Epic – Future Proof, EHR Prenup, and Intelligent EHR


Nope! But it has quite a few years of prosperity left in it.


I think it’s funny to call it a prenup. Translation: Read and understand your contract. A lot of people are starting to pay the price for this one.


Let’s be honest. EHRs today aren’t intelligent.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

2 Comments

  • EHRs are not exactly intelligent.
    There are parts that are, but the premise of workflow is what I’ve pounded home from day 1.

    Most EHRs are designed with an “optimum” workflow. Optimum from the vendor’s perspective.
    The reality is most private practices have reinvented the wheel and have their own workflow.
    This workflow may not be the most efficient, it may not be the most practical, but it is what has been used for years (decades?) and works for the practice.
    So: if you want an EHR to work well for your practice you need to either:
    1)change all of your workflows to match what the EHR expects you to do, or
    2) have the EHR customized to your workflows.

  • John,
    I like the way you describe the issue that many face. I agree with you and think it’s largely the challenge that many face with their EHR.

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