Judith Faulkner
Judith Faulkner
Judith "Judy" R. Faulkneris the CEO and founder of Epic Systems, a healthcare software company located in Wisconsin. Faulkner founded Epic Systems in 1979, with the original name of Human Services Computing. In 2013, Forbes called her "the most powerful woman in healthcare", and in 2015 the magazine estimated her net worth at $2.6 billion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
computer grad hugely major science
I was an undergrad math major and a grad student in computer science. I'm hugely introverted, not atypical of math majors.
customers hard job requests stay work
I get so many requests for interviews. If I talk to everyone, we can't do our job with our customers and work on our software. It would be hard to stay focused.
ask care cause health interface type understand
Health care organizations don't ask us to interface to every type of module because they understand that it could cause safety problems.
billing care clinical code developed epic health lab occurred original patient system systems time wrote
One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.