I am currently a PACS Coordinator and am close to qualifying for the CIIP (1 CE credit away). What is the best course(s) to take in order to get my 1 point of CE credits? All the courses I have looked into so far are expensive and I want to find one that isn’t too pricey. I just need the 10 hours of continuing education before I take the test.

Long story short, I've been employed in healthcare IT for over a decade, I'm looking for a new job before my current one potentially goes away, and I'm undecided about remaining in healthcare IT - mainly trying to avoid the type of on-call that comes along with directly supporting physicians and hospital systems 24/7.

I'm currently a wearer-of-many-hats for a small radiology group. My main responsibilities are HL7 interface dev and support for our RIS and PACS systems, along with some sysadmin and network related stuff as well as basic helpdesk responsibilities and an on-call rotation. Prior to that I was in a data analyst role (though still with the helpdesk responsibilities) with the same company.

I'm very familiar with Corepoint/Rhapsody and Mirth for HL7. Great with Merge PACS, passing familiar with Fuji, minimal experience with Epic. I have a ton of SQL skills, decent sysadmin skills/knowledge, enough firewall knowledge to troubleshoot issues.

I've been leaning away from healthcare and trying to emphasize my SQL or sysadmin skills, but money-wise it seems that focusing on HL7 might be the way to go. Has anyone else here been in a similar situation?

Hi there! Long story short and as the title says, I'm making a career pivot from the tech industry as a Product Manager and am looking to become an Epic applications analyst.

I've managed to land an admin role at a hospital that uses Epic. How can I maximize my time towards educating myself and landing that eventual analyst position?

I'm assuming that I'll have access to resources that will allow me to learn new modules. Are there any that I can note down as must haves?

TIA

I'm a ward clerk wondering what I should pursue next to earn a little more and take on more of an interesting role in my hospital. I'm currently employed at three different hospitals and have no inkling of an idea as to what I should look into next. As a ward clerk, is it absurd for me to look into health informatics as a next career step?

Hi all,

Current Epic TS here. For various reasons, I'm thinking about making a career switch to something with more self-employment opportunities. I hate to throw away the knowledge and experience I've gained here at Epic, as well as time spent, but I just haven't seen that this industry is going to support my lifestyle.

There's some good remote opportunities here, which is why I've stayed, but the industry seems like it's dominated by large, inflexible corporations and health systems. My understanding is that if I want to offer services independently to a health system, I would have to go through a recruitment or consulting firm. That's just not the level of freedom and ownership over my work I am looking for.

I want to make a gut check with this sub. What opportunities have you seen for self-employment? If you have similar knowledge skills, and attempted to maximize your personal independence over money, how did it go?

Hello everyone, | 22m was able to finally get an entry level job within my hospital. It's for an Associate product and service analyst in the rev cycle billing department. My goal is to become a certified epic analyst. The organization is expected to implement Epic next year. I took this opportunity because I want to build relationships within the company and thought it would be a great way to get one step closer to become an epic analyst. My new manager didn't imply too much about how my role would play a part in the new migration but i know i will be acting as a support for the current system in billing. I plan to get my mba with the company's tuition assistance while in this role then possibly after a year or two move up. If anyone is familiar with my role or had experience in my department, what should I start doing or work toward so I can become an epic analyst. I am very excited about this opportunity and the future.

I'm currently the only healthcare data analyst at a private practice. I'm kind of unsure how to advance in terms of skills to eventually move to a more established role as a healthcare data analyst. I had an "in" and I've been able to pretty much work on anything to improve the efficiency of the practice.

Currently, my focus has been with the billing department and streamlining the billing cycle (researching new ways to automate eligibility checks, claims status checks, etc). I've created some automated reports to make sure all patients have a corresponding charge in our system using Python with Pandas which has saved the practice a decent amount of revenue. I've also used Python to help compile some reports that my manager requests (we don't have an SQL server).

I've also worked on automating the processing of hand-written checks using Microsoft Azure AI Document Intelligence to speed up the process of manually posting checks.

