The Epic Founder

[George K]

My old place is transitioning from Cerner (which was horrible for the docs) to Epic in the next few months. One advantage for me, as a patient, is that my new docs will have access to all of my older (>10 years) records.

I haven't used Epic as a doc, obviously, but as a patient, I like MyChart.

[Mik]

MyChart rocks and we're doing even more with it to enroll patients in studies. It will grow to be even more powerful.

I think that's the first picture I've ever seen of her, even having worked with her product for 12 years.

[Mik]

George, did you have order sets in Cerner?

[Mik]

The first quote was from ross Perot, not Judy.

[George K]

@Mik said in The Epic Founder:

George, did you have order sets in Cerner?

Yup.

[Mik]

I think you would find they are pretty similar. Allscripts Sunrise Clinical Manager was roughly the same too.

[George K]

Cerner was fine, if you stuck to the script.

But, entering any order with a different dose, unusual med, awkward timing was a pain.

Also, a one-time med was also a pain. In PACU, I had an order set, but if I wanted to give a one-of medication, it was endless clicks and checkboxes. It was a lot slower than writing "Zofran, 4mg. IV now."

[Mik]

Exceptions are still a pain in Epic too. I've been creating some user case patients for a cancer treatment symptom relief study. They have all this backdated stuff that is pretty much impossible to do with chemo drugs.

[Copper]

@Mik said in The Epic Founder:

The first quote was from ross Perot, not Judy.

I saw that and went looking for a connection between her and him.

I didn't find anything.

[Mik]

He was better looking.

[Jon]

I knew it was a private company that printed money but I never knew it was founded by a woman