[riceart]

> The service seems to be by a company called Epic (www.epic.com), based in Wisconsin.

Lol, that mom and pop shop.

That’s the largest EMR vendor in North America and second in the world.

They’re the provider of the patient portal frontend amongst other things but there’s a lot more behind the scenes that must be done (with varying levels of quality) that is institution specific. Just using Epic does not make this work.

[brendanyounger]

Exactly. IF you're a hospital system paying 10's of millions of dollars annually to Epic, and IF you want to pay for Epic's price estimation tool and offer it to consumers, then, yes, your patients can get a rough estimate of the cost of their elective surgery.

I grew up in Madison, Wisconsin. Most of my graduating high school class works for Epic. Their campus rivals Google's. Fun fact, they bought all the farm land you can see to the horizon and rented it back to the farmers for below market rates just to ensure the view from their campus was unobstructed by new development.

If you think anything about Epic is free or in the patient's best interest, check out their auditorium: https://cuningham.com/portfolio/epic-deep-space-auditorium You could host a Taylor Swift concert in there and have unused seating.

[sh34r]

Putting aside the systemic critiques, I really dig the design of that building and its surroundings. That auditorium even puts Apple's to shame.

[chessgecko]

And apparently they have so many employees the auditorium isn’t big enough anymore so there’s some spillover for all staff meetings

[nanidin]

> You could host a Taylor Swift concert in there and have unused seating.

Taylor Swift regularly sells out venues with capacity of 70k+ (football stadiums), it's doubtful she would even consider an 11k venue unless it was a private event.