Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held health care software company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner.[3] Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to a new $300 million campus[4] in Verona, Wisconsin in late 2005. Nearly all of Epic's staff are based in the greater Madison area. Epic has a European office in 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch), Netherlands.[5]
Epic's target market is large health care organizations who are making substantial investments in technology. Epic offers an integrated suite of health care software centered around a hierarchical MUMPS/Caché database. Their applications support all the functions related to patient care, including registration and scheduling systems for clerks; clinical systems for doctors, nurses, emergency personnel, and other care providers; ancillary systems for lab technicians, pharmacists, and radiologists; and billing systems for care providers as well as insurers. All applications leverage the same central database.
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 used Xtenity in a production environment. Epic hired many of the former Philips employees from the Netherlands who helped establish Epic's European location.
Since 2006, Epic has increasingly been working on expansion into the international health care market. In 2007, Epic established a subsidiary in the Netherlands to market Epic software.
In 2010, Epic announced its intention to pursue green energy sources including solar, biomass, and wind power. The company hopes to eventually obtain 80-90% of its energy needs from alternative sources.[6]
Products
Current applications developed by Epic include:
- ADT (Inpatient and Outpatient Admission-Discharge-Transfer Application)
- ASAP (Emergency Department Application)
- Beacon (Oncology Application)
- Beaker (Clinical Laboratory Application)
- BedTime (Bed Management Application)
- Bridges (Interface Application)
- Cadence (Scheduling Application)
- Cardiant (Cardiology Application)
- Care Everywhere (Information Exchange Application)
- Clarity (RDBMS Management Application)
- Data Courier (Data Environment Propagation Utility)
- EpicCare Ambulatory (Ambulatory Medical Record Application)
- EpicCare Home Health (Specialized Home Health Application for use in Patient Homes)
- EpicCare Hospice (Specialized Hospice Application)
- EpicCare Inpatient (Universal Hospital System)
- EpicCare Link (Web-based Application for Community Users)
- EpicWeb (Web-based Clinical Application)
- Haiku (Device Mobility Clinical Application)
- HIM (Chart Tracking, Chart Deficiency Tracking, Release of Information Application, Coding & Abstracting)
- Identity (Master Patient Index [MPI] Application)
- Kaleidoscope (Ophthalmology Application)
- MyChart (Patient Chart Access)
- MyEpic (Dashboard Application)
- OpTime (Surgical Application)
- Phoenix (Transplant Application)
- Prelude (Inpatient and Outpatient Registration Application)
- Radiant (Radiology Application)
- Reporting Workbench (Operational Reporting Application)
- Resolute (Billing Application)
- Stork (OB/Gyn Application)
- Tapestry (Managed Care Application)
- Welcome (Patient Self-Service Kiosk)
- Willow, formerly named EpicRx (Hospital Pharmacy Application
