No your calendar isn't off: Epic UGM 18 kicks off about a month earlier this year than previous years. The conference begins on August 27, 2018 and ends on August 30, 2018. Executives, directors, clinical staff, and others with a strategic focus in Epic are invited to attend this event in Verona, Wisconsin that attracts close […]
ServiceNow, a fast-growing leader in IT Service Management (ITSM), is rapidly expanding its footprint in health care. Many hospitals use the company’s cloud-based IT service and operations platform to automate management of EHR applications and other clinical software assets. ServiceNow’s HR Delivery product is also widely used by hospital Human Resources departments. NJ-based startup […]
Every year, HIMSS and Dice release surveys on compensation and salaries for professionals in the technology and healthcare IT industries. We’ve pulled the most interesting information from these surveys to understand the state of tech salaries in 2018. Find out who is making the most money in the industry and the skills they have. Below […]
While building out my team of Epic trainers at a past implementation, one of my best hires was a Nursing Manager from inside the organization. She had no formal background in software training, but her clinical knowledge and understanding of nursing workflows, combined with her natural communication and teaching skills, made her an outstanding trainer. […]
“I'm not sure there's such thing as a ‘typical’ Go Live,” says Delena Brockmann, Executive Director of the Oconee Health Campus at Piedmont Athens Regional in Athens, Georgia. When the cutover occurs, facilities transitioning to a new electronic medical records system are abuzz with activity and consultants and lots of questions from providers and staff. […]
Have you heard the joke about the guy who sleeps like a baby every night? You know, he wakes up every two hours crying. That's a pretty 'tired' punchline, but sleep loss is no laughing matter to the millions of Americans (at least 1 in 3 adults) who sleep fewer than 7 hours each night. Travel […]
When faced with a long list of competing priorities at work is your first instinct to check your Facebook feed or head out to lunch? Yup, you are a procrastinator. Almost all of us procrastinate sometimes—putting off a difficult task by substituting another activity that may be more enjoyable or distracting. But a reported 20 […]
As a past Epic training manager and current consultant to hospitals that implement training programs, one of my critical responsibilities is hiring. A new Epic implementation requires an influx of training personnel to teach users about their new system, and that means looking at a lot of resumes to find capable new hires for the […]
When we first introduced our blog readers to Pam, she was a freshly-minted Epic consultant starting her very first assignment. Her advice to other new consultants ranks as one of our most read posts. Now Pam has over a year and a half of consulting experience and a couple of client projects under her belt. So […]
As a HIT consultant and road warrior, organizational skills are a key to your success. But one of your simplest organizing tasks can also be one of the most vexing: receipt management. No one likes completing expense reports. It’s a job that is made that much more frustrating by the daily accumulation of receipts of […]
Change management is a critical—and often misunderstood—component of most Epic implementations, and indeed, most software projects. If you’re an Epic Build Analyst, you may not think about change management much, except when it seems like an annoyance. But understanding and working effectively with the change management team is a huge part of being an Epic […]
Completing an Epic certification is a great milestone, but it’s not the finish line in terms of your Epic education. Until recently, New Version Training (NVT) was the primary requirement for continuing your Epic learning and retaining your certification in a given application. But new requirements—issued near the end of 2016—update the Continuing Epic Education […]