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      <title>Epic - The Best Way to Run Your Company...Into the Ground</title>
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      <description>&lt;h3 id=&#34;how-would-you-like-to-drive-your-healthcare-organization-into-bankruptcy&#34;&gt;How would you like to drive your Healthcare organization into bankruptcy?&lt;/h3&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&#34;https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/8-hospitals-finances-hurt-by-ehr-costs.html&#34;&gt;Beckers Hospital Review&lt;/a&gt; reported in their May 23rd, 2016 edition of the Hospital CFO Report that 8 hospitals&#39; finances were hurt by EHR costs.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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      <title>About</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:15:55 -0700</pubDate>
      
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      <description>Epic Issues? In 2011, a recruiter called me about a job opportunity in my home town of Fresno to work in the hospital where I was born as an Epic Clinical Systems Manager. At the time, it was called Community Medical Centers in Fresno, California.
The people I worked with were awesome, and I enjoyed working hard to learn new technologies.
Epic Failures? During my three years at Community Health Systems in Fresno, then Community Medical Systems, I had mixed experiences with Epic that left me disappointed and wanting to warn other healthcare systems to beware and consider other alternatives.</description>
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      <title>Vendor Lock In</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2021 13:55:12 -0800</pubDate>
      
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&lt;h3 id=&#34;do-you-want-freedom-to-make-choices&#34;&gt;Do you want freedom to make choices?&lt;/h3&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The best and cheapest software?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The best and cheapest and most reliable consultants?&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The best for installation, configuration, testing, training, and maintenance?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Or do you want to be forced to accept one vendor&amp;rsquo;s decision at whatever price they want to require you to pay?&lt;/p&gt;
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