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titleGet legal agreements in place to cover data usage.

Laws in the US require that you have a Business Associate Agreement - a BAA. This needs to clearly outline what data you need access to and the valid reasons for doing so.

This is an agreement you need so that the hospital can share data with you.

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Roles: Legal

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titleGet the specification of the interfaces - obtain the Implementation Guide from EPIC

EPIC is a complex system which is implemented differently at each healthcare facility. So it’s important that you get the implementation guide for the hospital you are interfacing with.

Why is every Epic system different?

Richard Wang walks through some of resources that Epic provides to figure out how to integrate with their systems:

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Roles: Integration Engineer and Project Manager.

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titleDocument your own data needs.

It will be necessary to explain to Epic what the data needs of your application are.

This is because you will need to guide Epic customer support staff through setting up the connection required for your application.

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Roles: Integration Engineer and Project Manager.

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