Clinical Implementation Specialist - Healthca

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Full Time US

ELLKAY started out providing connectivity solutions to laboratories and within a few years, grew to also provide data management solutions to ambulatory organizations. ELLKAY is now a trusted data management partner in five healthcare segments. ELLKAY’s solutions continue to serve laboratories and ambulatory practices and have expanded to empower hospitals and health systems, healthcare IT vendors, ambulatory practices, health plans, and other healthcare organizations with cutting-edge technologies and solutions that drive their growth and interoperability strategies.

Today, ELLKAY remains true to our core values, building strong partner relationships and offering unparalleled service and support while providing innovative, scalable solutions to the challenges our customers face in today’s data-rich world.

ELLKAY's experience, customer-focused approach, and reputation for innovation, speed, and accuracy differentiate ELLKAY as a premier partner for your interoperability needs and data management strategy.

The Clinical Implementation Consultant serves as the clinical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for healthcare data archiving, legacy-system retirement, and clinical data migration initiatives. This client-facing role serves as the clinical liaison between healthcare organizations and ELLKAY's technical and implementation teams, ensuring historical patient information is preserved accurately and remains accessible, interpretable, and usable following migration.

The Clinical Implementation Consultant is responsible for evaluating the clinical integrity of the archived patient record, including whether information retains its intended clinical meaning, context, chronology, relationships, and usability after migration. The role translates clinical workflows, source-system functionality, and medical-record requirements into clear solution-design, configuration, data-mapping, testing, and validation requirements.

Working collaboratively with Project Management, Data Analysis, Data Mapping, Data Modeling, Engineering, Quality Assurance, Product, Center of Excellence, Clinical Success Management, and Support, the Clinical Implementation Consultant supports the full implementation lifecycle from discovery and solution design through data validation, client acceptance, go-live, stabilization, and transition to support.

The role does not replace the technical accountability of Data Engineering, Data Mapping, Quality Assurance, or Project Management. This role provides the clinical expertise necessary to ensure technical implementation decisions preserve the meaning, integrity, accessibility, and usability of the historical clinical record.

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate clinical, workflow, operational, and historical-record requirements.
• Analyze legacy clinical applications and workflows to understand how patient information is captured, presented, and used.
• Identify clinically significant data, workflow dependencies, and record-access requirements that impact solution design.including but not limited to medications, allergies, diagnoses, problem lists, laboratory results, clinical notes, encounters, documents, images, and historical reports.
• Translate clinical requirements into clear functional, configuration, data-mapping, testing, and validation requirements.
• Identify solution gaps, limitations, risks, and dependencies and recommend appropriate alternatives.
• Partner with Project Management to support scope, milestones, client expectations, and implementation planning.

• Serve as the clinical SME for archive solution design, configuration, and clinical data-mapping decisions.
• Collaborate with Data Analysis, Data Mapping, Data Modeling, Engineering, and Quality Assurance throughout implementation.
• Review data mappings and transformation decisions to ensure clinical meaning, context, chronology, and relationships are preserved.
• Evaluate how structured and unstructured clinical content is represented and accessed within the archive.
• Identify and elevate gaps, inconsistencies, or unintended changes in clinical meaning or usability.
• Partner with technical teams to resolve clinical data, configuration, display, and usability issues.