About EP Studios
Welcome to the EP Studios web site. We offer software utilities for cardiac electrophysiology, including database management, automated procedure reports, and simulation of electrophysiology testing. If you are not sure what cardiac electrophysiology is, check out the web site of the Heart Rhythm Society. This site is intended for medical professionals. If you are a practicing or academic electrophysiologist, cardiology fellow, or EP associated professional, you will find this web site of interest.
At present EP Studios offers the program EP Office for tracking and reporting EP procedures. EP Simulator, a program that simulates electrophysiology testing, is actively under development. Clickit is a simple free program that automates signing of charts in EMR systems, such as Allscripts Touchworks. Rather than wasting time clicking the Sign button with your mouse, the program will do it for you. Finally MorbidMeter is a tiny diversion that you may or may not find amusing.
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Januaray 15, 2010. Another price drop! For a limited time get EP Office Enterprise Edition for only $199. The Enterprise Edition is the multiuser edition suitable for deployment on a network. You know from your experience that most medical software is terribly overpriced. Not so with EP Office! Go to the Purchase page.
December 23, 2009. Price drop! For a limited time get EP Office Personal Edition for only $99. Go to the Purchase page.
November 7, 2009. Free download! MorbidMeter version 0.1.1. Get it here.
EP Office for Cardiac Electrophysiologists from EP Studios
is a Comprehensive Data Management Program for Cardiac
Electrophysiologists- EP Office was designed and implemented by a practicing cardiac electrophysiologist in order to track EP data and automatically create procedure reports. The system was used for years at a major academic center and is now available for general use.
- Numbers, Numbers, Numbers!
- More than any other part of cardiology, electrophysiology deals with numbers: conduction intervals, refractory periods, block cycle lengths, coupling intervals, tachycardia cycle lengths, pacing thresholds, defibrillation thresholds, device model numbers ... the list is endless! No EMR system deals adequately with EP data, but dictating EP reports is also a pain. Moreover, there is no way to go back and pull out any data from dictated reports. The ability to retrospectively analyze EP data is not only important to academic centers, but also to the practicing electrophysiologist, who might want to identify all patients with an EF < 35%, or all patients with a certain model lead that is failing at a greater than expected rate. Having all your EP data in a database also makes quality assurance reports a snap.
- History of EP Office
- EP Office was developed in 1996 and first implemented at a major academic center in November of 1996. Over the years the program has been continually refined, adding the ability to create automated procedure reports and automated billing, as well as other improvements. The program has been in continuous use from 1996 to the present. The original program was designed for a multiuser, large electrophysiology office. A single user Personal Edition was subsequently developed. Both the multiuser and single user editions are available.
- Ease of Use
- EP Office was developed by an electrophysiologist, not by computer programmers who know nothing about EP. It is set up to do things the way EP docs do things. Tabbed data entry forms allow easy entry of all key EP data, and a single click is all that is necessary to produce a formatted, narrative report. These reports are editable Microsoft Word documents, and provide full documentation for services rendered. To suit your own practice, the templates that the reports are based on can be customized to your way of doing things, as everone knows no two electrophysiologists do anything the exact same way. The reports produced by EP Office can be easily incorporated into an EMR system.
- Requirements
- EP Office runs on Windows XP or Vista, and requires Microsoft Office Professional XP or 2003. The Professional edition of Microsoft Office includes Microsoft Access, which is a database system that EP Office runs on. EP Office also utilizes the Word and Excel components of Office to generate procedure reports and billing forms, and the Enterprise Edition of EP Office utilizes Outlook for automatic email notification of attendings that draft reports are ready for review. EP Office is an add-on program to Microsoft Office.
EP Office Editions
- Demo Edition This edition can be downloaded and used for 1 month and has a limit on the number of patients that can be entered into the database.
- Personal Edition This edition is for individual use.
- Enterprise Edition This edition is designed for hospitals, academic institutions, or private practice groups.
Please check out the screenshots available. If you are interested in the Personal or Enterprise Editions of EP Office, please contact us.
News Archive
September 18, 2009. You can now purchase EP Office online. Got to the Purchase page.
September 17, 2009. Check out the early versions of the irreverant program MorbidMeter, on GitHub.
September 7, 2009. EP Office Version 1.7 is here! You can download the demo edition from the Downloads page. If you had trouble with the Beta 2 edition because of missing DLL files, please give this version a try! We are also planning to post downloads for the Personal and Enterprise Edition on this website. Watch for more news soon!
