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Why Judy Faulkner bought a fire truck
By Giles Bruce
W
hen Epic was building its new campus in Verona,
Wis., it learned its underground parking lots
were too short to fit local fire trucks. So the EHR
vendor bought its own.
"We became the proud owners of a cute red fire engine,
and on it we printed, 'To the Verona Fire Department from
your friendly local software company, Epic," co-founder
and CEO Judy Faulkner wrote in a January blog post.
It's yet another example of how Epic, the nation's largest
EHR vendor by hospital market share, and its rapidly
expanding headquarters are shaping the town — and state
— around it.
"When the fire truck arrived, we decided that we would
drive it ourselves to the fire department, with lights flashing
and alarms blaring," Ms. Faulkner wrote.
She even turned her dog McKinley, a white Samoyed, into
a Dalmatian by taping black pieces of construction paper
on him.
"McKinley jumped out and immediately shook himself —
the spots flew off and he went back to being a Samoyed,"
she wrote. "The fire department folks had a small party
with snacks awaiting us, and they really liked their new fire
truck." n
through different types of partnerships because we are not going to be
focused on some of the areas that Walgreens, Walmart and Amazon
would be focused on.
Q: Along with the long-term goals, what are the big goals
for mid-2024 at Mayo Clinic?
SP: We are preparing in Rochester for a very, very large investment
in our future hospital, and we're asking, "What is the smart hospital
of the future?" How do we create a physical space that stands the test
of time?
We're thinking very much far into the future, but very practically,
for construction, we have to have a series of moves in order to create
space. Additionally, we are thinking about how we can make solid use
cases around automation in order to show an impact by midyear and
by the end of the year. We want to have some really practical spaces
where we've implemented automation solutions, whether it's process
automation, our robotic robotic process automation or AI solutions
and have an impact for our staff this year. n
