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Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held
Privately held company

The term privately held company refers to the ownership of a business company in two different ways: first, referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations; and second, referring to ownership of the company's stock by a relatively small number of holders who do not trade the stock publicly on the stock market....
 health care software company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
, Epic began moving staff to a new campus in Verona
Verona, Wisconsin

Verona is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 7,052....
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
 in late 2005. Nearly all of Epic's staff are based in the greater Madison area. Epic has a European office in Den Bosch, Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
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Epic's target market is large health care organizations who are making substantial investments in technology.






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Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held
Privately held company

The term privately held company refers to the ownership of a business company in two different ways: first, referring to ownership by non-governmental organizations; and second, referring to ownership of the company's stock by a relatively small number of holders who do not trade the stock publicly on the stock market....
 health care software company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Madison is the List of U.S. state capitals of the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the county seat of Dane County, Wisconsin. It is also home to the University of Wisconsin–Madison....
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
, Epic began moving staff to a new campus in Verona
Verona, Wisconsin

Verona is a city in Dane County, Wisconsin, Wisconsin, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city population was 7,052....
, Wisconsin
Wisconsin

Wisconsin is one of the fifty U.S. state in the United States of America, located in the north central part of the United States. It borders two of the five Great Lakes and four U.S....
 in late 2005. Nearly all of Epic's staff are based in the greater Madison area. Epic has a European office in Den Bosch, Netherlands
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
.

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
MUMPS

MUMPS , or alternatively M, is a programming language created in the late 1960s, originally for use in the Health care. It was designed for the production of multi-user database-driven applications....
/Caché
Caché (software)

InterSystems Cach? is an object database management system from InterSystems. It provides Object and SQL access to the database, as well as allowing direct manipulation of Cach?s underlying data structures....
 database. Their applications support all the functions related to patient care: 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
Philips

Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , usually known as Philips, is a Netherlands electronics company. It is one of the largest electronics companies in the world, founded and headquartered in the Netherlands....
 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
Netherlands

The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....
 to market Epic software.

KLAS, a proprietary health care IT rating firm, has given Epic products the following awards:

  • Top Ranked Acute Clinical System: EpicCare Inpatient
The EpicCare Inpatient Clinical System is ranked #1 in the Acute Care CDR, Orders & Charting category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.


  • Top Ranked Ambulatory Clinical System: EpicCare Ambulatory
The EpicCare Ambulatory EMR is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory EMR (Over 25 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.


  • Top Ranked Pharmacy System: EpicRx
The EpicRx Pharmacy system is ranked #1 in the pharmacy (Over 200 Beds) category of the KLAS 2007 Top 20.


  • Top Ranked Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling System: Epic's Practice Management Suite
Epic's practice management suite of Resolute Professional Billing, Prelude Enterprise Registration and Cadence Enterprise Scheduling is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling (Over 100 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.


Current applications developed by Epic include:
  • EpicCare Inpatient (Universal Hospital System)
  • EpicCare Ambulatory (Clinical Application)
  • EpicRx (Hospital Pharmacy Application)
  • OpTime (Surgical Application)
  • ASAP (Emergency Department Application)
  • Cardiant (Cardiology Application)
  • Radiant (Radiology Application)
  • Prelude (Admission-Discharge-Transfer/Bed Placement/Registration Application)
  • Resolute (Billing Application)
  • Stork (OB/GYN Application)
  • BedTime (Discharge-Transfer-Bed Management Application)
  • Cadence (Scheduling Application)
  • EpicWeb (Web-based Clinical Application)
  • EpicCare Link (Web-based application for community users)
  • MyChart (Patient Chart Access)
  • Bridges (Interface Application)


It is estimated that after currently scheduled product roll-outs conclude, Epic software will serve over 20% of the entire U.S. population..

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