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healthfinch (www.healthfinch.com/careers) - Madison, WI

Healthcare is unnecessarily complex, healthfinch aims to fix that. We do so by building applications that seamlessly integrate into electronic health record systems to automate pieces of the physician’s day. Our award-winning tool, Swoop has significant traction, but we are not resting on our laurels. Instead, we are quickly building out three additional applications and the platform we need to support them.

Software Engineer - Remote, Onsite

Join our modest development team and change the way the health care industry works! We’re scaling to more customers, integrating with a broad range of medical systems, and building out capabilities that will impact the day-to-day lives of thousands of doctors, nurses, and other heath care practitioners.

We work with Ruby and Javascript on our current apps, but believe in the philosophy of using the best tool for the job.

Lead UX Designer - Remote, Onsite

At healthfinch, we’re looking for a passionate, talented and experienced Lead UX Designer who can help us optimize our flagship application while guiding the aesthetics, functions and experience of our new suite of applications. Our Lead UX Designer will work closely with our Engineering, Customer Success, Sales and Marketing staff to understand the complex healthcare IT landscape, our vision for our future products and most importantly, the needs of the customers.

You are a strong candidate for healthfinch if you have deep experience in UX design/research and can demonstrate an ability to take an application from concept to market. You must be a gifted communicator who is able to solicit meaningful feedback from clients and can, in turn, prioritize feedback with staff to incorporate it into our product roadmap. You understand that great product design is a result of intense collaboration, multiple iterations, patience and persistence.

healthfinch, Software Engineer - Madison, WI - [email protected]

Join our modest development team and change the way the health care industry works! We’re scaling to more customers, integrating with a broad range of medical systems, and building out capabilities that will impact the day-to-day lives of thousands of doctors, nurses, and other heath care practitioners. We work with Ruby and Javascript on our current apps, but believe in the philosophy of using the best tool for the job.

Minimum Requirements - A minimum of 3 years experience working as an application developer or software engineer - Interest in working with a small development team at a start-up - Proficient oral and written communication skills History of collaborating well with other developers and stakeholders - Experience with modern web development including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Knowledge of SQL and modern RDBMSs like Postgres, Mysql, SQL Server - A good understanding of MVC design patterns - An interest in perfecting the practice of healthcare through more usable IT!

Bonus Points for These Skills - git, Ruby (or other dynamic language), Ruby on Rails, RESTful web service, development JavaScript, RSpec, Cucumber, jQuery, Cache and MUMPS - A GitHub profile you can send us

healthfinch, Software Engineer - Madison, WI

Join our modest development team and change the way the health care industry works! We’re scaling to more customers, integrating with a broad range of medical systems, and building out capabilities that will impact the day-to-day lives of thousands of doctors, nurses, and other heath care practitioners.

We work with Ruby and Javascript on our current apps, but believe in the philosophy of using the best tool for the job.

Minimum Requirements - A minimum of 3 years experience working as an application developer or software engineer - Interest in working with a small development team at a start-up - Proficient oral and written communication skills History of collaborating well with other developers and stakeholders - Experience with modern web development including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - Knowledge of SQL and modern RDBMSs like Postgres, Mysql, SQL Server - A good understanding of MVC design patterns - An interest in perfecting the practice of healthcare through more usable IT!

Bonus Points for These Skills - git, Ruby (or other dynamic language), Ruby on Rails, RESTful web service, development JavaScript, RSpec, Cucumber, jQuery, Cache and MUMPS - A GitHub profile you can send us

Healthfinch - Software Engineer

Madison, WI

We’re looking to add software engineers to our modest development team to help us scale to more customers, integrate with a broad range of medical systems, and build out capabilities that will fundamentally change the way the heath care industry works. We work with Ruby on existing apps, but believe in the philosophy of using the best tool for the job.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES: - A minimum of 3 years experience working as an application developer or software engineer - Interest in working with a small development team at a start-up - The willingness to identify projects, dive in head first with minimal supervision and see them through to completion - Strong communication skills - Strong experience with modern web development including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - A good understanding of MVC design patterns - Knowledge of SQL and Relational Database Systems - A passion for perfecting the practice of healthcare through IT

BONUS: - Experience working with: - git - Ruby - JavaScript - RSpec - Cucumber - Ruby on Rails - jQuery - .NET (SQLServer, C#, MVC) - Cache and MUMPS - A GitHub profile you can send us - Located in Madison

Visit www.healthfinch.com/jobs for more information.

The problem is Epic has effectively locked-in the top end of the market. Their strategy, which is brilliant, is to only go after the biggest, most well-known clients (I know nothing groundbreaking, but it works). They say they only focus on whales, academics, and children (hospitals). Due to this, they have been able to capture 265 of the most prestigious hospitals in the country (and soon in the world). With the lock-in they have, I can't see them giving up this market. It would take a lot to justify replacing that half a billion dollar system for someone else, especially after the hell the administrators have gone through to get the systems up in the first place. Also, in many ways Epic is becoming the de-facto standard, which is leading to network effects that would have to be broken down. I don't think you can fight Epic at their game and win.

Added to that they will likely begin to move downstream (recently heard a rev. projection $8.4B in 2016, up from $1.2B today) as the mid-size players would love to have an Epic install if only to mimic the respected healthcare organizations.

The most secure place from Epic is the small practices. The IT/intemplmentation/costs requirements of Epic are far too high, in its current form, to sell to them. The problem becomes selling. It recently talked with a VP of Sales at a HIT vendor and he said of 10 hours spent selling a doctor, 9 hours are spent trying to get a hold of him. Difficult.

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Healthcare products can generally fall into two categories (1) the game-changing technology and (2) everything else.

#1 above will sell itself (think implantable glucose monitor).

#2 will sell well if it solves one of the top three problems the organization is facing.