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Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company by briffle on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @12:44PM (#16267217)
They were the first 'big' client of Epic Software. Many other hospital systems around the US now use Epic, and have similar features.
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Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company by guelo on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:32PM (#16268742)
The difference is when you're on something like BlueCross you have a "network" of hospitals and independent doctors and labs and pharmacies that you can choose from. But those are not on all on one IT system and a lot of times they have no way of communicating with each other. With Kaiser it's all vertically integrated under one company that can impose a system-wide IT system.
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Re:Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company by astrange on Tuesday January 30, 2018 @03:34PM (#16268757)
You may be amused to hear about the programming language they use.

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS

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