u/sanitationdepartment

I want to go back to school, and have experience in public health using databases for national outbreak surveillance. I thought getting a health informatics masters would be a good transition because of my background, but all the job postings I'm seeing for the career paths I've found so far require experience in healthcare already. Epic analysts need Epic certification which you can only get from inside of healthcare, and everything else seems to require healthcare experience. Is the system designed that way to keep outsiders out or has anyone actually broken in from the outside without starting as a front desk technician or clinician of some sort? I got accepted into the program and I'm really considering dropping my offer.