Epic Project Manager

Epic Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced Epic Project Manager to lead the planning, execution, and successful delivery of Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation and optimization projects across healthcare organizations. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in healthcare IT project management, Epic application implementations, stakeholder management, and regulatory compliance. This role requires close collaboration with clinical, operational, and technical teams to ensure projects are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget while supporting organizational goals and improving patient care outcomes. Epic Project Managers commonly lead implementation projects in partnership with healthcare organizations and cross-functional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the complete project lifecycle, including project initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, budgets, risk registers, and resource allocation plans.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams consisting of clinicians, analysts, application teams, IT infrastructure, vendors, and Epic representatives.
• Facilitate project governance meetings, steering committee updates, and executive status reporting.
• Manage project scope, timelines, risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
• Drive workflow analysis, process improvement, and Epic implementation best practices.
• Support organizational change management, end-user training, communication planning, and adoption strategies.
• Coordinate integration activities between Epic and third-party applications including Oracle and other healthcare systems.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA, GDPR (where applicable), organizational security policies, and healthcare regulatory standards.
• Track project milestones, KPIs, budgets, and overall project performance while providing regular updates to PMO leadership and executive sponsors.
• Collaborate with application teams during testing, go-live planning, stabilization, and post-implementation optimization.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and recommend enhancements to Epic applications and project delivery processes.

Required Skills

• Active Epic Certification in one or more modules such as:
  • EpicCare
  • Resolute
  • Cadence
  • Other Epic clinical or revenue cycle modules
• Strong knowledge of Epic implementation methodology.
• Experience managing large-scale healthcare IT or EHR implementation projects.
• Expertise in project management methodologies including:
  • PMBOK
  • Agile
  • Scrum
  • PRINCE2
• Strong understanding of:
  • Electronic Health Records (EHR)
  • Clinical workflows
  • Revenue Cycle
  • Patient data management
  • Healthcare interoperability
• Experience coordinating system integrations with Oracle or other third-party healthcare applications.
• Knowledge of healthcare compliance standards including HIPAA and healthcare security best practices.
• Excellent leadership, stakeholder management, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, organizational, and risk management capabilities.

Flexible work from home options available.

Compensation: $60.00 - $65.00 per hour