EPIC Consultant Job Description
EPIC consultant
provides support to the Clinical Support/Informatics teams and Epic Revenue Cycle in the maintenance and improvement of Epic clinical applications.
EPIC Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Build and test BPAs, Order Sets, SmartSets, SmartForm, Extensions, Rules
Build, testing, implementation of Beacon protocols for adult standard of care, Pediatric standard of care and clinical trials
Provide expertise and consultation on best practice for Beacon pediatric protocols build
Participate on team meetings with subject matter experts from pharmacy, oncologists, nursing
Facilitate execution and validation of technical plan and application build between project team members and business owners
Develop understanding of current system build and workflows to assist with system impact assessment, design and development
Ensure test scenarios are adequately documented and perform functional, unit, and integrated testing as needed
Support IT Education team with development of training content and guidelines for clinical stakeholders
Review and analyze managed care contracts
Prepare Epic billing matrix build documents
EPIC Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for EPIC Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CEE, PB, HB, PACS
Education for EPIC Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the EPIC consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and University Degree in Computer Science, Business, Business/Administration, Education, Technical, Information Systems, Public Health, Finance, Healthcare, Health
Skills for EPIC Consultant
Desired skills for EPIC consultant include:
Epic EMR and the full implementation lifecycle of Epic’s suite of EMR applications
Radar
Best practices in Ambulatory build
Change management
Deployment/release protocols
EHR system functionality
Software functionality
Primary AWS services
DNS
DHCP
Desired experience for EPIC consultant includes:
5+ years’ experience in Revenue Cycle Management and the ability to demonstrate industry expertise and consultative characteristics when working with customers and providing problem resolution
5+ Eligibility and benefits technical and business experience required, including working knowledge of EDI, transaction clearinghouse technologies, and ability to understand payer benefits transactions (270/271)
Requires certification of EPIC modules, include RTE, Prelude, and ADT systems
Requires strong decision-making skills, analytical skills with ability to analyze reports and interpret data, and prepare information to be delivered to customers
Requires excellent verbal/listening and written communication skills at all levels of a customer’s organization
Experience presenting information to large and small groups
EPIC Consultant Examples
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EPIC Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of EPIC consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for EPIC consultant
- Rounding in the clinics/departments, answering questions, reviewing workflows and looking for opportunities to enhance the use of EPIC
- Assisting clinics and providers in meeting requirements for Meaningful Use, PCMH, SIM, ENSW, CPC+
- Acting as a liaison between the clinic/dept
- Identifying and coordinating provider customization of EPIC, training nerds, optimization and report requests
- Assisting with the on-boarding and off-boarding of providers
- Assisting with EPIC upgrades
- Rotating regularly on the Clinic Help Desk
- Collaborates with end users in the most efficient use of installed systems and upgrades
- Consults and teams with clinic/dept staff to design, train, and reinforce workflow
- Works with other resources to help ensure I.T
Qualifications for EPIC consultant
- Demonstrated ability to conceive, plan and manage team-based projects
- Demonstrated ability to conduct, apply and interpret quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Excellent skills in critical thinking and analysis, facilitative meeting leadership, verbal and written communications, and interpersonal interactions (e.g., partnering, conflict management, negotiating skills, consulting)
- Proficient with PC applications including database, spreadsheet, word processing, presentation software and graphics packages
- Prior progressively more complex responsibilities and accountabilities in large systems environment preferred
- Minimum five (5) years programming in SAS required
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking to fill the role of EPIC consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for EPIC consultant
- Be able to develop visual, actionable analytical reporting dashboard solutions
- Write queries from scratch across the gamut of Epic Clarity tables and some Caboodle data models
- Quickly assimilate the inventory of existing self-service analytics solutions so you can add unique new knowledge and not re-invent knowledge already developed
- Adhere to the SDLC methodology, and develop output with a similar look and feel of the established templates and style
- Respect for and collaboration with peers and customers is paramount
- Ability to enhance current processes and templates is welcome if it progresses toward the best of class analytics and management vision
- Work in Epic Ambulatory applications
- Build Epic related functionality such as BPAs, Order Sets, SmartSets, SmartForms, Extensions, Rules
- Participate in detailed integrated testing of various Epic functionality
- Perform in-depth workflow analysis, data collection, report details and other technical issues associated with Epic software
Qualifications for EPIC consultant
- Epic Clarity Data Model - Resolute Hospital and Professional Billing - Experience strongly preferred
