Castle59

I would love a job as an Epic analyst. How do I get certified?

Your comments are interesting because I am trying to break into the Health IT field. I have a Bachelor's Degree in Nursing and over 25 years of experience which includes various clinical exposures (you do a lot of things in 25 years), Medical review, Medical Policy writing, and my most recent position was Research Analyst for a technology company. I really would like to be a part of the brave new world of leveraging IT to meet meaningful use requirements in the healthcare world. I am also a certified professional coder and have almost completed a HITECH role coorifice. My problem is that all of the companies such as Cerner, Epic, and Meditech requires that you have worked with their product before they will even consider you for hire. It is unlikely that I will be going back to work in a clinical setting which will give me the opportunity to use one of their products. It seems that the IT world has shut out the Health care part of "Health IT". We nurses, physicians, and other clinicians need to be involved in Health IT but slowly it seems that non-clinicians are taking over with no idea of what it means to provide nursing/medical care. Any advice on how I can secure a position as a Nurse consultant with Epic or a similar company?

YES!! This is the future of healthcare. Although you do not have very much nursing experience you have enough to venture into the field of Health IT. It would be ideal for you to enroll in one of the HITECH workforce certification programs. You should be a shoo in especially if you have worked using one of the EHR systems that are being implemented to comply with Meaninful USE as mandated by the Recovery Act of 2009.