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"They were working on each other already, you could get Epic on an Apple device, but it wasn't quick and it wasn't seamless," Thadhani said. "And so they came, they descended here."

Epic is Emory's electronic health record, or EHR, provider. EHRs are digital versions of a patient's medical history that are updated by doctors and nurses. The software is often referred to as the "central nervous system" of a health-care organization, said Seth Howard, Epic's executive vice president of research and development.

Howard said Epic has worked with Apple for many years, deploying apps for the iPhone as far back as 2010. Last year, the company released Epic on Mac, which made its complete suite of applications available on Apple's computer operating system macOS.