The eponymous sign outside Epic headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin.Source: Yiem via Wikipedia CCEpic Systems, the health-care software giant whose technology is used in thousands of hospitals and clinics across the country, said on Friday that it's planning on moving all of its customers to a new government-backed medical records exchange by the end of next year.

威斯康星州维罗纳Epic总部外的同名标志。资料来源：Yiem via Wikipedia CCEpic Systems是一家医疗保健软件巨头，其技术已在全国数千家医院和诊所使用。该公司周五表示，计划在明年年底前将所有客户转移到一家新的政府支持的病历交换中心。

Epic is one of the groups that's been helping the federal government establish the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement, or TEFCA, to provide a legal and technical framework for securely sharing patient data. TEFCA launched in December, and Epic said the company's goal is now to have the 'full Epic community' live on the network by the end of 2025.

Epic是帮助联邦政府建立可信交换框架和共同协议（TEFCA）的团体之一，它为安全共享患者数据提供了法律和技术框架。TEFCA于12月推出，Epic表示，公司现在的目标是到2025年底在网络上实现“完整的Epic社区”。

All customers should be committed to the transition a year earlier, Epic said.   Sending medical records between different hospitals, clinics and health-care organizations is notoriously complicated. Information is stored in a variety of formats across dozens of different vendors, making it difficult for doctors and other providers to access all the relevant data on their patients. Epic houses records for more than 280 million individuals in the U.S., though patients often have records across multiple vendors.  There are also significant hurdles to accessing sensitive information due to the privacy protections surrounding patient data.

Epic表示，所有客户都应该提前一年致力于转型。众所周知，在不同的医院、诊所和医疗保健组织之间发送病历非常复杂。信息以多种格式存储在数十家不同的供应商中，这使得医生和其他提供者很难访问患者的所有相关数据。Epic在美国拥有超过2.8亿个人的记录，尽管患者通常有多个供应商的记录。。

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, is a federal law that requires a patient's consent or knowledge for third-party access.Several companies and organizations have formed to try and streamline health-care information exchange, but TEFCA was designed to help bring all the various players together.

《健康保险可携带性和责任法案》（HIPAA）是一项联邦法律，要求患者同意或了解第三方访问。一些公司和组织已经成立，试图简化医疗保健信息交换，但TEFCA旨在帮助将所有不同的参与者聚集在一起。

Because of Epic's dramatic reach and its 45-year history on the market, the company's commitment to .

由于Epic的巨大影响力和45年的市场历史，该公司致力于。