Epic’s 13 Principles

I recently came across this blog called “Life After Epic” which has the subtitle, “For the soon-to-be-Ex Epic Employee.” Although, if you look at the blog address it’s FiredFromEpic.blogspot.com. I assume Fired from Epic was the original blog name, but was likely changed for obvious reasons.

I’m sure I’ll reference more articles from this blog in the future, but I was really intrigued by the 13 Epic Principles that the blog’s been covering recently. Epic’s 13 Principles definitely provide some interesting insight into the EHR vendor Epic.

1. Do not go public.
2. Do not be acquired.
3. Expectations = reality.
4. Keep commitments.
5. Be frugal.
6. Have standards. Don’t do deals.
7. Create innovative and helpful products.
8. Have fun with customers.
9. Follow processes. Find root causes. Fix processes.
10. Don’t take on debt for operations, no matter how good the deal.
11. Focus on competency. Do not tolerate mediocrity.
12. Teach philosophy and culture.
13. If you disagree, dissent. Once decided, support.

What do you think of these principles? If you’ve dealt with Epic, you’ve no doubt seen a lot of them in action.

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John Lynn

John Lynn is the Founder of HealthcareScene.com, a network of leading Healthcare IT resources. The flagship blog, Healthcare IT Today, contains over 13,000 articles with over half of the articles written by John. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 20 million times.

John manages Healthcare IT Central, the leading career Health IT job board. He also organizes the first of its kind conference and community focused on healthcare marketing, Healthcare and IT Marketing Conference, and a healthcare IT conference, EXPO.health, focused on practical healthcare IT innovation. John is an advisor to multiple healthcare IT companies. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy.

   

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