Sr Project Specialist- Epic Healthy Planet Certified- Kelsey-Seybold Clinic - Pearland Texas

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Explore opportunities with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, part of the Optum family of businesses. Work with one of the nation's leading health care organizations and build your career at one of our 40+ locations throughout Houston. Be part of a team that is nationally recognized for delivering coordinated and accountable care. As a multi-specialty clinic, we offer care from more than 900 medical providers in 65 medical specialties.

Take on a rewarding opportunity to help drive higher quality, higher patient satisfaction and lower total costs. Join us and discover the meaning behind Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

Top-level technical expert in one or more highly specialized areas of application, systems analysis, and programming. Acts independently with very little direction. May have duties, such as instructing or leading project application teams. May be asked to work with KS Executive management, in. Shares knowledge and learning with others. Provides technical leadership on complex projects. May act as an expert in a business or functional area.

Keeps abreast of new technology. Formulates/defines system scope and objectives. Has full technical knowledge of all phases of application systems analysis. Assists client departments in identifying and designing opportunities for operational improvement, which can be enabled by, improved systems configuration, deployment, acquisition, or development. Provides project management and direction for system related projects. Performs configuration changes and system setup to ensure scope and quality of product.

This position plays a key role in advancing population health and value-based care initiatives by designing, optimizing, and maintaining Healthy Planet tools within Epic. This position supports quality improvement, care management workflows, and payer-specific analytics and reporting, with a focus on improving outcomes, closing care gaps, and supporting performance under value-based contracts. The analyst collaborates closely with clinical, care management, quality, and operational stakeholders to ensure accurate data capture, actionable insights, seamless workflows, and compliance with NCQA certified HEDIS measures.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Healthy Planet Configuration & Optimization
• Configure, maintain, and enhance build to support closing Care Gaps
• Develop and customize registries, MyPanel metrics, and population specific dashboards to support value based care initiatives and performance monitoring
• Build and maintain Campaigns and Compass Rose care management programs to support targeted outreach and care gap closure
• Value-Based Care Analytics
• Configure HEDIS reporting tools and ensure alignment with NCQA certified measure standards
• Apply solid knowledge of clinical vocabularies and coding standards, including LOINC, ICD, and CPT, to ensure data accuracy and measure compliance
• Partner with quality, reporting, and care management teams to enable timely and accurate quality performance tracking across value-based care contracts
• Population Health Strategy
• Contribute to the development of population health strategies that improve outcomes and patient experience across the health system
• Provide subject matter expertise on Healthy Planet functionality to internal stakeholders
• Ensure system configuration supports operational goals for chronic disease management, preventive care, and payer performance programs
• Project Management:
  Define, lead and conduct projects as assigned in accordance with standard KSC project management and documentation standards. Provide consultation for program design, build, interface build/testing, system testing, and documentation. Is a self-starter and resourceful. Provides technical leadership on complex projects
• Teamwork:
  Direct and mentor other project team members so that defined objectives and benefits are achieved. Serves as a resource and advocate for assigned user group(s). Establish solid working relationships with members of other application teams/management to ensure proposed system changes are thoroughly vetted and potentially adverse downstream consequences are discovered. Develop and communicate risk mitigation strategies
• System Development:
  Work collaboratively or in leading role as part of Application System Project teams. Define and document business/clinical system requirements and workflows. Configure System settings and master files to meet business requirements. Validate system build with business owners through presentations and standardized testing procedures. Provide or lead system go live support, problem resolution and question- and-answer services. Act as technical and project mentor to other less experienced and proficient team members.
  
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