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When she was born. She is now 81 years old. -
She got a Bachelors degree of Arts/Science. 1 out of 2 colleges she went to. -
She got her Masters of Science from the University of Wisconsin. Graduated in 1967. -
Greist and Faulkner met at the University of Wisconsin in 1969. He later became a co founder with Faulkner for the business Epic Systems. -
Her professor from the University of Wisconsin suggested she start writing the code to Epic. -
Started in her basement with $70,000. Only had three employees. -
Used a single Data General Eclipse 16-bit microcomputer. She started this code in her basement. -
Majorie Klein and Faulkner came up with this name. The looked up "Epic" in the dictionary meaning "A glorious recounting of a nation's events". They ended up substituting "patient" for "nation" to reflect on medical record and the community of care. Created Cadence, a software for scheduling patients. -
A system that could connect scheduling with billing. -
They signed a Harvard Community Health Plan for their Cadence System. This lead them to beat many other larger vendors. -
They opened a window based electronic medical records systems was first introduced. -
They had finally got over 100 clients across the country. Employed 125 people. -
It gave patients access to their own medical records. Reported sales are now at $50 million. They now have 400 employees. -
Secured a deal with Kaiser Permanente system. It provided software for 30 hospitals, 423 medical offices, and over 11,000 physicians. -
The largest non-government health care provider picked Epic in a $1.8 billon IT project. Recognizes Epic for having the highest rated software applications -
KLAS places seven Epic products in the top 20 IT products. No other vendor has more than two except for Epic. They now have a revenue of $502 million. -
Now have over 3,000 employees. Is now on construction for building its second phase of its Verona Campus.