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Does anyone's employer use Epic systems? - good or bad?

Posted: Oct 15, 2012

Does anyone's employer use Epic systems? Our hospital is thinking of switching.

Then kiss your job goodbye. - anon

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Epic has taken over everything. Transcriptionist is no longer needed. Good luck to you.

What is EPIC? - Is it an EMR program

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EPIC - stormy

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I trained full-time for a month in a local hospital for part-time work ... was able to do that for about 3 weeks before EPIC came on board, which had been planned for over a year, apparently. Within 2 days of the startup we went from having thousands of jobs to under 500 and by the end of that week all 15 transcriptionsts (working from home) were put on 3-4 hour rotations in order for them to have ANY work at ALL. I was resource so was given no opportunity to work at all and I gave my notice 2 months later. They wouldn't even allow me to do a couple reports a day just to "keep my fingers in the pie" and also to not lose the skills I had learned about their transcription system.

My full-time job is for a hospital using Meditech. While it's not a "transcriptionist friendly" software, I'm SOOOO happy it isn't EPIC. A lot of transcriptionists are wondering "is there life after EPIC?" ... keep us posted!

Life after Epic - Anonymous

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I was a full-time on-site MT working in Epic. We had plenty of work although our volume was probably cut in half. My facility just laid all of us off, however, and sent the work to a company that offshores. Epic did open up some other opportunities for us, though, and I was able to transfer to another department doing something not related to MT. So to answer your question, there is life after Epic, but not in transcription.

Life after Epic - Curious

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Could you explain how your volume was cut in half due to Epic? Offshoring is not an option in my department, they can't even farm it out local and our med/surg is already outsourced. If you can share, what other kinds of jobs opened up for you.

Volume cut in half - Anonymous

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Our volume was cut in half because many of the reports could be templated. We lost operative reports altogether. Many of the providers use point and click and only need to dictate portions of a report instead of the entire thing. Some of them use Dragon and do their own editing. Now, all the dictation is done in Dragon and coverted from text to speech. They found a company with software compatible with ours as we never had the capability to do editing. Don't be so sure your work can't be offshored or outsourced. We never thought it could happen to us and it did. Now, there are abstracting and data migration jobs as well as jobs in record review, analysis and clinical documentation. I have a coding background so the transition was easy for me, I abstract and do record review. Someone asked what state I lived in; that's really a moot point as Epic is Epic anywhere you go. If your facility is converting, I would recommend finding work outside of MT or even a different temp job so you are not taken by surprise.

Thank you! - Curious

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Thank you everyone for answering. I'm sorry to hear it cost jobs. Those of you whose facilities were/are involved with Epic, can you tell me what state you are in? I'm IL.

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