Over the years 2004 to 2015, and across all healthcare organizations, she believes that Moody’s and Standard & Poor's statistics demonstrate that Epic customers reaped profitability unsurpassed by clients who implemented her competitors’ EHRs.įor Faulkner, 2016 was a very good year, indeed. But, Faulkner has done the math and created charts. Yes, Epic EHR installations are known to cost millions of dollars. She’s also pleased that Epic customers have done well financially, she said. However, there are rewards – for example, knowing that there are so many drug-to-drug interactions – a quarter million – averted through Epic system alerts. “Sometimes what becomes a grind is not the work itself, but how long it takes and how much of my life it takes and how little I have for other things.” Is there any time when it becomes a grind? “Kit is making everything very open,” Faulkner said.įaulkner seems to relish her work and is buoyed by it. The trade name for Epic's analytics suite is Cogito, from the Latin phrase “cogito ergo sum” – “I think, therefore I am.” In mid-2016, Epic renamed the data warehouse portion of the suite “Caboodle” and Faulkner is now working on Kit – as in Kit & Caboodle. “I don’t like boring words,” Faulkner said. The two new versions of Epic in development can provide a pathway to adding all the features at a later time.Īnd then there’s “Caboodle” – the name of Epic’s data warehouse. #Caboodle epic full#“So, if you are a critical access hospital, you don’t need the full Epic. “We’re finding that people need different things,” she said. Both will provide a path toward upgrading to the full product. Then, there’s yet another version, one between the full Epic EHR and the Sonnet. It has a lower price point, and it can be just the right technology for organizations who don’t need the features of the full Epic EHR. She describes Sonnet, which is now in development, as Epic technology with some of the features removed. As she put it, “even though we’re computer scientists, we can still be literate.” There’s Epic Sonnet.” She pauses to note that an “epic” is a long poem – as in Homer’s Odyssey. “There’s going to be three versions of Epic,” Faulkner said. “We’re developing some really nifty new software,” she told Healthcare IT News on Sunday after attending the daylong CHIME-HIMSS CIO Forum at HIMSS17. In the world of Epic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner, where creating new technology meets with a delight for words, 2016 was a productive and rewarding year.
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