Senior Epic Healthcare IT Consultant

Position: Senior Epic Healthcare IT Consultant
Project: UConn Health Epic Expansion Program
RFP: UCHC
- Location: Farmington, Connecticut
Work Arrangement: Onsite / Hybrid as Required
Engagement Type: Contract

We are seeking an experienced Senior Epic Healthcare IT Consultant to support the UConn Health Epic Expansion Program and its affiliated healthcare entities and Community Connect partners.

The consultant will provide expertise in Epic implementation, healthcare IT project management, staffing augmentation, operational support, and strategic advisory services
. The ideal candidate will have experience supporting large integrated healthcare delivery systems, academic medical centers, and multi-hospital health systems.

• Support implementation, expansion, optimization, and integration of Epic EHR solutions.
• Participate in Epic application design, configuration, testing, deployment, and optimization.
• Analyze clinical and business requirements and translate them into Epic solutions.
• Support workflows across clinical, financial, and administrative functions.
• Participate in system integration and interoperability initiatives.
• Support go-live, stabilization, and post-production activities.

• Support Epic implementation and expansion projects from planning through deployment.
• Develop project plans, schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Track project risks, issues, dependencies, and decisions.
• Coordinate cross-functional clinical, technical, and operational teams.
• Prepare project status reports and executive-level presentations.
• Facilitate stakeholder meetings and implementation workshops.
• Provide strategic healthcare IT recommendations to UConn Health leadership.
• Assess current-state healthcare technology environments.
• Develop future-state recommendations and implementation roadmaps.
• Identify opportunities to improve clinical workflows, technology utilization, and operational efficiency.
• Support IT modernization and transformation initiatives.

• Provide qualified Epic and healthcare IT professionals based on project requirements.
• Support clinical, technical, application, project management, and operational teams.
• Work collaboratively with UConn Health personnel and other implementation partners.
• Provide specialized expertise during implementation, testing, go-live, and optimization phases.

• Support ongoing Epic application operations and production environments.
• Troubleshoot system and application issues.
• Assist with incident, problem, and change management.
• Provide application optimization and performance recommendations.
• Support system upgrades, enhancements, and maintenance activities.
• Develop operational procedures and technical documentation.
• Support integration between Epic and other healthcare applications.
• Work with HL7, FHIR, APIs, and healthcare interoperability technologies.
• Support interfaces between clinical, financial, laboratory, pharmacy, imaging, and other systems.
• Troubleshoot interface and integration issues.
• Support interoperability and data-exchange initiatives.

• Develop and execute testing strategies and test plans.
• Support system integration testing, user acceptance testing, and regression testing.
• Coordinate defect identification and resolution.
• Participate in cutover planning and readiness assessments.
• Provide go-live and command-center support.
• Support post-go-live stabilization and optimization.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Healthcare Informatics, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of healthcare IT consulting experience.
• Demonstrated experience with Epic EHR implementations, expansions, or optimization projects
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• Experience working with large integrated healthcare delivery systems.
• Experience with academic medical centers or multi-hospital health systems strongly preferred.
• Strong healthcare workflow and clinical systems knowledge.
• Experience with healthcare IT project/program management.
• Experience with system implementation, testing, go-live, and post-production support.
• Strong analytical, communication, documentation, and stakeholder-management skills.

• Epic certification(s) relevant to the proposed role.
• Experience supporting Epic Community Connect programs.
• Experience with Epic application implementation and optimization.
• Experience with HL7, FHIR, APIs, and healthcare interoperability.
• Experience working with…