STAT+: He was 21 when he programmed MyChart. Now he’s the president of Epic

VERONA, Wis. — Employees at electronic health records giant Epic are occasionally asked to complete an exercise in which they list three people who could replace them. It’s a way of identifying future leaders hidden in the ranks.

Does CEO Judy Faulkner do this exercise herself? “Yeah, absolutely,” Epic President Sumit Rana told STAT. She’s the one who started the practice, he said. 

We don’t know who Faulkner writes down on that list, but Rana is widely expected to take over for the company’s 82-year-old founder, who started Epic in a basement in 1979.

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