I don’t have any objection to certification exams being difficult.

I have great difficulty accepting unethical or dishonest exams:

• exams that defame the customer or candidate
• certification rules that change midstream
• exams where reward money is great and yet is a carrot on a string controlled by the tester without accountability
• exams that subject sincerely diligent and committed candidates to repeated mortifying humiliation before management affecting their employment

How would you like to drive your Healthcare organization into bankruptcy?

Beckers Hospital Review reported in their May 23rd, 2016 edition of the Hospital CFO Report that 8 hospitals' finances were hurt by EHR costs.

Epic Issues? In 2011, a recruiter called me about a job opportunity in my home town of Fresno to work in the hospital where I was born as an Epic Clinical Systems Manager. At the time, it was called Community Medical Centers in Fresno, California. The people I worked with were awesome, and I enjoyed working hard to learn new technologies. Epic Failures? During my three years at Community Health Systems in Fresno, then Community Medical Systems, I had mixed experiences with Epic that left me disappointed and wanting to warn other healthcare systems to beware and consider other alternatives.

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Do you want freedom to make choices?

• The best and cheapest software?

• The best and cheapest and most reliable consultants?

• The best for installation, configuration, testing, training, and maintenance?

  Or do you want to be forced to accept one vendor’s decision at whatever price they want to require you to pay?

Are you considering blowing millions or billions on Epic?