Ms. Faulkner founded Epic in her basement in 1979 and has built the company into a large enterprise dominating the EHR and healthcare data space. More than 305 million patients have EHRs in Epic, which has been named the No. 1 overall software suite in KLAS for 13 years. Epic EHRs are now installed at 39% of hospitals in the U.S., adding 153 hospitals in the last year. Ms. Faulkner has built a significant campus in Verona, Wis., and championed a culture of collaboration. In addition to the EHR, Epic has Cosmos, a data platform including information from 1,412 hospitals and 249 million patients. The company has turned its attention in the last few years to leveraging artificial intelligence in new ways to support clinicians and forged partnerships with several companies, including Microsoft.
