Customers Rate Epic as Best Overall Vendor in Healthcare for Seventh Consecutive Time.Business Editors MADISON, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 27, 2003 KLAS KLAS Keystone Library Automation System Enterprises named Epic Systems Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held healthcare IT company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to its new facilities in nearby Verona, Wisconsin in 2005. Corporation Best Overall Vendor in its Top 20 Year-end Report Card, based on a confidential survey of CIOs, executives, managers, and clinicians representing over 4,000 healthcare facilities. KLAS releases its Top 20 assessments of the healthcare IT vendor market twice a year. Epic was cited as the top vendor - out of over 200 rated in the survey - for the seventh consecutive time. Commenting on the company's success in the KLAS rankings, Epic CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Judy Faulkner said, "KLAS makes it their business to talk to real customers. They perform a valuable service as the 'consumer reports' of healthcare software." Faulkner added, "We're pleased and honored to be selected as the top vendor by the industry." Kent Gale, KLAS' Executive Director of Market Intelligence remarked, "Epic holds the two longest streaks in the KLAS Top 20, with four years as Best Overall and four years as Best in KLAS for EMR (ElectroMagnetic Radiation) The emanation of energy from everything in the universe. Although the EMR from electrical and electronic devices is typically measured for practical, every-day situations, every object, including humans, emanates energy. ." Gale continued, "When you talk to healthcare professionals and CIOs all day like I do, you realize the strength of that accomplishment." Epic Systems Corporation (Madison, WI) develops integrated inpatient, ambulatory, and payor systems. Epic provides the information backbone for many of the largest, most progressive healthcare organizations in the country, linking thousands of concurrent users with a shared source A licensing agreement from Microsoft for selected customers that allows them to look at certain parts of Microsoft source code. The companies are encouraged to make suggestions, but unlike open source software, in most cases, they are prohibited from making the changes themselves. of relevant clinical, access, and revenue-cycle information. All Epic applications incorporate the safety net of embedded Inserted into. See embedded system. clinical and financial decision support throughout the care continuum. KLAS Enterprises (Draper, UT), founded in 1996, is the only research and consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a specializing in monitoring and reporting the performance of healthcare's information technology (HIT) vendors. Their staff and advisory board average 25 years of healthcare information technology experience. The KLAS Mission Statement: "To improve healthcare information technology (HIT) delivery by independently measuring vendor performance for the benefit of our healthcare provider partners, consultants, investors and vendors." |
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