EpicCare Inpatient EHR Commentary
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Tyson Blauer
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
We have looked to Epic for feedback and direction on workflow practices. There is also a lack of...
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Product
EpicCare Inpatient EHR is a beast, but from a new-user lens, I don't find it to be difficult to...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
When Epic is developing a product, their releases are pretty infrequent and meaningful. When they...
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Product
Epic is quite locked down in terms of what they allow for interfaces with outside vendors when they...
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Product
I'm constantly looking at my Pulse platform metrics and seeing where I can deploy informaticists to...
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Relationship, Product
While Epic gives me a lot of really usable data, I wouldn't give them top marks because they also...
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Value
Epic charges for things. They have a very complex charging matrix, and they are expensive. One...
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Value
EpicCare Inpatient EHR is a complex and expensive thing, but we get what we pay for. If someone...
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Operations
Every once in a while, there is a gap in Epic’s training. For example, when we went live with a...
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Relationship, Product
We have had issues with Care Everywhere. We had breach issues where we got bad information, and it...
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Product
Some things get a little wiggy in Epic's system, but a lot of that is on our build. Sometimes Epic’s...
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Product
Compared to other organizations, Epic is among the better vendors in terms of interoperability....
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Relationship, Product
Sometimes there are too many ways to do the same thing in Epic's system. That is a positive and a...
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Relationship, Product
Sometimes Epic makes decisions I don't understand regarding updates. Also, there are some road bumps...
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Product
What Epic has available meets all our needs. We are not live with everything, but that is by choice...
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Operations
The whole design of EpicCare Inpatient EHR is just brilliant. We have all our modules, and we have...
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Relationship, Operations
We like the amount and the ease of the education that Epic provides for us to find answers on our...
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Relationship
We talk to an executive at Epic regularly. Frequently, we have an internal meeting with our BFF, and...
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Value
EpicCare Inpatient EHR is expensive. I don't know whether Epic has to charge that much. I do not...
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Loyalty, Product
I think we want to use Epic's systems as a single ecosystem. I am happy that we are getting there,...
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Relationship, Product
Epic bashers talk about how we have to give a chance to independent software companies, but that...
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Product
It has bothered me for years that Epic has never developed tools for on-call physicians. I don't...
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Value
Epic's cost is a major concern, and since they are an EHR leader, they appear to have little concern...
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Product
Epic’s update and release process has gotten a lot better. We used to do just one upgrade a year,...
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Relationship
Epic is great at providing support. My support people are amazing. We have a great connection with...
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Operations
I feel like I'm never really fully trained on Epic's solutions just because things change so...
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Product
I don't think EpicCare Inpatient EHR’s level of ease of use is only Epic's fault. It is our fault...
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Loyalty, Product
Epic is very nimble and quick. Before, when we wanted to send text messages to patients, we had to...
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Loyalty, Product
EpicCare Inpatient EHR is highly configurable, and we spend a lot of time making things work how we...
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Operations, Product
Epic puts a lot of effort into ease of use for end users. One of the examples of that is that they...
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Relationship
Epic has something called the Epic App Orchard, and in it, we can find arrangements with third-party...
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Relationship
Epic maintains a lot of contact with their user base, and their developers are from the healthcare...
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Product
From a clinician perspective, there should be an EHR writ large in Epic. One example is with a PHR....
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Operations, Product
It has been a while since I have had any major service or upgrade with Epic, but the upgrades aren't...
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Loyalty
We are getting from the solution what we are willing to pay for and use, but there is functionality...
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Relationship
Epic is very good. I have worked with them a lot in the past, and I have talked about stuff with...
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Product
EpicCare Inpatient EHR can integrate documents well, but the vendor has more challenges with data,...
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Loyalty, Product
One thing that clinicians really want is information pushed to them. That does not require...
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Operations, Product
I would tell a peer or friend to go with a foundation build of Epic's system and not to try to make...
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Relationship
We get a new technical solutions engineer (TS) every once in a while, and it is hard to train the...
