Was bored today so I started playing around with a spare laptop that has Linux Mint loaded. I Wanted to see if I could make it a reasonable backup laptop for consulting work. So far no real issues; Outlook, Teams, Citrix, ect all work and Hyperspace had no issue.
So I got to wondering; has anyone ever run into a health system that uses Linux rather than Windows for user desktops?
Just curious on insights on getting overseas projects. I tried like hell to get on the Cleveland Clinic London install but could not get any traction.
I love the travel. Covid really messed up my mojo. Remote from home is fine for a while but I want to be on the road.
I have been running into this more and more lately and it's making me wonder if something has changed at Epic to cause it.
Case in point; I have 30+ years experience in health care IT the last 13 of that in the Epic space. I was a Sr Software engineer with a major clearinghouse for 16 years. I know what I am doing. BS in CIS and MBA in eBus.
I am rolling off a project where the AM would reject anything I had to offer out of hand with zero collaboration. If I said it; it was wrong according to this person. Multiple times I would demonstrate a fault in the build and be told 'quiet you! This is the Epic standard'. In each of those cases I had demonstrable evidence that the Epic standard would not work in these cases but the AM would push it through. We then ultimately had catastrophic failures requiring rework. This AM moved a CER to PRD that crashed the claim run the very next day. I asked did anyone change anything last night; crickets. I found the fault on my own and said 'I think this is the problem'. Was told 'NO! That has to be that way, it's something else, you are wrong'. It was not something else, this AM moved an untested claim run restriction to PRD that took down claims for days and did not own up to it. When I found it, they declared that is not the fault. It was. I could further prove it was never tested. This AM never accepted any responsibility for the issue. In the heat of go-live it was all just a line on an issues list and we moved ahead.
This person tried to undermine me to leadership but they could smell that BS and had my back. What I am wondering now is what sort of juice an AM can have at Epic and if that poison can follow me? I chalk all of this up to an over confident 20 something still wet behind the ears that has not had enough life experience. So back to my initial question, had something changed in the way Epic vets new hires. When I started in this space I already had 20+ years experience and I did not run into this level of cockiness. Most Epic folks are interact with are great but I am finding more and more that are just not cut out for this work.