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Epic Systems is a private company that develops and sells electronic medical record software for hospitals and medical schools. It has over 13,000 employees and serves millions of patients worldwide, but also faces criticisms and controversies over data sharing and implementation costs.
MUMPS is a high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database, developed at Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1960s. It is widely used in the U.S. for managing patient medical records and electronic health records, and has a history of portability and multitasking.
An electronic health record (EHR) is a digital collection of patient and population health information that can be shared across different health care settings. EHRs can improve quality care, reduce errors, and facilitate research and development, but also raise privacy and security issues.
An epoch is a fixed date and time used as a reference for measuring system time in computing. Learn about the different epochs used by various software and systems, the problems and solutions related to time representation and overflow, and the satellite-based time systems.
FHIR is a set of rules and specifications for exchanging electronic health care data, created by the HL7 health-care standards organization. It uses web-based API technology, JSON, XML or RDF formats, and is designed to be flexible and adaptable for different settings and systems.
A database is an organized collection of data or a type of data store based on a database management system (DBMS). Learn about the history, design, functions and classification of databases and DBMSs, from navigational to NoSQL, and their applications.
In computing, an enterprise[-wide] master patient index is a form of customer data integration (CDI) specific to the healthcare industry.Healthcare organizations and groups use EMPI to identify, match, merge, de-duplicate, and cleanse patient records to create a master index that may be used to obtain a complete and single view of a patient.
Judith Faulkner is the founder and CEO of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company with a net worth of US$7.8 billion as of July 2024. She is also a philanthropist who signed The Giving Pledge and founded the Roots & Wings Foundation with her husband Dr. Gordon Faulkner.