Re:Big Tech Is Going After Health Care
by mxwll on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @09:17PM
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You hit the nail on the head.
Building anything on top of EPIC is unbelievably painful. You either pay EPIC engineers to access their "Dark API's" or pay $$ for their certifications.
Very few of these big medical device start-ups are actually integrating with patient records at a significant scale. Every instance of EPIC or Cerner is different and there is a lot of manual work needed to get up and running with live data in the patient record.
Building anything on top of EPIC is unbelievably painful. You either pay EPIC engineers to access their "Dark API's" or pay $$ for their certifications.
Very few of these big medical device start-ups are actually integrating with patient records at a significant scale. Every instance of EPIC or Cerner is different and there is a lot of manual work needed to get up and running with live data in the patient record.