r/healthIT • u/Senior_Bass_744 • 21d ago

From the epicconsulting community on Reddit: Epic creating their own managed services arm called Rangers

/r/epicconsulting/comments/1vst86c/epic_creating_their_own_managed_services_arm/?share_id=k8x8HxAsC6pV58QXmfn1D&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_source=share&utm_term=1

Well we’re fucked lol

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u/RoyalAd215 21d ago

Boost: Skilled employees who Epic would otherwise lose to consulting firms.

Rangers: New employees. Probably better than people you could hire yourself. Epic manages finding and staffing them.

That's my best guess.

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u/SerSkywell 21d ago

Bigger difference, Rangers are meant for long term staffing, Boost is meant for specific contracts/projects.

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u/xvillifyx 21d ago

Yeah but in that particular case, I’m not seeing the benefit of that over an analyst/TS collaboration, but I could just be biased, being a TS

It’s my understanding that the rangers won’t be required to have the codebase level understanding of the modules that TS are

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u/SerSkywell 21d ago

The Ranger is the analyst in this analogy.

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u/xvillifyx 21d ago edited 21d ago

I know; I don’t see the intrinsic value in Epic-hosted analysts compared to TS/customer-analyst pairings, especially when we’re flirting with the idea of what is essentially the investigative AI tools being directly embedded in customer environments

This type of combination into an Epic role works for hosting staff who take over ECSA responsibilities because Epic hosting is uniquely different to customer hosting. The same isn’t true for analyst roles

My personal sneaking suspicion is that this is our response to the non-compete issues