Application Analyst - Epic Inpatient Orders

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JOB SUMMARY

The Epic Inpatient Orders Application Analyst II supports complex clinical and business applications to enhance their performance, reliability, and alignment with organizational goals. This role involves analyzing user needs, configuring and optimizing systems, and troubleshooting issues under moderate supervision. The analyst collaborates with internal teams and external partners to ensure applications and third-party systems meet clinical and business requirements while integrating seamlessly across the organization. Additionally, this role performs testing, documentation, and analysis to support system design and workflows, contributing to the continuous improvement of healthcare and business operations. Key responsibilities include application configuration, conducting analysis of workflows and data collection, and executing comprehensive testing for system enhancements and integrations. The role ensures seamless integration of applications with cross-functional systems while maintaining knowledge of emerging technologies and their healthcare applications. Additionally, the Analyst II plays a vital role in projects or project tasks to drive system improvements and organizational success. Additional responsibilities may be assigned as required to support the organization's goals.

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree preferred with 3 years' experience in relevant field, or Associate's degree with 8 years' experience in relevant field, or high school diploma with 13 years' experience in relevant field.

• Required:
  Certification in Epic Inpatient Orders
• Required:
  Proven experience in build, support, triage, and troubleshooting for application.
• Preferred:
  Certification in Epic Stork or Epic Inpatient Orders
• Preferred:
  Strong working knowledge of hospital /clinical and/or business workflows.

• Valid Driver's License | Valid Driver's License
• Must satisfactorily complete required Epic certification testing.
• Must maintain Epic certifications.

• Thorough understanding Epic Inpatient workflows
• Collaborates with internal and external technical and end user groups to ensure applications and other third-party systems meet the organization's clinical and business needs when building and implementing the system.
• Maintains knowledge of new technical concepts and solutions and their application to healthcare. Assists with implementation and support of third-party systems.
• Performs in-depth analysis of end user department workflows, data collection, report details and other technical issues as they relate to design and build decisions.
• Involves complex qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information collected as part of application requirement gathering.
• Understands and translates the business/clinical functionality into system configuration and workflow validations.
• Plans, prepares, and executes test scripts for application testing, new release testing, integration testing, and user acceptance testing.
• Documents test results, design, change control, system problems, and internal procedures according to departmental standards.
• Provides technical application support, triage, and troubleshooting for complex applications. Participates in on-call coverage for off-hours and application validation during scheduled downtimes. Monitors the systems for data quality, efficiency, operation, and data integrity and appropriately escalates issues/problems.
• Provides the necessary experience and knowledge to ensure all aspects of the application integrate with the other cross functional applications utilized by the organization.
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as required to support the organization's goals.

• Ability to multi-task with excellent attention to detail.
• Superior analytical, problem solving, research and decision-making skills.
• Proven track record of academic and/or professional success.
• Knowledge of business or clinical processes and workflows.
• Strong communication, prioritization and follow up skills.
• Willingness to address issues and take ownership, knowing when and how to escalate issues.
• Ability to work independently and with a team in a collaborative environment.
• Requires proficiency in the use of a computer for tasks such as creating/evaluating workflow diagrams, testing, creating documentation, etc.