A Dallas hospital’s bizarre bungle of the first US case of Ebola leaves me wondering: Is someone covering up for a crony billionaire Obama donor and her controversy-plagued, taxpayer-subsidized electronic medical records company?

Last week, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital revealed in a statement that a procedural flaw in its online health-records system led to possibly deadly miscommunication between nurses and doctors.

The facility sent Ebola victim Thomas Duncan home despite showing signs of the disease — only to admit him with worse symptoms three days later.

Hospital officials, who came forward “in the interest of transparency,” initially cited workflow and information-sharing problems for the botch.

“Protocols were followed by both the physician and the nurses,” the statement noted. “However, we have identified a flaw in the way the physician and nursing portions of our electronic health records interacted in this specific case.”

Mysteriously, after taking special care to get its facts straight before releasing the statement, the hospital backed off a day later.

The very specific communications flaw in the medical-records software — which apparently had prevented some staff from accessing Duncan’s travel history from Liberia — suddenly disappeared.

What really happened?

Here’s what I can tell you for sure: Texas Health contracts with Epic Systems for its electronic-medical-records (EMR) system — and the Dallas hospital isn’t the only client that has complained about its costly information-sharing flaws and interoperability failures.

Epic was founded by billionaire Judy Faulkner, a top Obama donor whose company is the dominant EMR player in the US health-care market.

The firm’s Top 10 PAC recipients are all Democratic or lefty outfits, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (nearly $230,000) to the DNC Services Corp. (nearly $175,000) and the America’s Families First Action Fund super-PAC ($150,000).

Faulkner, an Obama campaign-finance bundler, served as an adviser to David Blumenthal.

He’s the White House health-information-tech guru in charge of dispensing the EMR subsidies that Faulkner pushed President Obama to adopt. Faulkner also served on the same committee Blumenthal chaired.

Cozy arrangement, that.

Epic and other large firms lobbied aggressively for nearly $30 billion in federal subsidies for their companies under the 2009 stimulus package. The law penalizes medical providers who fail to comply with the mandate.

Epic has been the subject of rising industry and provider complaints about its antiquated, closed-end system.

When Texas Health released its first statement on the software glitch in the Ebloa case, Jack Shaffer, a health-care-IT guru, quickly snarked on Twitter: “Guess Epic can’t share data even with itself!”

Until recently, health-care providers say, the company refused to share data with doctors and hospitals using alternative platforms. Now it charges exorbitant fees to enable the very interoperability the Obama EMR mandate was supposed to ensure.

In July, The Boston Globe reported that there is still “no safety oversight of the vendors who sell” EMR and EHR systems.

One malpractice-insurance group revealed that it found 147 cases “in which electronic health records contributed to ‘adverse events’ that affected patients” — 46 resulted in death.

Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) cited criticisms of Epic at a congressional hearing this summer and asked: “Is the government getting its money’s worth?

It may be time for the committee to take a closer look at the practices of vendor companies in this space, given the possibility that fraud may be perpetrated on the American taxpayer.” Not to mention the possibility of an impending Ebola epidemic.

The AMA president-elect, Dr. Steven Stack, told Modern Healthcare magazine this month that Epic’s software architecture “often leaves out key information and corrupts data in transit.”

Yikes. Imagine if some of that key data had to do with an Ebola carrier’s travel history. Oh, wait.