July 1, 2009. Corrected missing DLL file in EP Office Version 1.7 Beta 1 Demo Edition. Please try the Beta 2 version, now available for download. See the Downloads page.
June 28, 2009. EP Office Version 1.7 Beta 1 Demo Edition is now available for download. See the Downloads page.
March 29, 2009. EP Office Version 1.7 is nearing completion and will be available soon. Besides bug fixes and a code overhaul, features include customizable procedure report templates and new autonomic testing forms.
Also new, the Data Entry Forms included with EP Office are now available for free as a separate download. Get them from the Downloads page.
December 23, 2008. New versions of EP Office are in the works. Stay tuned.
December 23, 2008. Clickit has been updated again, now to version 0.4. We've added support for Sovera, the document archiving system used at Jewish Hospital in Louisville, KY, and who knows where else. Get it from the Downloads page. A more generalized version of Clickit is coming soon.
December 11, 2008. The EP Simulator SVN repository at SourceForge is now disabled. All development now is via git, at GitHub. The Sourceforge EP Simulator page is still there, without the SVN repository.
November 23, 2008. Added Vista installation instructions to Downloads page.
October 25, 2008. Added EP Simulator code to GitHub. Will be doing development with git, but will keep the Sourceforge project page up to date as well.
October 24, 2008. We are in the midst of switching to git for EP Simulator development. Git is a true distributed version control system, unlike SVK. Although we plan to keep the Soureforge page going (using git-svn), we will also upload to GitHub. Git looks like fun!
March 29, 2008. New introductory paragraph added to this home page. And don't forget to check out the the ever growing body of open source code at the project page of EP Simulator at Sourceforge.
January 20, 2008. New version of Clickit available on Downloads page.
September 21, 2007. Tired of clicking on the Sign button in Allscripts? Check out Clickit on the Downloads page.
June 13, 2007. EP Simulator project page now available.
June 9, 2007. New project page coming soon for EP Simulator.
January 20, 2007. Specific pricing information is now listed on the Purchase page.
August 23, 2006. It's here! The new EP Studios weblog! We will be posting all sorts of information on the blog, and welcome your comments.
August 20, 2006. It's been a whole year since updating this website! Development on EP Office is frozen. The main concern we have with the program is tying it to the Microsoft platform, specifically Microsoft Access and Office. The problem is related to the instability of the platform. Each Office/Access update has the potential to break EP Office, and this is an unhealthy situation. At this point we are considering opensourcing the project, under a GPL license, which would allow continued development and possibly changing of the platform, at the price of diminished monetary return. I will be adding a blog to this site to discuss this further. The other reason EP Office is frozen is that we are working on a much more exciting project, which we are keeping under wraps for the moment.
August 25, 2005. Fixed broken links to pdf example files, and, yes, the demo program is now available for downloading for real.
August 22, 2005. Sad No More! I switched to Bell South for my ISP, and I can now host my web server on my little Linux computer, Sluggo, again. I expect to add new content to this site soon. Also, please note that the Demo Edition of EP Office is once again available for download. Finally, please notice that the physical address of EP Studios has changed.
May 1, 2005. Sadly, as it was a lot of fun, Insight Broadband detected I was running a web server on my computer, which is a no-no. I am therefore in the process of moving the web page content to their server. As space is limited on the Insightbb personal web pages, we'll have to see how this works out. Stay tuned...
April 4, 2005. Home page edited to provide more up front EP Office info. Logo design altered slightly.
February 24, 2005. Minor template changes made. Page layout changed.
February 4, 2005. EP Office 1.6 setup.exe updated with latest build.
January 25, 2005. Added more procedure report examples to the Screenshots page.
January 8, 2005. More purchase and program information added.
December 27, 2004. Cart link now goes to the purchase page. Download page edited.
December 16, 2004. Unfortunately, due to the dynamic nature of my IP address (I use Insightbb as my ISP), this website was down for a few days. I did not realize that my IP address had changed. I have updated the DNS name servers and this site should be up soon...obviously is up already if you are reading this!
December 4, 2004. Added more screenshots, and the Demo edition is now available for download!
October 30, 2004. Screenshots are now set up as links.
October 23, 2004. Adding some new stuff this weekend. Also, the domain EPOffice.com now points to this home page.
October 17, 2004. EP Studios is now officially incorporated! More content coming soon.
October 3, 2004. Added another screenshot.
October 1, 2004. EP Studios is in the process of incorporation. As soon as this process is complete, a demo version of EP Office will be posted for download. Shortly thereafter, the Personal edition will be posted for purchase.
