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Judy Faulkner's philosophy on interoperability
By Giles Bruce
E
pic founder and CEO Judy Faulkner said her company helped
pave the way for interoperability in healthcare by getting health
systems to buy into data exchange.
Ms. Faulkner said in an Aug. 5 blog post that she was inspired to
pursue interoperability many years ago aer learning that one of her
husband's pediatric patients' lives may have been saved if her medical
records were available in the state where she received emergency
treatment.
e EHR vendor developed its Care Everywhere interoperability
platform for Epic users, but health systems were initially reluctant
because of liability and data quality concerns, Ms. Faulkner wrote. She
discovered that one of the first health systems to adopt the program
— Fountain Valley, Calif.-based MemorialCare — did so aer its CIO
asked his CEO to sign off on some soware he wanted.
"e CEO did not ask what the soware did," Ms. Faulkner wrote.
"He explained to the group of CEOs [at an Epic meeting] that if he
had known what it was for, he would not have signed it! Lucky break,
finally, for Interoperability! Congratulations to the CIO and CEO who
provided that break, Scott Joslyn and Barry Arbuckle!"
Epic helped launch Carequality, a national interoperability framework
for care coordination, and was the first EHR vendor to enroll in
information-sharing group TEFCA, according to Ms. Faulkner.
"It was years before most of the other major vendors developed the
ability to interoperate, and fortunately Meaningful Use requirements
helped move that along," she wrote. "Epic's goal had always been that
regardless of vendor, every patient's data should be able to be shared,
with the patient's permission, wherever the patient went."
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