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Relationship
Epic has had some turnover in their technical services (TS) team, so we have gotten some newer...
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Product
I would buy EpicCare Inpatient EHR again; I don’t see anything else being up to the same standard....
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Relationship
Across the board, most customer support people from Epic are great. With any Sherlock request I put...
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Culture, Relationship, Operations
Epic tends to overestimate how quickly they can do things. We recently added some more solutions...
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Product
We switched to a weeknight for Epic upgrades because when we did upgrades on the weekend, we had to...
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Operations, Value
I regularly attend some of Epic’s upgrade overviews, development previews, and stuff like that. The...
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Relationship, Operations, Product
There have been a couple of random times when Epic has said that they can do things, but then they...
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Relationship, Product
Since Hyperdrive went in, EpicCare Inpatient EHR has been a lot faster. However, we saw an abundance...
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Relationship, Value
Epic is a good partner to work with. They are necessarily complex. Epic’s blanket fee is...
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Product
Epic is just better. Once an organization gets acclimated to Epic's systems, they have a common user...
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Operations
We did our own training, but Epic supplied a lot of good content.
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Product
The system's usability is a little lower for the inpatient area, and that is probably due to the...
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Value
No other enterprise software suite in our environment operates like Epic's system. We wonder why...
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Culture
People understood that we signed an enterprise agreement with Epic, and to some extent, our license...
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Product
There definitely are clunky workflows in EpicCare Inpatient EHR, and people complain about little...
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Loyalty, Product
EpicCare Inpatient EHR does a lot, and Epic continues to improve it. There is a lot that we do that...
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Relationship
Some of the most interesting conversations I have with Epic involve how they interact with small...
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Relationship
Epic has made some minor improvements in being a little more flexible in working with the providers...
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Product, Value
Epic's platform is still the best in the business today. It is still too expensive, but it is like...
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Loyalty, Relationship
I don't have a lot of hope that Epic is going to get to a perfect rating 12 months from now in terms...
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Product
I would like improvements with wound and burn documentation in EpicCare Inpatient EHR. I would also...
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Product
Epic just started showing data on nursing and how they are documenting in the EHR so that we can...
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Relationship, Operations
Epic used to have a burn collaborative group that met, and I haven't seen that in a really long...
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Relationship, Product
If there is a certain functionality that we want to do in EpicCare Inpatient EHR, our TS person will...
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Relationship, Operations
EpicCare Inpatient EHR has a ton of great places where we can go to get information, so it is...
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Relationship, Product
There are good updates for EpicCare Inpatient EHR that are meeting our needs as Epic continues to...
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Loyalty, Product
Epic is improving some their modules that haven't been very good in the past. One of those is...
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Product
We need some improvements in EpicCare Inpatient EHR. We still use external systems to really analyze...
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Relationship
I don't agree with everything Epic does because they are a little too parental sometimes, but they...
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Value
Epic is pretty up front with charges, and we pay them a lot of money up front. When we first started...
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Value
As we add a module, we add costs, and that adds costs to the system's service and maintenance. A lot...
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Relationship, Product
Epic is the king and queen of interoperability, or so they say. I think Epic does a pretty good job...
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Loyalty, Product
Our clinical satisfaction scores are getting better, but that is predicated on education and the...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Until I actually started working for an organization that was an Epic customer, I didn't understand...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
Epic continues to advance the ball. They are right up there with their use of AI, and their...
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Relationship
When I call an Epic helpline, I get somebody internally, and they answer my question. I don't talk...
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Relationship, Product
For EpicCare Inpatient EHR, we actually have a CDI program where people go around to the hospital...
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Operations
With EpicCare Inpatient EHR, we had a lot of training, but most of it was internal. When we launched...
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Product
We have made some tweaks to EpicCare Inpatient EHR to make it work with our workflow. We haven't...
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Relationship, Product
We have very little downtime with EpicCare Inpatient EHR. Response time and reliability are really...
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Loyalty, Operations
We chose to go with Epic's system because our organization had other Epic systems already. But all...
