Epic is the most God-awful EMR ever. It loses millions for every hospital system that switches to it. But they still keep switching to it. Are hospital executives being paid off (or threatened)?
Using Epic is like being slowly lowered into a chipper/shredder while someone is scraping their fingernails across a chalkboard, only worse.
From Canada Free Press:
http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40560
Faulkner’s company isn’t just working on various government contracts. She also has some big union contracts, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) for one… one of the biggest government employees unions.
Kaiser Permanente (SEIU-UHW)
Cleveland Clinic (SEIU)
Cedars Sinai (SEIU-UHW and CIR-SEIU)
NYU Langone Medical Center (SEIU)
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (SEIU)
Harvard Community Health Plan (SEIU)
Sutter Health (SEIU)
Geisinger Health System (SEIU)
I suppose with her close connections to the SEIU, a big Obama supporter, it shouldn’t surprise that she is suddenly favored by Obama for appointment to one of his big “committees,” one responsible for spending big Obama bucks.