Portfolio Work — Derek Britner

EPIC Frontline Support

First line of support for the EPIC electronic medical record at Massachusetts General Hospital — the person clinicians reached when the application stood between them and patient care.

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The role: As a Clinical Systems Analyst I, I served as first line of support for the EPIC EMR application for clinicians — resolving what I could on the spot, teaching as I went, and escalating what belonged elsewhere with enough detail for the next team to act.

Day to Day

Data capture, done right

I ensured data was being captured correctly in the application and showed users how to enter data properly based on the application's logic — because in a medical record, how data goes in determines what can be trusted later.

Ticket triage

I resolved and triaged the tickets coming into our ServiceNow queue, sorting user error from application problems from setup defects — each with a different fix and a different owner.

Escalations that landed

When an issue traced back to application setup or data capture configuration, I escalated it to the appropriate department with the specifics they needed, instead of passing along a vague complaint.

End-user education

I educated end users on how to properly use the application as part of support itself — a clinician who understands the logic behind a workflow makes fewer errors and files fewer tickets.

Reporting for Clinicians

Support questions often turned into data questions. I created regulatory reports and data summaries for clinicians through EPIC and SQL — pulling the record's data into answers clinical teams could act on, in the format they needed.

Tip Sheets

Common issues repeat. I created tip sheets for the issues that came up most, written for new and future analysts as much as for end users — so the team's hard-won fixes became shared knowledge instead of tribal knowledge. That habit of documenting the fix is a thread through all of my MGH work, and it's a centerpiece of the training work too.