The Importance Of The Epic System

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Today, I will be speaking about the Epic System and why it is so significant. The Epic system is a software that majority of hospital and health clinic’s practice. Epic is a private company with private owned employees. It is a system in the computer that keeps files confidential and secluded. Epic system is used often in hospitals and healthcare clinics because it is easy to learn, organized, safe and secure. As stated in Epic.com “EpicCare EMR is known for being fast and physician-friendly”. With this said more health care facilities prefer to use this system. Also, most of these businesses are beginning to start their employees out on this program. Another key point, with this system patients are benefiting from it as well. A lot of patients …show more content…

A few added helpful things it does is: installs quickly, lets patients do more, and is more profitable. Epic has been named the number one overall best software in 2013. It continues to get great ratings about how quick they are. Epic system also is not only helpful to the employees it is also very useful for the patients. Like I mentioned in a prior statement, Epic system allows patient to be able to log in and see their history of health. This helps the patient because they can keep track of all of their medical history, as well as print off the information they may need instead of going through the actual facility. According to a Nurse colleague of mine, I had interviewed her about this product. She says “it is a great system and very easy to work with.” She claimed it helps out a lot to have the e-learning class to jump start on the system when you’re a new employee. At her current location, all the employees love the system, and love to be able to learn hands on from day one of

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