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POSITION SPECIFICS
Title : Health Informatics Analyst - RN (Hybrid)
FTE : 1.0
Schedule : Monday - Friday (8 : 00am to 4 : 30pm)
Holiday Rotation : see below
Weekend Rotation : see below
On Call Requirements : Call rotation for after-hours and weekends
Location : Primarily Remote; Anticipate 1-4 days per month onsite for rounding / meetings. Must live in Wisconsin or Illinois.
POSITION SUMMARY
The Health Informatics Analyst-RN position provides expertise and support of the Electronic Health Record and other integrated solutions to users for the use of delivering patient care. This position assists in the development, testing, implementation and supports system applications and processes to meet the requirements of the organization. Performs consulting and communication with all users of the technology, vendors, and outside agencies with their goal being to work to maintain and / or improve patient care and support departmental workflows. Ensures that the software build meets organizational goals and external mandates such as HIPAA and CMS.
POSITION TECHNICAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Essential Duties and Responsibilities :
- Efficiently and effectively covers any of the functional areas within the Information Services team.
- Monitors system effectiveness and / or performance to determine if there are any potential problems, reports critical findings to coworkers and / or supervisor and resolves somewhat complex problems.
- Develops and maintains test scripts to reflect proposed workflow solutions.
- Reviews and tests changes, interfaces, data conversion, enhancements, and each new release as assigned.
- Participates in disaster recovery initiatives.
- Acts as a lead within an initiative, or body of work and utilize project management tools in doing so.
- Works with various hospital departments in forecasting the needs for their departments and assists with advancing technology applications for optimization and efficiency
- Leads process improvement initiatives related to EHR applications systems.
- Formulates systems scope and objectives through research of customer needs and understanding of business processes.
- Collaborates with staff to complete necessary documentation for issues, enhancements, and other program needs.
- Develops and documents any changes in workflow practice or change management that has an impact directly on the IS department or organization for communication out to staff.
- Proactively identifies system risks and brings them forward with a recommendation plan.
- Develops designs and diagrams of complex workflow into easy-to-understand display tools.
- Demonstrates innovation and creativity to create solutions that are not already available in the systems.
- Implements changes within the team and mentors on change management principles.
- Utilizes the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) : project definition, user requirements definition, system requirements definition, analysis and design, system build, implementation and training, sustainment.
- Uses logic, analysis, and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems, and considers costs / benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
- Assists initially and potentially ongoing user training and education in the operation of new system applications.
- Attends meetings with EHR users to maintains a working knowledge of application use and workflows necessary to effect changes to the EHR.
- Maintains an up-to-date knowledge of : current trends and issues in healthcare, healthcare informatics, regulations and standards as related to the EHR.
- Regular rounding to improve communications between the clinicians and IS to better understand and institute process improvements.
Provide support for internal and external contacts :
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
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BENEFIT SUMMARY
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