Background : MD ( awaiting medical residency training) . Have used epic in the past as a part of clinical teams in USA.

I'm looking for temporary 'go live' elbow support jobs that are 2 weeks or so. Can Travel

Anyone can give me info on what trainings I need to do or...should I just apply via recruiters and they will tell me what training to do?

Thanks!

Hello,

To give some context about my background, I'm a career changer who went back to school for a post-baccalaureate in computer science (second bachelor's). I am now in the process of changing to a dual bachelor's/master's program, where my master's will be in Data Science and Analytics. I know I don't need it, but it has always been an interest of mine, and the dual program offers a nice discount.

I work full time at a FinTech company; my previous role was at a credit repair company where I did data entry.

My goal is to get a data analyst role and then hopefully pivot into a data engineer or data scientist after graduation or after gaining some experience as a data analyst.

I'm constantly reading about how important domain knowledge is, but what about when you want to switch industries? How do you gain that domain knowledge when you've never worked in healthcare?

I asked a similar question before in r/HealthInformatics, and a hiring director told me that my resume would always be at the bottom of the list since I lack healthcare or clinical experience, even with a health informatics master's (which I was considering at the time).

It was honestly discouraging to read about. It just feels like I'm stuck in a industry simply because it was the first job that was willing to pay me minimum wage right after my first bachelor's.

I’ve had two separate recruiters reach out with contract roles. I’ve done contract work for coding. In that environment, they throw you in and have immediate day one expectations of excellence. I’ve seen people destroy their career prospects by taking contract roles and failing miserably. A good portion of the contract employees are idiots. Is that the same for HIT? Should I not waste anyone’s time? Or would it be a good opportunity to get some experience officially on paper?

Hello everyone

I've been in the healthcare/IT space for about 30 years, and I've had plenty of dealings with HIPAA from a software engineering standpoint, as well as general operations - even worked for a startup that exposed PHI on Google years ago. However, I've not ever been responsible for creating the roadmap and implementation of policies, procedures, and controls soup to nuts.

I'm currently working for a very small startup developing a cloud-based platform and we are at the point in our development process where we need to start putting all of the pieces together. I'm wondering if anyone here has had any experiences - good or bad - with the popular names out there - Vanta, Drata, Sprinto, Omelet, etc. Most all of them claim to provide what almost appear to be turn key solutions, but I'd like to hear from folks who have gone through the process of implementation and are using or have used them.

One thing I'm curious about is at least one vendor references numbers in their controls that presumably map back to the most recent rules and regs, but I've yet to find an official source for those numbers. Perhaps they are internally to their automation tool.

Cross posting to r/HIPAA

Thanks!

Hello! I’m a graduate student based in California. I have just one more year left in my program and would really like to do an internship in Health Informatics/analytics before I graduate. I was wondering if anyone is currently hiring or know any companies that are ? I have been applying on LinkedIn, but haven’t had any luck.

Thank you all in advance.

I am doing a research project on patient survey outcomes for hospitals depending on their EHR but I am struggling to find a publicly available Hospital list that has the type of EHR as a field. There are a few options that want me to pay (i.e. DefinitiveHealthcare) but I thought I would see if anyone knows where I can find this data outside of scraping a few not comprehensive websites?

Greetings Reddit~

How are Epic Analyst staffing levels at your company? Are you fully staffed or is everyone running things with a skeleton crew? I'm wondering if this is just the norm or if my workplace is uniquely understaffed. I am completely burnt out and haven't taken a vacation since July. 🙃

To port data from NextGen to a cloud datalake, it looks like there's an API, but possibly a SQL database that can be used as well?

Are both of these methods available for NextGen Enterprise and NextGen Office or just one of them?

I’m an ERP admin that is applying to the above position. I have no experience with epic itself but have IT experience.

I honestly have no clue what to expect for questions in the IT healthcare industry, especially for epic systems.

Anyone with experience with this, please give me some and advice and write some questions I should expect in an interview like this

Thanks!

Hello all,

I am graduating from college at the end of the year with an associates degree in Computer Information Systems. I currently work for a hospital that uses EPIC as a Unit Assistant and I am very much interested in EPIC certifications, EHR, Willow and Resolute. To my understanding of the process, I need to be sponsor from the hospital in order for me to get these certifications but I dont know where to begin. I have reached out to my PCD, HR, IT, Epic support team and all said they dont know.....I am super confuse on what to do next, I feel like my options is running slim. My next steps, I am going to reach out to Epic to get any information. But before I do,

I would like to ask what steps do you guys take in order for you to get your certifications?

Did you go on workday and start taking classes? ( for me none show up as available )

Who did you contact?

What are the requirements?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

EDIT - I figured out what to do and going forward I will do the self study proficiencies. Also, as per my degree I am going for my bachelor’s so I can have better opportunities. I will reach out the IT department and ask if there is any summer internships in my desire field of work (EHR). If not, I’ll go to my school career center. Thank you all for the information, greatly appreciated.

