"Recently Kaiser has been trying to position itself as the "authority" on the automated medical record, and Kaiser executives have been trying to sell Congress on their amazing HealthConnect system.
The problem is HealthConnect is not a system: it's a fancy new label for a motley collection of old "legacy" applications combined with some new components from a vendor called Epic. The "Epic" modules were originally billed as the Automated Medical Record, but Kaiser was chiefly interested in the billing module, so they settled for a less ambitious project of combining a few Epic modules with the variety of workhorse systems that have been in place for years. It's an act of deception to present this situation to Congress as either a new, cutting edge system (even Epic is based on archaic technology) or a fully integrated system."
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"Recently Kaiser has been trying to position itself as the "authority" on the automated medical record, and Kaiser executives have been trying to sell Congress on their amazing HealthConnect system.
The problem is HealthConnect is not a system: it's a fancy new label for a motley collection of old "legacy" applications combined with some new components from a vendor called Epic. The "Epic" modules were originally billed as the Automated Medical Record, but Kaiser was chiefly interested in the billing module, so they settled for a less ambitious project of combining a few Epic modules with the variety of workhorse systems that have been in place for years. It's an act of deception to present this situation to Congress as either a new, cutting edge system (even Epic is based on archaic technology) or a fully integrated system."
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