28 Aug Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner shares vision of single global network for patient data
Judy Faulkner, the billionaire CEO of the medical records software company Epic Systems, offered musings on topics from Silicon Valley companies taking on health care technology to a vision of a unified global health care records system in her keynote address at the annual Epic users conference in Verona.
As always, Faulkner did it in her own famously quirky fashion. The theme of the Users Group Meeting, an event that routinely attracts thousands of health care executives and clinicians to the Madison area, was “the Great Outdoors,” and Faulkner correspondingly dressed as a park ranger.
She opened her talk with anecdotes of her own experiences camping, including a time she caught frogs with her bare hands to cook and eat while on a wilderness trek in Oregon, and a time when a black bear sat down on the side of her tent when she and her husband were camping in Canada.
“I wiggled out (of the tent), and we both tried pushing the bear,” she said. “It was like pushing a boulder. It would not move.
“So, welcome to the Users Group Meeting,” she concluded.
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