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Client Systems & ECSA
The field of the ECSA (Epic Client Systems Administrator): printing, web services, endpoint and mobile integration, and peripheral technologies.
Germany · Austria · Switzerland
From thin client to database.
A professional community for the people who run Epic’s client systems, application delivery, databases, analytics and infrastructure across the DACH region.
Independent community. EPIC Infra DACH is run by infrastructure professionals for infrastructure professionals. It is not part of Epic Systems Corporation.
From click to database
What happens between a clinician’s click and the patient record
When a nurse scans a wristband or a physician opens a chart, the request travels through five layers, from the device to the database. Two more sit beside that path: analytics works from a copy of the data, and the foundation carries everything. Each layer is owned by different specialists. If one of them fails, the ward notices first. The picture is simplified: it shows dependencies, not a network trace.
↓ Bedside: the clinician’s click
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Endpoint & peripherals
Thin client · badge reader · label printer - 02
Identity & access
Active Directory · single sign-on · MFA - 03
Application delivery
Hyperdrive · Citrix · local install - 04
Web & integration services
Hyperspace Web · Interconnect · printing · interfaces - 05
Operational database
Chronicles · InterSystems IRIS · mirroring
■ Patient record: Chronicles
Beside the click path
Our core areas
Five areas, along the infrastructure
The community is organized around the disciplines that keep Epic secure, stable and available. The five areas group the seven roles on the Expertise page: Healthcare IT Infrastructure covers Platform & Infrastructure, Network & Security, and Identity & Workplace.
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Application Delivery
Bringing Hyperdrive to every workstation, through Citrix or installed locally.
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ODBA
The field of the ODBA (Operational Database Administrator): InterSystems IRIS administration, mirroring, Linux platforms, performance and reliability.
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Cogito / Analytics Infrastructure
Clarity, Caboodle, ETL processes, Microsoft SQL Server and reporting.
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Healthcare IT Infrastructure
Virtualization, hypervisors, storage, network and security as the foundation.
How the community works
This website explains. The exchange happens in private.
Hospitals run Epic under strict confidentiality. That is why everything beyond general orientation stays inside the closed group.
On this website
- How an Epic environment is built, layer by layer
- Which roles and skills keep it secure and stable
- Who can join and how membership works
Inside the private LinkedIn group
- Peer-to-peer exchange on operations, migrations and upgrades
- Lessons learned and architecture questions
- Posts approved by the admins before they appear
- No patient data, no customer-specific or internal details
Who it is for
From first steps to technical leadership
Members are active and aspiring Epic infrastructure professionals working in, or for, healthcare organizations in the DACH region.
Aspiring professionals
Healthcare IT staff moving toward an Epic infrastructure role
Orientation on roles and learning paths, and access to people who have done the job.
Infrastructure specialists
ECSA, ODBA, Cogito, Citrix and platform engineers
Technical exchange with peers on operations, performance and resilience.
Platform & operations owners
Service owners, team leads, architects
Operating models, clear handovers and change processes across teams.
Technical leadership
Heads of IT and infrastructure, enterprise architects
Independent perspectives on availability, risk and investment in a critical platform.
Share knowledge. Challenge ideas. Learn from each other.
Build better healthcare IT together in the EPIC Infra DACH group on LinkedIn.