{"id":14802,"date":"2026-07-29T20:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14802"},"modified":"2026-07-29T20:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T20:46:13","slug":"epic-first-doesnt-mean-epic-only-where-hospitals-are-still-buying-from-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/?p=14802","title":{"rendered":"Epic-First Doesn\u2019t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from Startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/epic-health-system-startup\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A survey of 112 health system executives finds that Epic\u2019s hold on hospital IT keeps getting stronger \u2014 but startups still have a shot, provided they solve a specific problem, prove strong ROI or offer a product that Epic is lagging behind on.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/2026\/07\/epic-health-system-startup\/\">Epic-First Doesn\u2019t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from Startups<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/medcitynews.com\/\">MedCity News<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A survey of 112 health system executives finds that Epic\u2019s hold on hospital IT keeps getting stronger \u2014 but startups still have a shot, provided they solve a specific problem, prove strong ROI or offer a product that Epic is lagging behind on. The post Epic-First Doesn\u2019t Mean Epic-Only: Where Hospitals Are Still Buying from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14802"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medical-article.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}