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In many ways, David Feinberg was an unconventional choice to lead Cerner, one of the nation’s largest vendors of electronic health records. As a prior CEO of health systems, he was a
prominent customer of Epic, the company’s arch rival, and a longtime friend of its founder and CEO, Judy Faulkner. At a recent gathering of hospital informatics executives in California,
where one might expect the competitors to be working the room, Feinberg and Faulkner instead gravitated toward each other, chatting easily about the future of their work. Feinberg even
snapped a selfie of the smiling CEOs and tweeted it. “As I told her, we’ve not realized the true promise of what health care technology can bring to the industry just yet,” Feinberg told
STAT of the encounter. “We have a lot of work to do. Judy has also been at this much longer than I have (over 40 years vs. about 4 weeks). I figured I could learn something.” STAT+ Exclusive
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