Clinical IT Analyst III

Responsibilities

Assist in the deployment of applications and their components.

• Assists other clinical analysts in maintaining the project timelines in EHR deployments and other applications when occur.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of the business rules and organizational workflows that exist within the administrative and clinical areas.
• Maintain a thorough understanding of assigned applications used in departmental areas.
• Assists other clinical business analysts in implementing new updates, releases, and work with end-users in analyzing, and resolving issues during new implementations.
• Assist in creating and implementing communication plans related to applications’ maintenance, changes and enhancements.

Assist in enterprise applications maintenance and enhancements.

• Participate and maintain working relationship with different focus groups.
• Participate in the evaluation, testing and implementation of future releases, monthly & quarterly updates. Assist in coordinating the upgrades to EHR, EHR components and non-EHR applications.
• Collect and evaluate new requests related to enhancements of different applications, work closely with programmers, software architect, EHR architect and business analysts for acceptable outcome.
• Create tickets, or work items based on analysis for development.
• Test the new developments, and communicate testing results to technical and analyst teams before the changes are rolled out
• Proactively reads, creates, maintains, follows application documentation.

Coordinate application trainings

• Assist in the creation of training tools.
• Assist the effort for training end users on updates and enhancements.
• Assist in EHR training to support core application functionality.
• Establish schedules and designate facility areas for training to occur.

Support business and other applications

• Answer any tier 1 and tier 2 phone calls, emails or inquiries with proper support documentation.
• Perform scheduled audits and ad hoc audits to monitor compliance.
• Maintain and monitor applications, integrations and interfaces.
• Assist in keeping application integrity and policies related to new enhancement changes.
• Assist in the development of new documentation related to user support.

Other IT duties as deemed necessary should include but not be limited to the following.

• Test and document compliance related to MIS policy and procedure.
• Assist in system(s) evaluations with other IT staff.
• Participate in IT team meetings and initiatives.
• Participate in the strategic planning process for IT.
• Participate on and chair committees deemed necessary to support standards and accreditations.
• Assist in providing training when deemed necessary.
• Participate in Orientation Training for IT.
• Provide application training when deemed necessary.
• Perform other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Administrative and other related duties as assigned

• Actively participates in Performance Improvement activities.
• Actively participates in AltaPointe committees as requested.
• Completes assigned tasks in a timely manner.
• Treats consumers with dignity and respect.
• Works in a cooperative manner with other AltaPointe employees.
• Follows AltaPointe policies and procedures.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Nursing or equivalent healthcare degree, Business, IT. Nursing, equivalent healthcare degree or 1-3 years’ experience in healthcare applications is preferred; working knowledge of Microsoft Office and reporting tools, i.e., Crystal; task-oriented, good communication, analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills;