{"id":4124,"date":"2011-08-15T10:14:52","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4124"},"modified":"2011-08-15T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T16:14:54","slug":"epic-founder-judy-faulkner-named-to-us-government-health-information-technology-policy-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4124","title":{"rendered":"Epic Founder Judy Faulkner Named to US Government Health Information Technology Policy Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/opinion\/op-eds\/2011\/08\/democrat-donor-gets-federal-health-policy-slot-despite-conflicts-interest\">Lachlan Markay:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>A federal committee that includes a major donor to President Obama and whose company stands to profit from the panel&#8217;s recommendations holds in its hands the future of health information technology policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.yippy.com\/search?input-form=clusty-simple&#038;v%3Asources=webplus&#038;v%3Aproject=clusty&#038;query=%22Judith+Faulkner%22\">Judith Faulkner<\/a>, founder and CEO of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epic.com\">Epic Systems Corp.<\/a>, secured a seat on a panel charged with recommending how $19 billion in stimulus money dedicated to health IT be spent, despite opposing a key administration position on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>Faulkner and her company oppose the president&#8217;s vision for health IT, but Epic employees are massive Democratic donors. They&#8217;ve given nearly $300,000 to Democrats since 2006, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.<\/p>\n<p>That may help explain both Faulkner&#8217;s appointment to the 13-member Health Information Technology Policy Committee as a representative for health IT vendors, and the accolades her company regularly enjoys from prominent Democrats.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Federal Government should not be subsidizing Health Care Information Technology with our tax dollars.  Organizations should choose automation services that make sense, for them, not for tax reasons\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lachlan Markay: A federal committee that includes a major donor to President Obama and whose company stands to profit from the panel&#8217;s recommendations holds in its hands the future of health information technology policy. Judith Faulkner, founder and CEO of Epic Systems Corp., secured a seat on a panel charged with recommending how $19 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,39,18,9,17,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4124\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}