Dive Brief:
- Epic recently reported it has exchanged close to a quarter of a billion patient health records on its Care Everywhere platform over the past year.
- This is a 300% increase in record exchanges from the previous year.
- Exchanges were conducted with Epic and non-Epic users, health information exchanges, and health information service providers connected to the eHealth Exchange.
Dive Insight:
Epic's Care Everywhere platform supports all of its clinical users, which includes more than 28,600 clinics and 1,200 hospitals, the company said. This constitutes the nation's largest EHR-based exchange group with a patient population of 181 million.
Epic was named a market leader in interoperability in a 2015 KLAS report that surveyed more than 240 providers. Participants said Epic was one of the easiest EHR vendors to connect to as well as athenahealth and Cerner.