AI provider tools will probably drive up health care costs. What?

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I’m at the Epic User Group Meeting in Wisconsin. I’m not allowed to post any photos, but please picture a Windows XP-level meadow with inexplicable kites effortlessly flying over a farmhouse and silo; a staircase that looks like a castle turret with a long, blonde, Rapunzel braid hanging down it; and a carpet with a yellow brick road print going down a hallway of offices. All sights I’ve seen at Epic’s famously fantastical Verona campus. 

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Author: Health Watch Minute

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