- Experience with and understanding of challenges which may arise in global learning situations
- Currently certified in Epic (multiple Epic certifications preferred)
- Apply workflow designs to implementation build
- Requires working in a collaborative environment with the Epic Support and other Epic implementation teams
- Devises or modifies procedures to solve complex problems considering software application limitations, operating time, and form of desired results
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Our growing company is looking for an EPIC consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for EPIC consultant
- Responsible for proactively identifying, researching, testing and implementing enhancement and optimization to technology, workflows, capabilities and processes
- Serve as a technical liaison with client teams, clinical teams, and vendor teams
- Participate in creation and delivery of end-user training materials
- Participate in detail oriented document creation and/or optimization related to workflows, testing, build
- Join project team meetings
- Directly support EHR built, support, testing, and management activities as needed
- Serve as expert in areas and uses engagements to advance own knowledge
- Be the point of contact and daily management leader for client peers and team members
- Build Epic related functionality such as BPAs, Order Sets, SmartSets, SmartForms, Extensions, Rules, etc
- Participate in detail oriented document creation and/or optimization related to workflows, testing, build, etc
Qualifications for EPIC consultant
- Must be Epic PB and Epic PB Claims Certified
- Minimum two years Epic PB and Epic PB claims Build/implementation experience
- Epic Mammography build experience is desired, but not required
- Prefer experience with Epic upgrades/testing with special consideration for 2015 – 2016 build
- Prelude Certified preferred
- Bridges Certified preferred
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Job Description Example
Our company is looking for an EPIC consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for EPIC consultant
- Lead process workflow design for both testing and validation contracts
- Lead the contract design and build using Epic tools
- Build/train/advise on necessary management reporting & working reports from Epic dashboard reports for contract tool
- Develops complex operational and project-related reports including analysis, design, documentation, versioning development, configuration, testing, implementation and ongoing support for Epic Clarity-based reporting
- Receives and documents formal requests from customer including specifications (layout, calculations, data source, ) Evaluates requests for completeness and if needed works with customer to finalize request
- Provides technical direction, guidance and assistance during project development and accomplish all required formal sign-offs
- Designs and documents the general functional requirements and detailed technical specifications for a report
- Assists with Epic upgrades/updates by serving as a subject matter expert for the Epic Clarity data models
- Implements reports/database software in an optimal manner to minimize the effect on production and development activities
- Ability to troubleshoot technical issues with reports, including reviewing scripts and database issues
Qualifications for EPIC consultant
- Preferred experience in Cadence, Prelude, HOV, Membership, Resolute
- Preferred experience in Bridges interface and Benefits
- Experience in building consulting practice or service line within a consulting practice, preferably with experience consulting for Epic application
- Prior progressively more complex responsibilities and accountabilities in large systems environment
- Cross-cultural background or experience
- Three to five years of broad spectrum clinical, operational and technical experience
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for an EPIC consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for EPIC consultant
- Develops, supports and maintains all required system design and build documents and other system documentation
- Provides support of application incidents reported through the help desk
- Adheres to organization standards for system configuration and change control
- Develops strong relationships with end user communities, customers and business partners
- Attends, participates in, and contributes to meetings throughout the facility
- Troubleshoots and/or resolves application issues and escalates more complex issues as appropriate
- The Report Writer may create new reports, using third party report writing tools to display Clarity data
- Provide Epic product function, design, build, and testing expertise and experience for assigned Epic module related to EpicCare Ambulatory
- Collaborate with end users to design and build the Epic system in a timely and professional manner and make corrective configuration or enhancements
- Lead small to medium complexity Epic software upgrade initiatives or enhancements to workflows including the design, build, and test phases
Qualifications for EPIC consultant
- A certification in one of Epic’s primary applications (EpicCare Ambulatory, EpicCare Inpatient, OpTime, Willow, Stork, ASAP, Resolute Billing, Prelude/ADT, Cadence) Certification does NOT need to be current
- Clinical licensure/background desired
- Coordinating Projects & People
- Eligible to work as an Epic consultant, unrestricted by any existing non-compete or non-solicitation agreements
- Full cycle implementation and optimization experience
- Current certification in Cadence, ADT, HIM, Resolute Hospital Billing, Resolute Professional Billing or Tapestry