Epic OpTime is Epic's perioperative application for surgical and procedural care. It brings case scheduling, preoperative readiness, intraoperative documentation, supplies and implants, status tracking, charges, and reporting into a connected workflow for operating rooms and ambulatory surgery settings. OpTime is often used alongside Epic Anesthesia and other Epic clinical and revenue cycle applications. The exact […]
If your health system has been live on Epic for several years, you've probably had some version of this conversation. The CFO asks what the organization is getting from its Epic investment. The CMIO says clinicians are drowning in documentation. The IT director says the build queue is underwater. Everyone agrees something should change. Nobody can say, with evidence, what to fix first. Most tenured Epic […]
Not every healthcare AI job involves building a model. The field also needs people who understand clinical workflows, prepare reliable data, manage products, protect privacy, evaluate risk, and help new tools fit into everyday work. For most job seekers, the strongest path is to add practical AI knowledge to an established healthcare or technology specialty. […]
Epic Beaker is Epic's laboratory information system (LIS) for hospitals, clinics, patient service centers, and reference laboratories. It gives laboratory teams a place to manage orders, specimens, testing, results, and reports while keeping that information connected to the broader patient record. Beaker is commonly divided into two applications: Beaker Clinical Pathology (CP): Supports clinical laboratory workflows […]
Oracle Health Patient Accounting (OHPAC), also known as RevElate, is a major advancement in healthcare revenue cycle technology. Rather than forcing organizations to choose between a standalone patient accounting platform and a clinically integrated revenue cycle, OHPAC combines the strengths of both approaches. Dedicated patient accounting solutions, like OHPAC, allow for greater flexibility, scalability, and […]
The small town where I grew up had about 750 people and a county hospital. The hospital is gone now. The nearest emergency room sits more than 30 minutes away on a two-lane road. Since 2010, more than 200 rural facilities have closed or ended inpatient care. Mine was one of them. That experience is […]
There's a version of healthcare IT consulting that looks straightforward from the outside. A health system has a technology problem. A consulting firm has the expertise. Work gets done. The reality is considerably more complicated, and the gap between those two descriptions is where most consulting engagements either succeed or fall apart. I've spent my […]
There is no single Workday certification or universal public enrollment path. Your options depend on whether you work for a Workday customer, work for a Workday partner, or participate through an approved education or talent-development program. Start with the role you want, such as administrator, functional consultant, integration specialist, reporting analyst, or platform specialist. Then […]
A System Health Check is a structured, independent assessment of your live healthcare IT enterprise systems (EHR, ERP, WFM) and the business operations it is meant to support. Conducted by experienced consultants, it evaluates your current configuration, how the system is actually being used, and where gaps between system capability and operational reality are creating […]
I never imagined my most powerful lesson in healthcare IT would come from a hospital bed. During my high-risk pregnancy, I watched firsthand what it means when clinical technology works the way it should and understood what is at stake when it doesn’t. My son Jake was born at just four pounds but went home […]
In Part One, we shared the story behind our brand refresh and the belief that has guided Healthcare IT Leaders for 15 years: that healthcare only works with the right humans in the loop. In this second installment, we go deeper exploring the four service pillars that define how we show up for health systems, […]
Healthcare IT has never been short on complexity. New platforms. Mergers. Regulatory mandates. The relentless pressure to do more with tighter margins and thinner teams. And through all of it, one truth has held constant since we founded Healthcare IT Leaders in 2011: Healthcare only works with humans in the loop. It’s the reason we […]