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EPIC Systems Bullying

David Mann | EP Studios | February 21, 2013

I got word through my medical director at work today that the hospital administrators had been contacted by the EPIC electronic health record software company about this post, and demanded that the screenshots of the EPIC user interface be taken down.  Offsetting my pride that someone had actually noticed and read my blog was the sudden fear of facing down a multi-billion dollar company armed to the teeth with expensive lawyers...

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Former healthcare CEO equates Epic customers, hostages

Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | October 18, 2012

Former CEO of Beth Israel Deaconess, Paul Levy has noticed some disturbing similarities between the characteristics of Stockholm syndrome and the attitudes of customers of the Epic Systems toward to the electronic health record (EHR) vendor. Read More »

When EMR Companies Muzzle Doctors

Westby G. Fisher | Blogspot: Dr. Wes | February 20, 2013

It started out as a satire about electronic medical records posted as a computer game review by an electrophysiologist in Kentucky.  The problem was, it contained real screenshots of a real EMR that highlighted certain (how do we say it nicely?) quirks of the software...

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