Maison DCN
The Guide to an Outsider Becoming Certified
Every verified Epic health system in all 50 states — with direct careers links and the posting language that tells you who hires first and certifies after.
Store opens Friday, October 23
Maison — founder, Maison DCN
The Part Nobody Tells You
There is no public storefront for Epic certification — no course you can buy, no exam you can book on your own. Epic trains and certifies people through their employers. A health system has to hire you, sponsor you, and send you to training. So the first move was never studying. The first move is the map: knowing exactly which employers can open the door, and how to read their postings before you ever apply.
Epic does not sell certification to individuals. If a website offers to “get you Epic certified” for a fee, it is not how the door actually opens.
The sequence is hire, then sponsor, then train, then certify. Every strategy that starts with studying starts one step too late.
Employers who hire first and certify after say so — in the posting itself. This book teaches you the exact language to look for, system by system.
404 verified Epic health systems, organized state by state and metro by metro, each with a direct line to its careers board. That is this book.
Inside the Directory
One chapter per state, with each state’s Epic health systems organized by metro and region — so you start where you actually live, or where you’re willing to go.
Every system in the book is a confirmed Epic customer — verified during the October 2026 research pass, not scraped from a stale list.
No homepages, no dead ends. Each listing goes straight to the system’s own careers board — 402 clickable links in the PDF.
The phrases that reveal whether an employer hires first and certifies after — harvested from live postings during research, so you learn to spot them anywhere.
The method, printed in every chapter: the lines to find, the order to read them in, and what each one really means for an outsider applying in.
The same directory as a spreadsheet — filter by state, metro, or system, and track every application alongside the book.
The language that opens doors
Must obtain certification within 180 days
Epic experience preferred but not required
Lines like these, quoted from real postings, are the tell: this employer hires first and certifies after. The Directory teaches you to find them in seconds — and flags them throughout every chapter.
How It Works
The Directory is built to be used, not just read. This is the working order — the same sequence, whether your state chapter runs two pages or twenty.
Open your chapter. Every verified Epic health system in the state is there, grouped by metro and region, each with its direct careers link.
Don’t work all 404 at once. Each chapter points you to the systems to start with — the ones whose postings speak most openly to outsiders.
Every chapter includes the exact board search terms for your background, so you’re searching the way the roles are actually titled — not guessing.
Ten seconds, sponsor signals first. The method shows you which lines mean “we will train you” and which mean “certified only, please.”
Spend your applications where the posting itself says the door is open — and track every one in the spreadsheet edition as you go.
Chapter Spotlight
The deepest chapter in the book. New York gets the complete treatment — region by region, with a starting three for each, the search terms for your background, and a week-long plan that ends with applications out the door.
The five boroughs — the densest concentration of Epic systems in the state.
Nassau and Suffolk — large systems, deep analyst benches.
The corridor north of the city, from Westchester up the river.
Albany and the surrounding counties.
Anchored by Rochester’s academic and community systems.
Buffalo, Niagara, and the Southern Tier’s western edge.
Syracuse and the I-90 corridor.
Binghamton and the Pennsylvania border counties.
Each region opens with the three systems to work first — and why.
The roles are titled differently depending on where you’re coming from. The chapter gives board search terms by background — clinical, billing/revenue cycle, patient access, and healthcare IT/support — so your search matches the posting, not the job you imagine.
New York law requires a salary range in job postings, and that range is information. The chapter shows you how to use it: a range tells you the seniority the employer is really buying, whether a “entry-level” title is truly entry-level, and how an offer should sit before you ever speak to a recruiter.
Paired with the sponsor-signal language, the range turns a posting into a ten-second decision — apply, watch, or pass.
One focused move per day, from opening the chapter to applications submitted.
Choose your ground. Read the chapter and pick your region — or the two you’d genuinely move for.
Meet your starting three. Open their careers boards and learn how each one titles its roles.
Search like an insider. Run the chapter’s search terms for your background on all three boards.
Read in ten seconds. Work every result through the method — sponsor signals and salary range first.
Build the short list. Move the open doors into the spreadsheet and rank them.
Tailor and apply. Applications out, written to the language each posting uses.
Widen the map. Take the same routine to the next region — the method travels.
From the recruiter’s desk — Maison DCN
Meet Maison
Maison DCN’s products are built by an HR recruiter who screens healthcare candidates for a living — someone who reads the same postings you do, and knows which lines in them decide who gets a call.
That is why this house works in steps. Step one is the map — find the employers who can hire and certify you. Step two is getting chosen once you’re in front of them. The Directory is step one, done properly.
— Maison
All 50 states, 404 verified Epic health systems, 402 direct careers links, sponsor-signal language from real postings, and the filterable spreadsheet edition. 171 pages, October 2026 Edition.
Store opens Friday, October 23
Getting chosen. The recruiter’s-desk pack for the application itself — how your experience reads to the people screening it, what to say, and how to walk into the interview already sounding like an analyst. In production now.
The Honest Part
Every retail copy is personalized — the buyer’s email is stamped on each page of your edition.
Questions
No — and that is deliberate. This is step one only: the map of employers who can hire and certify you. Training comes after a hospital hires you; this book exists to get you to that hospital.
Yes — realistically, some kind of healthcare background. The employers in this directory sponsor people whose experience they can use: clinical work, HIM/medical records, billing and revenue cycle, patient access/registration, or IT and support roles inside healthcare. If you have none of that yet, the directory still shows you the map, but your first move is a foot-in-the-door healthcare role (patient access, help desk, super-user, go-live support) — the chapters flag those entry points. It will not make someone with zero healthcare experience an analyst candidate overnight.
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All 50 states. 404 verified Epic health systems. The language that tells you who hires first and certifies after — in one book, and the spreadsheet to work it with.
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