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Relationship, Product
Epic is by far the best available at this time.
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Value
What is keeping EpicCare Inpatient EHR at our organization is the high level of standards within the...
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Product
There are other health systems in town, and they use Epic systems, so the integration is very...
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Value
The product costs a lot of money, but I haven't really heard anybody at any level suggest that it is...
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Relationship
I appreciate that Epic is very open to sending people out to observe. They are always willing to...
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Product
There is a lot of ambient documentation stuff that is going on right now. Epic is partnering with...
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Operations
Epic doesn't really do any training for end users. They train us, and then we train the end users....
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Culture, Value
In general, Epic doesn’t really nickel-and-dime us. We pay an overall cost, and we get what we get....
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Loyalty, Product
At Epic’s user group meeting, they were really pushing AI stuff. That stuff is coming fast and all...
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Operations, Product
There is always something Epic can improve on with the functionality meeting our needs, but for what...
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Operations, Product
With all the functionality that is getting rolled out, Epic needs to make sure that it is not too...
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Loyalty, Product
Epic is pushing interoperability more than we expected. I see where they are trying to go and where...
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Relationship
Epic will escalate things if they need to and if we need to get developers or their management team...
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Relationship, Operations
Epic has two user group meetings each year. The one in the spring is more for our IT build people,...
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Loyalty, Product
When a patient logs in to the patient portal and sends their provider a question, currently that...
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Product
We have been through other EMRs before, but EpicCare Inpatient EHR seems to be the most robust and...
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Value
When charges are necessary, Epic does a good job of communicating clearly.
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Operations
Epic does a good job of implementing. They give us a foundation to start with, and then we can...
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Operations
Maybe additional training for EpicCare Inpatient EHR could be helpful. Also, there are additional...
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Relationship
We work with someone from Epic who is pretty amazing and does a great job. This individual could get...
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Product, Value
Epic has great reporting methods, so as we make changes, we can go into something called SlicerDicer...
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Relationship, Product
Epic has everything we need. They offer solutions that we can utilize together instead of having to...
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Product
The product is the Cadillac of software systems. Epic's programmers are steps ahead on what is...
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Relationship, Operations
Epic has weLearning tools that we can go to and access at any given moment. Epic brings in...
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Loyalty, Relationship
Epic is usually pretty good at being proactive, and we have one person assigned to us who we can...
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Product
We don’t get many complaints about the ease of use of EpicCare Inpatient EHR. There are complaints...
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Product
In the last year, Epic has been a little better, but they are still trying when it comes to care...
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Relationship, Product
There are a lot of functionality things that have occurred this last year with Epic. We have worked...
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Product
One of our biggest issues with EpicCare Inpatient EHR is the search engine. The system has...
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Loyalty, Product
One really positive thing that I want to give Epic credit for that they have really focused on...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
In the communication space, we do all of our alarms and alerts through Rover. We do Secure Chat...
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Relationship, Value
I always struggle with touting Epic too much, but they are the best in the business at communication...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
Our struggle is that we have been with Epic for several years, so we have made our bed regarding...
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Operations
Even though there are issues with upgrades, Epic really tries hard to fix them. Epic is trying with...
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Relationship, Value
Epic thinks they are perfect, and they are not. People complain. We are complaining on our side....
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Product
Epic's system integrates really well with some of our other systems. We still have some issues...
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Loyalty, Product
The reason for me downgrading Epic slightly is that as far as interoperability goes, they have...
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Operations
We have had a couple of add-on implementations where Epic was constrained with resources. They were...
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Operations
Our implementation of Epic has gotten a little complex, but generally speaking, EpicCare Inpatient...
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Product
EpicCare Inpatient EHR is pretty easy to navigate, and it is pretty user friendly. I use EpicCare...
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Product
What would increase my satisfaction with the overall product quality, including upgrades, would be...
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Relationship
We have named individuals we work with, so we aren't reaching out to just a phone number for...
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Loyalty, Relationship, Product
There is a bit of a gap in support for longer-term care. The system is a little less optimized in...
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