Clinical Apps Analyst III

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Radiation Oncology
Full Time
Day Shift
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Lexington Health is a comprehensive network of care that includes six community medical and urgent care centers, nearly 80 physician practices, more than 9,000 health care professionals and Lexington Medical Center, a 607-bed teaching hospital in West Columbia, South Carolina. It was selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the Best Places to Work in Healthcare and was first in the state to achieve Magnet with Distinction status for excellence in nursing care.

Consistently ranked as best in the Columbia Metro area by U.S. News & World Report, Lexington Health delivers more than 4,000 babies each year, performs more than 34,000 surgeries annually and is the region's third largest employer. Lexington Health also includes an accredited Cancer Center of Excellence, the state’s first Heart

CARE Center, the largest skilled nursing facility in the Carolinas, and an Alzheimer’s care center. Its postgraduate medical education programs include family medicine and transitional year residencies, as well as an informatics fellowship.

Participates in the analysis, design, testing, documentation, implementation, support and auditing of comprehensive Hospital Information Systems and electronic health records (EHR). Assists in evaluation, analysis, maintenance and development of system functionality to meet clinical objectives including participating in project plan development/tracking and workflow analysis. Coordinates resolution of system process or performance issues interacting with functional users, internal and external technology resources.

Serves as a liaison between the clinical users and the application team as well as assisting with education and training deployment.

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• 7 Years Directly Related Experience (IS or Clinical)
• Substitutable Education & Experience can be substituted for one of the following:
  • Bachelor's Degree & 5 years Related Experience
  • Masters' Degree in a Related Field (IS, Clinical, Business or Healthcare Administration) & 3 Years Related Experience
• Current Epic Certification or must obtain Epic Certification within 6 months of entry into role
• Experience in IT as a business analyst or systems analyst in a medium to large organization required;
  Previous project management experience;
  Excellent communication, organizational and project management skills;
  Proficient in computers, use of clinical information systems, and Microsoft Office solutions;
  Strong experience in use of clinical information systems that affect patient care;
  Strong interpersonal skills and high degree of professionalism;
  Presentation skills and the ability to communicate effectively.

• Utilizes in-depth understanding and knowledge of workflows, policies, and procedures, patient care/clinical business processes, regulatory requirements and best practices to:
  • Analyze existing practices by facilitating communication, cooperation and information from key users, ensuring patient safety and consistent practices throughout the organization.
  • Resolve problems and recommends solutions through research, inquiry and data analysis maintaining logs and tracking of issues.
  • Design, redesign, and analyze processes and apply knowledge to build software application.
  • Contribute to the preparation of testing scripts and participate in testing for implementation, upgrades, and fixes. Performs unit, system and integrated testing tasks.
• Primary liaison between business units, technology and support teams.
• Elicit system requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirement request, business and workflow analysis. Level III analysts will be facilitators and key decision drivers.
• Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high level data into details, abstract up from low level data to general understanding and distinguish user request from underlying true needs.
• Collaborate with developers, vendors, subject matter experts; to establish technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance…