I think for most companies EPIC is too much, and EPIC tends to agree, they won't talk to you unless you have at least a thousand providers.
I can't pick one over all, it really depends on what your health care company does. I researched dozens to find one for our company, and it was one focused on behavioral health.
In general I'd say stay away from Nextgen like the plague, and avoid Netsmart too. Those are the worst I've ever seen. I could write a small book about Nextgen's failures.
While the definition changes, the expertise shifts and with it the field. Computers eventually became statisticians and data scientists. Printers became graphic designers.
What I found most interesting is that when positions undergo such evolution (printer -> graphic designer), a number of skills which were previously different expertise altogether, combine to create a new field. In other words, a new multidisciplinary field is born.
I think a good example is data science, the field at it's core is applied statistics using modern techniques such as data management and computing [0].
The question is, what is the new evolution of a programmer? Lots of folks like to use the term "engineer", and previously I thought this was silly. But now with LLMs, maybe that is a good descriptor; software engineer.
The moniker already exists which we need to revive and repurpose for the LLM era;
"Systems Engineer" i.e. one who does Systems Engineering - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_engineering Because the focus is no longer on coding alone but involves specification, verification (formal and testing), traceability and correctness. All using a whole plethora of third-party infrastructure, tools and components.
In the early days there used to be "Systems Analyst" and "Systems Designer" in addition to the above. All of them go together. The Systems Analyst is business requirements facing, The Systems Designer maps it to implementation architecture and The Systems Engineer pulls everything together (including costs/risks/specific implementation technologies etc.) to produce the complete functional system.
LibreOffice did a great job of transitioning to an alternative UX and went further to implement not just ribbons but different combinations classic menu with ribbons.
That's the answer IMO, yeah now there's two UX to maintain but it's a step forward.
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