I've also worked with our scheduling team to make sure we're maximizing our revenue when it comes to insurance regulations. For example, a certain test will only be paid for every 180 days, and we were scheduling patients for that test after 177 days.. and then we wouldn't get paid for it (so basically making sure different teams are on the same page).

Other than these projects, can you guys suggest anything else I might be able to work on? Any metrics to measure? It's a little more difficult in my opinion since we aren't as established as a hospital. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks.

Has anyone transitioned from an Epic analyst role supporting a clinical module to a non clinical module? For example going from ASAP or Clin Doc to Cadence? Looking to see if long term, this is a disadvantage in future role opportunities and pay?

I currently work as desktop support at a hospital. In January I am completing one last online course to earn my bachelor's degree in business administration, concentration in MIS. This should open up some doors for me especially because I work for a large healthcare network with multiple hospitals and a corporate office, and they are known for hiring internally (I know a cybersecurity engineer who started out as a sitter).

Lately I've been interested in an Epic analyst role but I have no clinical background. Would it be worth it to get CNA training and work part-time to get experience, or is that unnecessary?

Hello,

I’m being considered for a remote Epic Analyst position at UPMC. I have 3 years of experience with a different healthcare system in PA as an epic analyst, but am considering jumping ship for a change of scenery and increase in pay.

I’ve seen a lot of conflicting things online about UPMC from both pts perspective, and workers perspective, including IT workers.

I’m curious if anyone here has worked with/for UPMC as an epic analyst and would be willing to talk to me about your experiences.

Thanks!

Does anyone do Epic ADT, if so how is it and what do you do on the day to day basis

Hello, all. On Monday, I have an interview for an Epic Care Analyst position titled Order Set Coordinator. The job listing specifies that the role's "primary responsibility will be to support the Epic Beacon Chemo Protocols from inception to completion with ongoing maintenance afterwards". It also mentions that additional experience with Probation Order Sets is preferred; from a quick Google search, this appears to be a clinical documentation suite.

I've been a pharmacy technician since 2005. Six and a half years at retail chain pharmacies, followed by five years at an independent compounding pharmacy, then just under two years working for a health system in the outpatient and inpatient pharmacies and ATU (warfarin) clinic. For the past five years I've been one of the principal system admins working on a new warehouse focused on pharmacy services for the same health system - lots of software support, build, maintenance, and troubleshooting with the inventory warehouse management system that our company chose.

Given that I have no clinical experience working in oncology, I'm wondering if anyone out there might have some words of advice to help me try prepping for this interview. It was scheduled Wednesday afternoon and I have a 2-month old baby at home so haven't had much chance to wrap my head around it; wasn't expecting the call, to be honest.

They have my resume so presumably they aren't concerned about the lack of oncology experience (although they might have an expectation that I trained in the sterile lab to make compounds at the hospital, which I never was trained on). It was also presented as a ”30-minute phone screening interview" so I'm assuming at the moment this is more of a vibes/culture check, e.g., could we all work together well.

Appreciate any thoughts you fine folks might have. Thank you.

Hey, hope you having a great morning! I was just curious for the people who work remotely, any advice/tips to find remote roles more frequently? I come from more of a IT background (Scrum Master/Cloud/IT/AI) currently do Travel Epic Go-Lives and was actually blessed with an opportunity:Appointment Scheduling (Cadence/Remote) for the past month or so. However, this role is coming to an end shortly.

This role did show me how much more effective I am in a remote role and how much more I do enjoy it. I’m blessed regardless, but was wondering the steps I would need to take to solidify more remote roles preferably making $65k+? Feel free to add any certifications I would need and level of difficulty. I just kinda want to know the “blueprint” to map out how to go about it. When I first started doing Epic I wasn’t aware of how much potential it truly has if you actually put effort to level up, especially with me being 24 I think I can really do something big in this field. Thanks!

Saw a job posting for ochin health but never heard of them. Anyone heard/worked for this company before?

