RE: All politics aside for a moment, the software product that Judy built - called Epic - is by far the best electronic medical record system for coordinated patient care in the world.
According to Michelle Malkin:
Faulkner’s closed-end system represents antiquated, hard drive-dependent software firms that refuse to share data with doctors and hospitals using alternative platforms. Health IT analyst John Moore of Chilmark Research, echoing many industry observers, wrote in April that Epic “will ultimately hinder health care organizations’ ability to rapidly innovate.”
Question: If these subsidized data-sharing systems aren’t built to share data to improve health outcomes, why exactly are we subsidizing them? And what exactly are companies like Faulkner’s doing with this enhanced power to consolidate and control Americans’ private health information? It’s a recipe for exactly the kind of abuse that’s at the heart of the IRS and DOJ scandals.
As I reported previously, a little-noticed HHS Inspector General’s report issued last fall exposed how no one is actually verifying whether the transition from paper to electronic is improving patient outcomes and health services. No one is actually guarding against GIGO (garbage in, garbage out). No one is checking whether recipients of the EMR incentives are receiving money redundantly (e.g., raking in payments when they’ve already converted to electronic records). And no one is actually protecting private data from fraud, theft or exploitation.
Perhaps. But EPIC is still a pile of antiquated 20th century obsolete closed source client server crap maintained by an army of clueless low-end developers who are repeatedly recapitulating all the bad practices of software history. This article clears up a few things tho, like why anyone would buy it - it's a lot easier to buy stuff if the union goes along with it.
Of course you should always wonder why your interests would be aligned with the unions, just as unionized employees should wonder why the interests of union leadership are aligned with management, heheh.
Technically, the operating system for Epic is not the most modern. However, no other system provides the overall usability for providing and coordinating care across the inpatient and outpatient arenas.
Imperfect, but WAY ahead of any other product.
Technically, the operating system for Epic is not the most modern. However, no other system provides the overall usability for providing and coordinating care across the inpatient and outpatient arenas.
Imperfect, but WAY ahead of any other product.