRx:The EpicRx Pharmacy system is ranked #1 in the pharmacy (Over 200 Beds) category of the KLAS 2007 Top 20.

*Top Ranked Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling System: Epic's Practice Management Suite:Epic's practice management suite of Resolute Professional Billing, Prelude Enterprise Registration and Cadence Enterprise Scheduling is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling (Over 100 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.

Current applications developed by Epic include EpicCare Inpatient (Universal Hospital System), EpicCare Ambulatory (Clinical Application), EpicRx (Hospital Pharmacy Application), OpTime (Surgical Application), ASAP (Emergency Department Application), Cardiant (Cardiology Application), Radiant (Radiology Application), Prelude (Admission-Discharge-Transfer/Bed Placement/Registration Application), Resolute (Billing Application), Stork (OB/GYN Application), BedTime (Discharge-Transfer-Bed Management Application), Cadence (Appointment Application), EpicWeb (Web-based Clinical Application), MyChart (Patient Chart Access), and Bridges (Interface Application).

It is estimated that after currently scheduled product roll-outs conclude, Epic software will serve over 20% of the entire U.S. populationFact|date=September 2008.

References

External links

* [http://www.epicsystems.com/ Epic Systems Corporation]
* [http://www.healthcomputing.com/VendorDirectory/VendorProfile/?Filter=false&vendorID=54&mSID=&mSCategory=&mSSpecificCategorySize=&SearchBy=Vendor&FilterBy=SPOnly&KeyWord=&OrderBy= KLAS Vendor page: Epic Systems]
* [http://www.answers.com/topic/epic-systems-corporation Company History]
* [http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=22984 An Epic Timeline]
* [http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=22980 "Epic Tale" Isthmus]
* [http://www.kphealthconnectq4update.org/index.html Kaiser Permanente EHR Project]
* [http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=212 Epic's Founder Judy Faulkner Speaks on Culture, Business Beliefs, and Recruiting]