I make 75k with 2 years experience but have no idea if that’s good or bad

MCLA

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Hi

To keep the long story short,

I have 2 years experience in identity access management/ access governance I’ve worked for financial and federal environments with a wide range within my tech stack.

I’m unsure how to enter healthcare because it seems like you need Epic experience, which you can’t get unless you’re already working at a hospital. How does ones make the switch to healthcare IT?

What badges or knowledge tracks would you say helped you as a new(ish) analyst? My team currently has staff that have been tenured for a while and I’m one that’s brand new, had no prior epic build experience and I’m struggling with not knowing all the ins and outs of what I do. Im assigned tickets and given the cliffnotes of how to complete something but I’m just not confident yet. Ive been on the team for 2 years now but I think my teammates forget I have no background when they talk to me 😂 I search for things on galaxy like crazy but it’s only to help me with the task I’ve been given, not anything from start to finish.

Other than the Core Analyst Badge, what other FREE courses would be beneficial for a new analyst? Courses that would help make the implementation phase easier. My organization is transitioning to Epic. We are having our "Orientation Week" in January. I was sent to WI the end of October for my certification classes. My job right now is to study and make sure I get my certification by our orientation week. I finished my certification track last week (Ambulatory). I am also tasked to take Reporting-Objective Measures (Badge) and Urgent Care/Dermatology (Knowledge Tracks). I have completed the 2 tracks this week. With the badge, I have finished the prereq and class training companion. My class is not scheduled until mid Dec so I would like to wait until after the class before I take the exam. They sometimes hint as to what to focus on during classes. I basically have a lot of free time until our first week and was looking for things I could do/learn that would be beneficial in the long run. I do plan on going through all the training companions again and resubmitting all the projects at the end of December just to refresh my memory before we start.

My hospital is switching to Epic and I have the option to pick what I want to do. If you had the option, which module would you choose? I have little kids at home so I’m looking for a good work/life balance (I know this won’t happen during implementation).

•somewhere on a training team •epicCare inpatient (Stork, clinical documentation, rehab, behavioral health,rover) •ambulatory • registration

I'm an introvert who's interested in studying this degree in uni and am currently trying to get an insight of what this job will be like, if it'll suit me in the long term.

Hey, all! I am attempting to make a transition from clinical lab work into HIM and am currently working towards an HIM degree.

I recently got an email from a recruiter at my hospital that the HIM directorwould like to set up a first round interview with me. While I'm excited and have been trying to pivot from my role for over a year, I am nervous about my skillset and what is expected.

The job description mentions "working knowledge of SQL and HL7." I am doing a self study SQL course on datacamp but still have the very beginning phases completed. My resume mentions that I do not plan to finish this course until next year. My actual IT classes don't plan to start until next year as well although I do have extesnive medical terminology knowledge. The title is under "patient info navigator." Should I still move forward? Do any of you have experience with interviews of this position? Thank you

I've been a senior Certified pharmacy tech for 5 years and I recently got an AS in IT. I also have my A+. If I want to break into health IT, what are my next moves? I currently have no IT experience on paper.

I don't have a specific role in mind, I just enjoy healthcare and want my IT career to be in the field. Preferably a job with little to no coding, although I don't hate CLI work.

I'm a Medical Technologist working in a clinical lab for 5 years and I just need advice or insight on ways to transition out. I feel like I have tried a lot of ways and it just hasn't worked out. My original goal was to transition to a healthcare data analyst but it's been 4 years with a Google cert, healthcare data analyst cert, knowledge of SQL, power bi, excel and projects all under my belt and nothing. I even reached out to my data team at my current workplace to ask for advice and possibly shadow and they answered me nicely at first and then completely ghosted me.

I feel pretty stuck and have considered getting another cert but I feel it would just be a waste of time and money. I don't want to get a masters (although it almost seems like it is almost required at this point) but that's a lot money for me right now.

I am ellible for the ahima chda and or cca but idk if those will help me. And it seems the chda isn't really that useful? I don't really want to do coding but it would be a good stating place as I did have an intro to coding class in my health data cert.

