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Eric Andrew
Kristof

RN · CompTIA A+ · CAHIMS · MCP · AR HIMSS Board

Registered Nurse and IT veteran uniquely positioned at the intersection of clinical expertise and enterprise technology. From Epic Go Live deployments to EHR migrations — I bridge the gap between how healthcare works and how technology serves it.

Epic Go Live EHR Deployment Clinical Informatics Windows 10/11 Migration CompTIA A+ CAHIMS AI Essentials
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Current Location Hot Springs Village, AR
RN License AR #229984 Expires 10/31/2027
CompTIA A+ COMP001021148659 Expires 5/31/2029
CAHIMS ID# 0700121045 Expires 5/31/2029
AI Essentials 6-2C6-22B96H No expiration
MCP ID# 1006171 No expiration
Education BBA Info Systems · UNT
Arkansas HIMSS Board of Directors
Open to Healthcare IT Opportunities
About Me

Where Clinical Meets Technical

Eric Andrew Kristof

My career path is anything but conventional — and that’s precisely what makes it valuable. I began in information technology decades ago, working across telecommunications, software, medical, real estate, finance, and aviation sectors before earning my nursing degree and bringing that clinical lens back into healthcare technology.

Most Healthcare IT professionals come from one side or the other — they either understand the technology or they understand the clinical workflow. I understand both. As a Registered Nurse who has personally experienced the frustrations and possibilities of EHR systems at the bedside, and as an IT professional who has supported Epic Go Live initiatives and enterprise-wide workstation migrations, I can translate meaningfully between clinical staff and technology teams.

I’m currently seeking roles in Healthcare IT — particularly in clinical informatics, EHR implementation and support, end user services, and project coordination within health systems. I bring patience, attention to detail, and a genuine passion for making technology work better for the people who deliver care.

Education
  • BBA, Information Systems Management — UNT
  • AS, Nursing (Honors, Phi Theta Kappa) — Collin College
Professional Affiliations
  • HIMSS — Arkansas Chapter Board of Directors, Website Administrator
  • Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society
Seeking Roles In
  • Clinical Informatics
  • EHR Implementation & Support
  • End User Services (Healthcare)
  • Healthcare IT Project Coordination
  • Nursing Informatics
Licenses & Certifications

Credentials That Cross Domains

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Registered Nurse
Active Arkansas nursing license with clinical experience in dialysis and acute care settings.
AR License #229984 · Expires 10/31/2027
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CompTIA A+
Industry-standard IT certification covering hardware, software, networking, and troubleshooting fundamentals.
ID# COMP001021148659 · Expires 5/31/2029
NEW · 2026
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CAHIMS
HIMSS Certified Associate in Health Information and Management Systems — validating core competency in health information management.
ID# 0700121045 · Expires 5/31/2029
2026
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CompTIA AI Essentials
Certification in AI concepts, responsible AI use, and AI-assisted workflows in professional environments.
Cert ID# 6-2C6-22B96H · No expiration
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Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft platform certification supporting enterprise workstation deployment and systems administration.
MCP ID# 1006171 · No expiration
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BLS HCP / CPR / AED / First Aid
Healthcare Provider-level Basic Life Support, CPR, AED, and First Aid certification maintained as an active clinical professional.
Expires 5/31/2027
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Notary Public — Arkansas
Commissioned Arkansas Notary Public with legal document production experience in estate and trust law.
Commission #12723754 · Expires 06/05/2033
Professional Experience