Work in healthcare, and we are reviewing middleware to integrate nursecall systems to messaging solutions.

I notice that these things(Engage, Connexall, etc) are all just business rules engines slapped onto old hospital protocols(SIP, HL7 og, TAP). They all tout FDA 510k class 2, but reading the FAQs on FDA's site, they don't actually test the claims of the products. Looking through the company filings on FDA site, I don't even see any kind of lab tests mentioned in there, with any data.

Is it just me or does it seem like a farce?

I don't want to be paying for a business rules engine with half of the features of a commercial business rules engine. When the only thing they'd really need to do is protocol translation.

I will admit I don't know everything about this space, so I am asking to see if you guys/gals can chime in, if you have experience.

I should also add, that they're all claiming to be secondary only, meaning they are not to be relied upon to work all the time.

We’re doing a diabetes audit and we’ve got no idea where we add diagnosis date in the chart for it to pull into a flow sheet. Any thoughts?

Looking to speak with senior RCM folks at USA based health systems. Paid 60 minutes online discussion on automation possibilites in RCM value chain. This is to build a product roadmap for a RCM tool. Reach out if eligibile & interested.

Currently a nurse at a huge organization that is planning to go live within 2 years or less. I applied for an analyst role, was invited to take the Sphinx test. Then I had the HR Interview that went so well… she was able to add to another epic module role under my name. Fast forward to today, I had an interview with the director of the department. It was only 30 mins long and very informal and honestly it felt more like a conversation than an interview. The director told me about the timeline then practically asked me three standardizes interview questions. He liked that I had experience and appreciated the questions I asked at the end. I’m hoping I get the job.

That’s it.

That’s the post.

No questions just wishful thinking.

Has anyone tried to connect a third party system to Veradigm EHR? They are requiring a thumbprint to be derived from a crt file, which I have, but when I generate a token and try to call the api. I get an error that says that the client is invalid. I am using the client id that they give me. I am able to authenticate using my username and password approach, but this does not work if you are looking to connect a third party application. Does anyone have any experience with this or a postman collection they can share with scripts they have used that works? Thank you! They are worse than trying to connect to epic FHIR and their support can't seem to help me.

I recently applied for the Associate Application Analyst position and recently graduated from college. I was scheduled for the second round of interviews, and the manager will interview me.

I have hands-on experience in healthcare IT and carelogic EHR, and the hospital uses EPIC. I've worked on EHR system implementation, improving user interfaces, and training staff to use new systems effectively. I contributed to projects like patient portal implementation, eMAR setup, and optimizing healthcare workflows. I am skilled at troubleshooting technical issues, collaborating with diverse teams, and ensuring new systems meet hospital needs to enhance patient outcomes. I've done this at a mid-small mental hospital in which I interned.

Does anyone know of a tool I can use to export all my medical bills from MyChart and my insurance company? Would be looking for a spreadsheet with all the information around a claim that both companies have - type of appointment, date, doctor's name, $ cost, $ covered by insurance, $ left in deductable, $ left in OOP etc.

Does this exist?

In light of current events the NIH's PubMed is looking awfully vulnerable. I am guessing I can't be the only person to have had that thought. I'm thinking about grabbing a copy, since they so nicely offer FTP of their whole corpus in XML with a DTD, while it lasts.

I have a hazy sense that once I have it, I should parse the XML into a MySQL or PostgreSQL db (or maybe a noSQL datastore?), and then whip up a little web interface to make it usable, and figure out something to do about search, but I kind of don't know what I'm doing here from an information science standpoint. Are there any FOSS implementations of uh, I don't even know what I'm looking for, a catalogue? An academic journal db app? Something with a nice UI for the users and the right fields to parse the data into and maybe a search solution that I can just pour the data into? Have any of you already done this? Do you have any implementation advice?

Hi everyone, As stated in the title, I work in health information management but I want to get into healthcare IT. I just signed up for the epic certification virtually. I have my associates and will have my bachelors in HIM in a few months. I’m planning to take the RHIA as well. Any advice for getting into healthcare IT and any jobs my experience may be qualified for? Should I get any other certificates besides Epic? What is a minimum salary for someone working full time in healthcare IT?

I know this has been very frustrating for my practice and I can only imagine it has been frustrating for other practices as well. But it would be amazing if Athena EHR would automatically load the correct copays for visits based on either the benefits pulled from the insurance loaded or based on the insurance eligibility page “copay field appointment class type” as compared to the appointment class type for each appointment type selected for individual appointments.

This would be a huge help for preventive visits such as well child checks so that our staff would not be prompted to collect a copay for those visits.

There is an open “idea” aka suggestion on the Athena O-Help support community from 2018 that has comments as recent as 2024 but has limited votes and it could use more votes and comments from other practices to hopefully get this change implemented. I have linked the “O-Help” community post below for anyone who would like to vote and comment.

https://success.athenahealth.com/s/idea/0870f000000Qje6AAC/detail

I work in clinical informatics with Epic. One part of what I do is have one on one training sessions with providers. I would like to eventually document and track all the sessions I’ve done (who, speciality, date/time, and no shows). I log these in Signal but would like to document and track for myself.

