Judith Faulkner
– founder of Epic Systems
Experience of great innovators: Judith Faulkner, founder of Epic Systems started the company with an investment of $ 6000.
“Every day, doctors are using more than one million Records of Epic System”
Judith Faulkner, founder of EPIC system at the beginning of the company from an investment of $ 6,000 in 1979. Judith also was known by the name of Judy. Her parents gave some money to start the company. she began working with three part-time employees from the basement of an apartment in Madison. Today this company is millions of dollar. Epic system is considered the most distinguished and Famous health IT company in the world. There are more than 8000 employees.
“Every day, doctors are using more than one million Records of Epic System”
Epic system provides technologies of store electronic health records. medical Information store of half of the US population in the software company of software engineer Judith. The company has recognized that doctors everyday use more than one million of Epic Records. Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins is a big name for her client. But if you have never heard about of the company’s founder Judith, she is responsible itself, Because they are far away from the press and gives very few interviews. Publicity doesn’t like them.
“Every day, doctors are using more than one million Records of Epic System”
Judith says I was a software programmer. When I started working, I was not confident that I’m going to start a big company. I just had the same thought, This work can help in saving the life of people. Her spirit has been very strong in the EPIC work. Judith coding was done by keeping the patient in the center.
“Today there are more than eight thousand employees in the company”
When she started to develop the clinic system, the billing and lab was just the name of the healthcare system. Was not extended to any type of database. she was said in an interview that in the beginning, I did not know how that can be marketing. So we did not just marketing. Of course, I did the same who I did know.
“Over 99 percent of the property has already been announced to the Giving Pledge”
I am a technical person. I know the language of the software. So I focused on it. The rest of the work people have done. The same people who promote it. It is the result of being removed from the promotion policy, The company is to operate a total of only two percent of the Sales and Marketing Staff. Their goal is for the company- do good, do experience and earn money. The company was the first original name of Human Services Computing. But Its name was changed in 1983 by Epic System. The special thing is, her company did not raise funds from the ever venture and private equity investors. However, she was to receive its proposals continue. But Judith had always refused it. Judith was born in 1943. She took the degree of Bachelor in Mathematics from Dickinson College and after obtained her master’s degree in Computer Science. After she started the EPIC company. According to her company’s website, she has available records of 190 million patients. The located on Verona campus is special from all epic campus. Each section of the campus is on a different theme. Here are Tree House available for a meeting. Here the wind turbine available to create the energy of their own needs. And 18 acres of solar panels.
“Forbes has estimated 2.2 million of their total assets in the last year, Judith is the third richest self-made woman in America”