A Career at the Intersection

2026 Jul – Present
Board of Directors, Website Administrator
Arkansas HIMSS Chapter
Arkansas
  • Maintain arkansashimss.org for the 165-member statewide chapter, keeping event, membership and board content current and the site available.
  • Work with chapter leadership on member communications and statewide healthcare IT community engagement.
HIMSS Board Leadership Website Administration Community Engagement
2026 Apr
Freelance Web Developer & Technology Consultant
Independent
Hot Springs Village, AR
  • Took a local auto body shop from first conversation to a live production website (qualityautobodyhotsprings.com) in under a week, using Claude AI for design and content, Netlify for hosting and continuous deployment, and Namecheap for domain and DNS.
Web Design AI-Assisted Workflows Netlify Client Delivery
2025 May – Oct
Desktop Project Technician (NSP Analyst; End User Services)
F2Onsite, contracted to CommonSpirit Health at CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs
Hot Springs, AR
  • Supported CHI St. Vincent’s Epic go-live as NSP Analyst, auditing workstation, network and printer readiness, including the network jack behind each of the 400+ workstations installed.
  • Personally deployed ~400 of the 495 Windows 11 workstations the End User Services team installed in 72 workdays, across hospital units, medical office buildings and outlying clinics.
  • Validated builds before they reached clinical areas, verifying Active Directory placement, Imprivata sign-on and Citrix-delivered Epic on AppStation, Lightly Managed and BCA (business continuity) workstations imaged 15 at a time through Microsoft Configuration Manager.
  • Reported project status against the timeline: maintained the master deployment tracker, measured team pace (about 7 workstations per workday), and forecast completion of remaining units for upgrade status meetings with project leadership.
  • Troubleshot failed configurations (Group Policy refresh, auto-login reinstall, Active Directory and BitLocker issues) and replaced a physician’s workstation when Epic login failed.
Epic Go-Live Windows 11 Deployment Imprivata & Citrix Project Status Reporting
2022 Sep – Nov
Registered Nurse, Dialysis
Fresenius Medical Care
Dallas, TX
  • Provided direct RN care to patients receiving dialysis in an outpatient clinic.
Clinical Nursing Dialysis Outpatient Care
2013 Dec – Dec ’22
Licensed Massage Therapist; IT, Data & Operations Support
Siena Massage · EMSO III Enterprises · SPA810 · The Massage Company
Dallas–Frisco, TX
  • Delivered 5,600+ client services as the highest-volume therapist at EMSO’s Frisco location and #2 among male therapists across Siena’s two locations, while serving as staff’s go-to IT support for Windows, iOS, Android, printers and networks.
  • Recommended MindBody Online to replace manual scheduling, then electronic SOAP charting in MindBody to replace paper notes (adopted in 2021); gave input on the client-intake and policy rewrite at management’s request.
  • Built P&L reporting spreadsheets and business-intelligence briefings for owners (ESRI Tapestry segmentation, CRM data cleanup, direct mail, SEO); generated 1,000+ targeted sales leads with Acxiom/USADATA.
IT Support Electronic Charting Business Intelligence Process Improvement
Earlier Career
Earlier Healthcare IT & Enterprise Systems Career
SmithKline Beecham · Alcatel-Lucent · Verizon · Boeing
Selected roles
  • CIS Support Analyst, SmithKline Beecham Clinical Laboratories (now Quest Diagnostics): Implemented and supported PC-based clinical information systems in physician offices across 4 states: site assessments, hardware and software installs, updates, testing of new CIS products, CPU-to-CPU interfaces coordinated with outside vendors, and training for clinical and lab staff.
  • Unix Systems Administrator, Alcatel-Lucent / DSC Communications (7 years): Supported 3,000+ engineers and staff, keeping 1,180+ Unix workstations (Sun, HP, SGI, Apollo) and 29 servers (Sun, HP, NetApp, Auspex) running; provisioned user accounts; carried regular on-call duty; administered Oracle and Sybase databases; consolidated DNS domains enterprise-wide; wrote end-user documentation and training.
  • Unix Systems Administrator (Contract), TEKsystems / Verizon Database Marketing: Ran Unix/Oracle servers for a 200-person database marketing division: production backups, OS upgrades, automated list processing and documentation of the computing environment.
  • Engineering Support Technician, Boeing 777 Division: Administered a SAS-based database and its technical documentation for Buyer Furnished Equipment tracking; received a Certificate of Achievement for Outstanding Performance from 777 Division leadership.
  • Additional experience: Medical front office (North Texas Physicians & Surgeons); database programming and business analysis (BSM Computers / IRG Technologies); litigation support; technical writing in telecommunications, finance, real estate and aviation.
Clinical Info Systems Unix / Oracle On-Call Support Multi-Industry
Core Competencies

Skills Across Both Worlds

Healthcare IT
Epic Go Live Support
EHR Deployment
Clinical Informatics
End User Services (EUS)
Workstation Deployment
HIMSS & CAHIMS Certified
Clinical / Nursing
Registered Nurse (Active)
Dialysis Care
Clinical Workflow
Patient Documentation
BLS / CPR / AED
Care Coordination
Technical
Windows 10/11 Migration
CompTIA A+ (Certified)
Microsoft Certified Pro
CompTIA AI Essentials
AI-Assisted Workflows
Network & Printer Audits
Business & Analysis
Database Marketing
Business Analysis
CRM Hygiene
Document Production
Financial Reporting
Project Coordination
Vital Signs — Eric's Blog

Perspectives on Healthcare, Technology, & Beyond

Illustration of web services in a hospital showing an EHR calling a remote clinical decision support service over a secure connection and receiving a recommendation, with a service description document in the middle, HIMSS Word of the Day series by Eric Kristof, RN, CAHIMS.
Certification Prep, Healthcare IT, HIMSS Word of The Day, IT Infrastructure
HIMSS Word of the Day #280: Web Services

Web services are a common method that lets web-based applications connect and use one another’s functions over an internet protocol backbone. This post explains the SOAP, WSDL, and XML foundations the HIMSS Dictionary names, how modern REST-style and FHIR APIs relate, what a remote clinical decision support trial and a hospital service-oriented architecture project reported, and the security and reliability questions to ask.

October 2026
Illustration of TCP/IP in a hospital showing data packets traveling from a bedside device through switches and a firewall to the EHR server, with a lock icon on the connection, HIMSS Word of the Day series by Eric Kristof, RN, CAHIMS.
Certification Prep, Healthcare IT, HIMSS Word of The Day, IT Infrastructure
HIMSS Word of the Day #279: TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol)

TCP/IP is the set of communication protocols that underlies the internet and most hospital networks: IP delivers packets from source to destination, and TCP provides a reliable, in-order stream between applications. This post explains the roles of each, how the HIPAA Security Rule’s transmission security standard relates, what a zero-trust FHIR study tested against a SYN flood, and why network reliability matters at the bedside.

October 2026
Illustration of a QAPI program in a nursing home showing a quality committee reviewing data dashboards, a plan-do-check-act cycle, and frontline staff suggesting improvements, HIMSS Word of the Day series by Eric Kristof, RN, CAHIMS.
Certification Prep, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Policy, HIMSS Word of The Day
HIMSS Word of the Day #278: QAPI (Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement)

QAPI, quality assurance and performance improvement, joins two mutually reinforcing parts of a quality management system into a systematic, data-driven approach to safety and quality in nursing homes. This post explains what 42 CFR 483.75 requires, what a national survey found about nursing home readiness and tool use, how small tests of change work, and how informatics teams support QAPI.

October 2026
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