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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

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.

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.

Roles: Integration Engineer and Project Manager.

To motivate Epic to work with your organization a good technique is to work with a customer of Epic to get your first project done. This customer will have more influence with Epic to help get the co-operation you need to do your integration.

Roles: Business Sponsor