Im possibly eligible for the cahims and it seems more doable than going through ahima. Not sure which one is more useful with getting a job.

I also looked into doing registrar work, and there was a trauma registrar position that I applied at my company, didn't get selected and reached out to the manager. Only to also be ghosted after showing some enthusiasm about me wanting to learn and or getting advice from her. Later they reopened the position including to other near by states.

I even reached out to my LIS team when we were switching from Cerner to Epic wanted to help and be part of it. Due to my schedule I wasn't contacted but now working almost full time they don't need anyone right now.

I enjoy working with data and getting to help behind the scenes. I'm currently doing data analysis for diagnos purposes. Can do quality assurance and quality control. It seems like other people are also having a hard time getting into a data field. But any advice it highly appreciated. Networking seems like a hit or miss for some. My current company probably has a bad view of lab, that's why I'm not getting anywhere reaching out to them.

Thank you for reading this far.

Hello! Please insert a standard "I hope this is the right place" dialogue. I work Front Desk for an Outpatient facility that uses EPIC/Hyperspace, and have a question that I'm seeking help with to try and be more efficient with the patient paperwork we print every day.

Among other things, Front Desk prints out visit labels for patients scheduled on any given day. There are multiple providers, each with a daily workload, and we give each of those providers SIX patient labels for each appointment / patient. So if a provider has 20 patients in a day, six labels for each patient totals 120. Pretty easy concept!

The trouble is, we have to do this manually. We do all our front desk work here through Hyperspace. To print these labels, we have to click "Print Forms" on every patient - one at a time - print the six labels, then exit that patient to go onto the next one. This is time consuming.

What we'd LIKE to do is select all the patients, then hit a single button (or a few clicks) to print ALL patients' six labels. Local help has not had a clue. Does anyone know if this is something that can be done in EPIC? Thanks for any assistance!

Title, the position:

https://www.intersystems.com/careers/careers-search/?gh_jid=6205949003

They asked for a PI/PET Interview, looks like some sort of online assessment.

Background: I'm a Paramedic/Dispatcher & Have worked in Business Intelligence for the past 4 years, Also led some Health IT projects (Not EPIC/Cerner but made from scratch mostly to manage healthcare referrals/Quality reviewing).

Background: MSc Healthcare Informatics, BSc Paramedic, 10 years experience.

Stack: Python/JS (Frontend/Backend), PG/MongoDB/SQLite/Redis/MSSQL. Sveltekit (Frontend Framework).

I have mainly worked on reports, automation, and built some stuff on the side, are there any resources or languages/resources I need to learn beforehand?

Thank you!

I have been working in healthcare IT for over 20 years with 10 years managing Dicom routing software and different types of enterprise archive systems from GE centricity Aquarius Tera recon, and Merge PACs using them as a VNA as well as managing hl7 engine called mirth. My question is how hard would it be to take on the epic certification? I recently was given the opportunity and they will do training but wanted to know what am I getting into?

I am a physician and burgeoning informaticist who works in a specialty outpatient clinic. We use a lot of specialty medications that require prior authorizations. Currently my nurses are mostly in charge of these. We receive them in three different systems. One is through fax, which is the most common, but also directly through epic and cover my meds. Checking all three of these systems plus the volume we receive, there is a ton of time wasted on this. I was curious how I could start looking into forcing all of these to at least be electronic and eliminating the faxes? Is there a third-party platform with an API etc.

Hi Everyone,

I’m working on integrating Open Epic FHIR endpoints into a web application and I’m running into trouble to find the correct endpoint to POST Claim data Open Epic if they support it. I’m referencing the HL7 FHIR documentation here: HL7 FHIR Claim Documentation, but I’m still having difficulty finding this endpoint in Open Epic. Which endpoint should we use for the claim in Open Epic, is it ExplanationOfBenefit(Claim) or is there a claim request in Open Epic that is hidden?

Has anyone successfully posted data to this endpoint? Are there specific configurations or permissions I need to check to enable POST and PUT requests in Open Epic FHIR?

Any tips, resources, or advice on how to proceed would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!