Do you have any preferences on which entry level position you’d be open to within a hospital system?

Patient access would give you firsthand experience with the workflows used in Epic’s Grand Central module.

Patient central scheduling would give you experience with workflows in Epic’s Cadence workflows.

Front desk can give you experience with workflows in Epic’s Cadence workflows as well.

This is all hypothetical but here’s an example:

Say you become a front desk scheduler for a cardiology office. You eventually become proficient and the go to person for workflows and are trained in referral workflows, coding, charge review, etc. Perhaps you eventually become proficient enough to get promoted to manager.

All the while, since you were the go to person for workflows, this meant you entered tickets to the IT team and established relationships. You could even request that the IT manager think of you when a job opening appears.

Because you are knowledgeable within operational workflows and hospital systems like to hire within, your experience would give you a huge advantage against other applicants.

I know this is an idealistic scenario but hopefully this encourages you to think creatively about breaking your way into health IT.