Epic Systems

Epic Systems Corporation is a privately held healthcare IT company founded in 1979 by Judy Faulkner. Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic began moving staff to its new facilities in nearby Verona, Wisconsin in 2005.

Epic offers an integrated suite of healthcare software centered around a hierarchical MUMPS/Caché-based electronic medical record. This database management system (DBMS) is called Chronicles.

Epic's target market consists of the largest healthcare organizations in the United States. Epic had a partnership with Philips to develop a scaled-down version of Epic's software, called Xtenity, which was marketed to mid-sized healthcare organizations. This partnership ended on September 29, 2006.

A health IT rating firm has given Epic Systems products the following awards:


 * Top Ranked Acute Clinical System: EpicCare Inpatient
 * The EpicCare Inpatient Clinical System is ranked #1 in the Acute Care CDR, Orders & Charting category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.


 * Top Ranked Ambulatory Clinical System: EpicCare Ambulatory
 * The EpicCare Ambulatory EMR is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory EMR (Over 25 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.


 * Top Ranked Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling System: Epic's Practice Management Suite
 * Epic's practice management suite of Resolute Professional Billing, Prelude Enterprise Registration and Cadence Enterprise Scheduling is ranked #1 in the Ambulatory Billing & Scheduling (Over 100 Physicians) category of the KLAS 2007 Mid-Year Top 20.