—Verona-based Epic Systems has made changes to its MyChart online patient portal, which allows users to request prescription refills, view test results, and contact physicians, the website EHRIntelligence reported. “In the past, if you had two MyCharts from two different [health organizations that use Epic]…the charts have been separate,” Epic founder and CEO Judith Faulkner told EHRIntelligence. “We have now changed MyChart so that everything is all together no matter how many iterations of the portal you have—or if you have a portal from other vendors.” Some in the healthcare industry have accused Epic and other software vendors of making it difficult for their systems to share data with products from competitors.
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