Fully Optimize Epic Data Warehousing Modules
Hospitals and other healthcare facilities across the country leverage the power of Epic software to manage their organizations from clinical care to revenue cycles—and for their data warehousing and business intelligence. These Epic modules can be customized to address facility needs efficiently and effectively so that you can benefit from the most targeted business insights possible.
To maximize the benefits of the data warehousing/system engineering applications, it’s vital to assemble an expert team of Epic consulting professionals. To streamline the process, HealthTECH Resources provides superior consultants, contractor-to-hire professionals, and permanent placements for the precise modules your healthcare facility uses.
Benefit from our accelerated solutions and unparalleled experience as we fill in your staffing gaps so you can implement, integrate, and optimize your projects.
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We Support The Following Epic Modules
The Epic Data Warehousing modules are: Bridges, Caboodle/Cogito, Cache, Chronicles, Clarity, and Data Courier. As the concept of a “warehouse” suggests, this is a central location for huge amounts of data, consolidated from numerous sources.
They allow healthcare IT teams like yours to perform and strategically analyze queries that return large amounts of data from transaction applications, log files, and much more. The functions performed by these modules provide healthcare organizations with valuable insights to guide and enhance decision-making processes and expand capabilities.
Here is more about each of these Epic modules.
Epic Bridges
As the name implies, Epic Bridges serves as an interfacing bridge between Epic and other systems. This module allows healthcare facilities to install and configure the required interfaces to create and maintain connections with other systems to exchange healthcare data; monitor messaging; support data transfers; and more. This includes but isn’t limited to the standard HL7 interfaces.
Epic Cache
The Epic Caché hierarchical database is specifically tailored for Epic systems, crafted to maximize speed. A specialized version of the InterSystems’ proprietary database, its usage allows healthcare organizations like yours to have deft and reliable KB-SQL database access.
Robust features include database mirroring to allow your facilities to benefit from 1:1 data parity and disaster recovery with relatively low investment; divergent datasets in a unified multi-model architecture; security auditing, comprehensive encryption abilities, and smart authentication.
Epic Caché makes it easy for healthcare IT teams to manage this database, one that supports distributed systems for agile scalability. Plus, thanks to embedded operational analytics tools, you can seamlessly receive real-time insights about your key performance indicators and more.
Epic Chronicles
Epic Chronicles is a comprehensive database management system that undergirds the entire Epic system, one specifically designed for healthcare organizations. Each application within Chronicles leverages the unified data model to properly import, structure, manage, and export data. The result: highly effective searches, report creation, statistics analysis, computations, and much more.
Epic Data Courier
Epic Data Courier—or “DC” for short—focuses on database records and defining items within them, delineating the capacity of IT teams to edit within a particular technological environment. This robust module allows your healthcare team to manage admissions, orders, scheduling, insurance eligibility, transfers, and discharges, as well as medical histories, physician information and more.
HealthTECH Resources for Epic Data Warehouse & Systems Engineering Support
HealthTECH Resources is the fastest, most knowledgeable, and reliable recruiting team in the EMR/EHR industry—that’s because we specialize in just one niche. Our comprehensive network of candidates includes experienced professionals that are up to date with NVT (new version training) certifications and can seamlessly take your project from start to finish. These include Epic analysts, application coordinators, instructional designers, project managers, program managers, directors, training professionals, and more.
Specific roles HealthTECH can fill include but are definitely not limited to the following examples:
- Certified Epic Data Warehouse Consultant & ETL Consultant
- Certified Epic Caboodle Training Instructional Designer
- Certified Epic Cogito Analyst
- Certified Epic Clarity Report Developer
- Certified Epic Bridges Analyst
- Certified Epic Data Courier Project Manager
- Epic Senior Systems Engineer (ECSA)
- IT Epic Client Systems Engineer
- Epic Cache DBA (Database Administrator)
- Epic ODBA (Epic Operational Database Administrator) Cache Server Administrator
- Epic Cache DBA Systems Engineer
We can help review your IT current staffing challenges, determine where gaps exist and then strategically fill in those staffing gaps. Our boutique-style agency can meet the most stringent requirements on the most urgent timelines, often having the professionals you need on site within 48 hours.
HealthTECH Resources has more than 20 years of deep and wide industry experience and your healthcare facilities will benefit when you tap into the power of our extensive networks.
Database and Server Administration
ECSA (Epic Client Systems Administrator) / ECSE (Epic Client Systems Engineer)
The Epic Client Systems Engineer (ECSE) actively administers Epic updates and RA/SU loads of Epic ESCA components, providing daily operational support in the following: BCA-PC, BCA-Web, Cantu, EpicCare EveryWhere, Care-Link, ECSA Tools, Haiku, HyperSpace-Web, Interconnect, Kuiper, MyChart, MyChart Mobile, PrintService (EPS), SystemPulse, WebBlob, and Welcome. The ESCA professional should have in-depth knowledge of the following: Citrix VDI, Cisco UCS Architecture, EMC Storage Arrays, and layer 2 and layer 3 concepts.
Epic Cache DBA (Database Administrator)
The Cache Database Administrator (DBA)/Client Systems Engineer plays a key role on the ODBA/ECSA technology team, working closely with them and other staff to install, maintain, upgrade, fix, monitor, support, and optimize an entire Epic system and its applications. More specifically, this includes Epic Cache databases on selected server platforms, Epic ancillary Windows applications, Clarity/Cogito administration, Data Courier migrations and administration, Web Blob, Interconnect, Hyperspace Web, EPS, and more.
Epic ODBA (Epic Operational Database Administrator) Cache Server Administrator
The ODBA Cache Server Administrator works collaboratively with the ODBA/ESCA team to install, maintain, manage, upgrade, troubleshoot, monitor, and optimize Epic Cache Database applications on IBM AIX UNIX systems. This professional will assist in database planning, storage allocation, and more to maximize usage of Epic Cache databases, Windows ancillary applications, and more while being responsible for daily Epic build migrations alongside our application team.
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Epic Data Warehouse and System Engineering Module FAQS
Is Epic a data warehouse?
Epic is a powerful, robust, customizable electronic health record (EHR) system with data warehousing modules to flexibly configure to your healthcare organization’s unique workflows. Epic Data Warehouse modules include the following: Epic Bridges; Epic Caboodle/Epic Cogito; Epic Clarity; and Epic Data Courier. Each module plays a specific role in the overall data warehousing processes that healthcare organizations use to gain valuable business intelligence insights.
What types of functions do the Epic Data Warehouse modules perform in a healthcare IT system?
Overall, these modules perform business intelligence gathering and sharing functions for healthcare facilities. They allow IT teams to perform targeted queries and receive large amounts of data that can then be analyzed to glean important insights to enhance facility operations and more. In other words, these modules manipulate data stored in a huge central warehouse that contains application log file data, daily transaction data, and more. Results can be strategically used to optimize decision making capabilities that, in turn, can enhance clinical care, revenue building, and more.
What types of Epic Data Warehouse/System Engineering job positions can HealthTECH fill?
The types of job positions that exist for Epic Data Warehousing modules can include:
- Certified Epic Caboodle Consultant
- Certified Epic Cogito Intelligence Developer
- Certified Epic Clarity BI Report Developer
- Certified Epic Bridges Analyst
- Certified Epic Data Courier Consultant
Here at HealthTECH Resources, we can provide the specialized professionals you need. To get started, just contact us online today.