Business Application Analyst

Join our Information Systems team today! Our mission is to improve and enhance the health and well-being of those we serve. We offer a team approach to healthcare and a competitive benefits package.

Status: Full-Time

Shift: Days

Shift Time Schedule: 8:00 am - 4:30 pm.

Days: Monday-Friday

We offer competitive pay and a great benefits package that includes:

• Medical Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
• Life insurance
• Aflac
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage
• Wellness program and reimbursement
• Free access to Boone County Hospital’s onsite fitness room
• Generous PTO Accrual Plan
• Sick Pay
• Iowa Public Employees Retirement System (IPERS)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Onsite Cafeteria
  
  

Salary Scale: $29.59 - $43.16 Based on experience.

BOONE COUNTY HOSPITAL

Position Summary

The Business Application Analyst will work collaboratively with users of the Meditech Electronic Health Record and related applications at the Boone County Hospital and Clinics to:

• Provide education, training and support of the organization wide heath information systems and related business applications.
• Develop and analyze reports.
• Facilitate appropriate access to information systems, protects confidentiality and security of information, reduces redundancy, and supports quality decisions across the health care continuum.
• Prioritize and implement requested changes, investigate end users' preference while making build decisions. Review and test updates for end user acceptance and integrated testing.
• Conduct a variety of application administration roles, including application configuration, workflow, and information analysis, and maintaining various information systems.
  
  

This position serves as a Senior SUPERUSER for business and reporting modules as deemed necessary.

Behavioral Requirements

Boone County Hospital has developed standards for behavior expectations of all employees. Please refer to the Boone County Hospital Standards of Behavior.

Essential Functions

• Supports Hospital and Clinics EHR and supporting applications.
• Responsible for the implementation and maintenance of business applications, providing training, education, guidance, and support from project inception through completion.
• Utilize data extract/transform/load tools and SQL based scripting methods to import/export data and to design, test, and implement processes for bulk record add, update, or delete as required to support application.
• Research and analyze current workflows to identify optimization opportunities and recommend solutions for improved outcomes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess needs and challenges, proposing data-informed solutions.
• Perform necessary data manipulation/format modification of source data to achieve optimal uniformly for data comparison, conversion and standardization across source data systems and interfaces.
• Independently facilitates design of workflow by designing improved efficiencies, solving complex workflow issues, and incorporating quality initiatives.
• Troubleshoots applications with appropriate internal and external resources to resolution.
• Conducts thorough systems assessment and utilizes findings when developing new or enhanced information system applications to be used by clinical users.
• Partners with vendors and other staff to implement new systems and application upgrades.
• Supports and troubleshoots various system interfaces.
• Facilitates the education of staff through the development and implementation of information system applications and related competencies and orientation.
• Evaluates and maintains appropriate system documentation and updates.
• Performs other duties as required.
  
  

Minimum Knowledge, Skills And Abilities Required

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience with industry standard report writers.
• Experience with creating, running, and updating custom reports.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent projects.
• Demonstrates interpersonal relationship skills to work closely with end users to support information systems.
• Identifies areas for procedural improvements. Provides detailed specifications describing functions to be automated.
• Demonstrates ability to self-manage based on assigned task and to assume full ownership of overall outcomes.
• Demonstrates knowledge of procedures for maintaining security, confidentiality, and integrity of employee, patient, family, and other medical information.
  
  

EDUCATION And/or EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Experience of 5 years or more in a related field will be considered in lieu of degree.
• Requires minimum of two (2) years of experience in healthcare, product development, research, data science, reporting and analytics, or economics.
• Requires minimum of one (1) years of experience working in or with an EMR or similar business application. Experience with Meditech preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to be self-directed with excellent organizational, analytical, writing, interpersonal and project management skills.
• Strong analytical and creative thinking skills with the ability to quickly assimilate new concepts, business models, and technologies to make effective decisions and solve complex problems.
  
  

Communitcation Skills

• Effectively communicate with all levels of staff, clinical staff, and physicians to resolve complex issues involved with the Health Information Systems.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
• Ability to respond to common inquiries or complaints from customers, regulatory agencies, or members of the business community.
• Ability to prepare presentations that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, board, public groups, staff, medical staff, or patients.
• The ability to keep information confidential.
• Ability to deescalate.
  
  

Physical Activity Requirements

Physical Activity Requirements

Up to 33%

34-66%

67-100%

N/A

Sitting

X

Standing

X

Walking

X

Climbing

X

Bending/Stooping/Kneeling

X

Repetitive Motion

X

Lifting/Carrying

X

Hearing

X

Seeing

X

How often are these weights lifted or carried?

Up to 33%

34-66%

67-100%

N/A

2-10 pounds

X

11-20 pounds

X

21-30 pounds

X

31-40 pounds

X

41-50 pounds

X

51 pounds or more

X

Equipment/Tools

Computers, telephones, and EMR related appliations.

Working Conditions

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Vision must be correctable to view computer screens and read printed information. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Hearing must be in the normal range for telephone contacts and other conversations.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and requirements for this job. It is not intended to be a complete statement of duties, responsibilities, or requirements.