Bri Healy
I currently work at Epic Systems in Verona, Wisconsin. Epic is an international healthcare software company that develops and maintains electronic medical records. I work with three US hospital systems to support the Inpatient Orders and Infection Control applications as a part of the technical services division at Epic. I work closely with these community member’s internal IT teams to support their inpatient physicians and infection preventionists. Additionally I assist with their regulatory reporting to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the National Healthcare Safety Network, a branch of the Centers for Disease Control. Internally I host bi-monthly technical webinars and work on code for diagnosis association.
Each workday is different. Depending on what my community members are doing at a given time I could spend part of my day building out a functionality, writing a search in M or SQL to pull data, troubleshooting/debugging code to determine why something may not be working as expected, or researching how I can use the software to achieve my customer’s unique wants and needs. I’ve had the opportunity to travel about one week per month to various community members. During these trips I work directly with IT analysts and/or clinical end-users to ensure the software is used as effectively and efficiently as possible so that there is less time spent charting and more time spent providing direct patient care.
At Saint Michael’s I received training to break down an issue or problem and logically work through steps to find a solution. This is exactly what I do on a daily basis in my work as a technical problem solver. More specifically, computer science courses taught me the basics of reading and writing code and statistics introduced me to the skills I now use for examining things such as the likelihood of a patient’s readmission or surgical infection rate models.
If you have any questions about my position or Epic, please feel free to reach out to me at bri@epic.com.
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