Jan 18 2012
The New York Times: Digitizing Health Records, Before It Was Cool
Operating on 800 acres of former farmland near Madison, Wis., Epic Systems supplies electronic records for large health care providers like the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles ... it helps keep track of 40 million patients, alongside a handful of large software companies and hundreds of smaller firms that have emerged to digitize health records. Unlike some of those firms, Epic is no newcomer (Freudenheim, 1/14).
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