Also, I get support emails that eventually turn into little projects that get analysts, training and informatics involved. I want to eventually document the meetings and action items. Some can track this through tickets on unite but since I’m not an analyst, I just log them to an excel spreadsheet.

I am looking for ideas on how to document and track all of this- time spent on:

• learning or refreshing epic basics or new functionalities

• making notes/videos and tip sheets for myself

• after meetings, I use dragon to speak dictate my notes and add them to one note. This is a smaller way of tracking the tasks i do and minutes spent. Apparently, Microsoft teams has a transcribe feature but it’s restricted in our organization. It would be SO NICE to have some sort of software to record and summarize all my meeting notes.

I eventually want to document all of my work and tasks I’ve done to create a quantitative report that shows my boss where I spend my time on. He’s a numbers guy and this would be the best way to show him my work behind the results.

Any suggestions? Or format suggestions?

My report shows TAT in seconds, how do I convert into minutes within the report?

I just found out one of my coworkers is using email to stay organized, so I’m curious about how others stay organized. I personally use OneNote with each large project having a different notebook, a main notebook for team updates, and a system of sticky notes on my desk for smaller tasks.

Hello, I am just looking for some details about the EPIC ambulatory module that is utilized by healthcare organizations. I’m job hunting and want to know as much as I can about the different modules so I can do well in interviews and be able to communicate how my current role as a clinician would fit into this module / IT.

For example : I understand ClinDoc and how it covers in patient charting / workflow etc. I’d like to know ambulatory and what workflows it can cover.

Thank you for the help!

Im looking to create a report to track when a particular flowsheet is fillid out. I have access to Clarity and Caboodle, as well as other Cogito tools. I found the flowsheet with the necessary info, but dont have the option to open record viewer and control clicking didnt work either. I poked around in the Clarity DataDictionary and found a table that lists flowsheets called FLOWSHEET, but couldnt find the particular flowsheet I was interested in. Does anyone know where the flowsheet data lives or how I can find it? Thank you

I have a bachelors in GIS, and have a few years of experience in the field. However, for the past five years I’ve been in healthcare IT in mostly training and analyst roles on the health system side and vendor side.

I want to get a masters, but I’m at a fork in the road and not sure which way to go. Maybe either option is bad and I should do something else!

So I’m here for advice! I’ve thrown together some pros and cons to help out.

Health Informatics

Pros:

Great pay.

Health systems are everywhere and remote work is very available.

Cons:

EHRs are boring, working with providers can be tedious, and everything is right now (which is understandable).

Lack of clinical background creates limitations. Old adage of you can teach someone clinical IT, but it’s harder to teach someone in IT to be clinical.

Lack of clinical background also generates a lack of interest and makes be feel like an untreatable goober when working with clinical staff.

Above factors make me question longevity.

Stress and anxiety.

GIS

Pros:

Genuine interest in geography, natural resources, finding answers with spatial data, etc etc

Makes me feel unique and special lol.

Cons:

Pay varies a lot and is generally less than healthcare IT. Niche industry creates limitations as well.

Significantly fewer remote opportunities and employment is more location dependent.

Lack of strong CS knowledge may create employment limitations. I’ve always been bad at anything more than very basic Python.

Lack of specific industry knowledge may create limitations (biology, environmental stuff, city planning, etc)

I feel like my comparisons are con heavy, but the pros feel very impactful on quality of life.

Thanks for all the input, opinions, etc!

Hospital Systems are going into the new year and US Presidency very cautiously. A lot of systems are freezing new hires or slowing the process down until they see how new legislation might impact reimbursement.

So, be forewarned.

I FINALLY landed a role I've been aiming at for a long time. I haven't started yet, but I'm really focused on maximizing the opportunity. Here's some info:

The job - Clinical Informatics Specialist at a mid-sized regional system, will be assigned to depts based on need and experience, typically partnered with a traditional Epic analyst for build/technical expertise, sponsors Epic certs (given a choice on which ones between 4-5 needed), they currently have needs in "hospital at home" and telemedicine areas, among others that I don't know yet, half the team are RNs the rest are a variety of clinical folks (pharm, PT, MD, social work, etc.)

Me - RN, MS in nursing informatics, bedside and leadership experience in behavioral health, home health, inpatient cardiology, around 5 years of informatics-adjacent experience but not really a traditional role (currently work for a software vendor).

I'd love to hear any info on things like selecting Epic certs that are useful but also interesting to work in. I'd also love to hear really any insight or advice you'd be willing to share. Thanks in advance!

Hello, I am currently working towards an Epic proficiency to eventually be an Epic Analyst. I have a chance to get a bachelors degree free and I’m wondering if I should pick MIS or IT. Thank you!