Category: Cartooning

There are countless reasons why businesses fail. Some are nobody’s fault. When the pandemic hit, restaurants did everything they could to survive, but many folded. Then there are the management failures. K-Mart wasn’t able to compete against Walmart. Sears was once what Amazon is today.

I will always be more than merely disappointed in my former employer of many years. Senior management’s hubris resulted in a total failure to respond in time to competition from Epic Systems. (No relation to Epic Games, other than they’re both software companies.)

The Federal Trade Commission needs to apply a different standard to its definition of a monopoly where Epic is concerned. A reasonable estimate is that Epic manages 75% of America’s non-military medical records. (Oracle Health, formerly Cerner, has the military systems.)

Epic’s power and influence is finally starting to get some attention…

… from conservative sources…

https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethjoseph/2024/02/26/epics-antitrust-paradox-who-should-control-the-levers-of-healthcare-innovation/

… as well as from the far left.

https://prospect.org/health/2024-10-01-epic-dystopia/