Epic Analyst Lead - Hospital Billing; at Christus Health Beaumont, TX

Summary

The Information Services Lead is responsible for leading and coordinating the efforts and content within the designated focus area. This position is the most senior level and will require coordination and consistency across related IS teams. Specific responsibilities include providing oversight for applications support including Incident, Problem, Request and Change Management. This position requires a self-starter with the ability to work with minimal oversight.

• Acts as primary representation in phases of implementation including build, configuration, testing, go-live support, and optimization. Serves as escalation for the focus area in the support and optimization of team activities.
• Demonstrates leadership for team to consistently provide strong, high quality outcomes to end users and stakeholders. Ensures team members adhere to quality standards.
• Demonstrates an expert level of application understanding, and applies expertise to help meet customer goals and outcomes and set standards. Able to influence operational and clinical project outcomes. Coaches team members to tackle new problems using experimentation, including successes and failure experiences. Inspire creative problem solving beyond standard recommendations and practice.
• Applies expert level understanding of assigned clinical-busines operations, processes, and workflows; and accurately documents, discusses, and identifies dependencies with project team members and stakeholders. Provides clear and organized project status reporting to all stakeholders. Coordinates team members to gather information and prepare organized, consistent, and accurate reporting. Escalates issues appropriately through the chain of command.
• Leads process and requirement analysis, including process mapping through current flowcharts, documenting plans, requirements elicitation, stakeholder analysis and specification gathering on complex projects.
• Develops business relationships with key client administrators based on trust. Leverages relationships to gain new project insight and new business opportunities for the Portfolio team.
• Identifies potential areas of conflict or roadblocks and works with appropriate leadership to remove or resolve.
• Organizes and distributes work load to ensure deliverables meet customer expectations; mentors assigned analysts; facilitates cross training of team members. Proactively escalates issues and/or concerns with customer system service expectations.
• Maintains knowledge of Epic including Nova release notes, User Forum, Galaxy, and other documentation published through the Epic User Web.
• Independently understands, analyzes and communicates complex integrated design and configuration. Analyzes, designs and configures the application. Teaches team members complex design and configuration.
• Works collaboratively with application and compliance teams to design system processes.
• Acts as customer liaison, working with end-users or business contacts to understand business needs and communicate the requirements and timelines.
• Leads the focus area work groups, providing oversight for related processes. Manages communication between the application teams as appropriate; facilitates application and cross application work sessions.
• Strong communicator able to adapt message from baseline project team members to senior leadership. Independently develops internal and external communication and articulates project strategy ideas.
• Ability to coach in a positive and constructive way to increase self awareness in others.
• Demonstrates highest ability to produce design, configuration and deliverables for executive leadership with no superior review.
• Manages large and/or sensitive projects requests throughout the project lifecycle. Works collaboratively with all team members to assign tasks, provides oversight and guidance to lower level staff.
• Develops and maintains documentation, remains informed of the latest features and functionality to enhance the focus area to gain efficiency.
• Maintains expert knowledge of all technologies applicable to specific job responsibilities.
• Works with Application teams including Application Development and Business Process Owners to design, develop and maintain application aspects within prescribed policies and requirements.
• Pursues professional growth and development through personal reading, seminars, workshops and professional affiliations to keep abreast of the trends in his/her field of expertise.
• Leads and coordinates across applications for high impact vendor changes.
• May be required to travel to perform duties.
• May be required to work additional hours as needed during critical problems.
• Proactively plans projects and tasks across applications.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Associate or Bachelor’s degree preferred with a focus in healthcare, business or information systems. Ability to present complex data in meaningful method, e.g., charts, graphs.
• Ability to adjust to and implement change.
• Problem solving…