Pharmacy Informaticist

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The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) has a unique combination of education, research, and clinical programs that encourages and supports teamwork and diversity. We champion being a collaborative health care organization, focused on improving patient care and the lives of Arkansans.

UAMS offers amazing benefits and perks (available for benefits eligible positions only):

• Health: Medical, Dental and Vision plans available for qualifying staff and family
• Holiday, Vacation and Sick Leave
• Education discount for staff and dependents (undergraduate only)
• Retirement: Up to 10% matched contribution from UAMS
• Basic Life Insurance up to $50,000
• Career Training and Educational Opportunities
• Merchant Discounts
• Concierge prescription delivery on the main campus when using UAMS pharmacy

Below you will find the details for the position including any supplementary documentation and questions you should review before applying for the opening. To apply for the position, please click theApply link/button.

The University of Arkansas is an equal opportunity, affirmative action institution. The University does not discriminate in its education programs or activities (including in admission and employment) on the basis of age, race, color, national origin, disability, religion, marital or parental status, protected veteran status, military service, genetic information, or sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity). Federal law prohibits the University from discriminating on these bases. Questions or concerns about the application of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex, may be sent to the University's Title IX Coordinator and to the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights.

Persons must have proof of legal authority to work in the United States on the first day of employment.

All application information is subject to public disclosure under the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act.

At UAMS we value Diversity, Equity and Inclusion.

For general application assistance or if you have questions about a job posting, please contact Human Resources at askrecruitment@uams.edu.

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Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate of an ACPE accredited School of Pharmacy with a Pharm.D Plus Three (3) years of working knowledge of one or more hospital electronic medical record (EMR) vendors, such as EPIC, Cerner, Meditech, or Allscripts, relational database, Epic Clarity report writing, designing and developing packages to transfer data from source to destinations using ETL processes

• One (1) year of Business Intelligence Visualization Tool such as (Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik) experience -

• Certification as a licensed Registered Pharmacist by the State of Arkansas or eligible for licensure by the State of Arkansas

Preferred Qualifications:

• Proven programming experience in one or more programming languages is required.

• Strong SQL coding skills, visualization building, and data analytics experience.

Additional Information:

Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance regarding the availability data from various sources to requesting customers

• Provide insight on best practices to accomplish data-related goals

• Make recommendations on potential metrics to determine financial, operation, clinical, and quality metric goal performance

• (Example of goals: revenue integrity, reimbursement analysis, patient outcome analysis, systems

• integration progress, & accreditation targets)

• Provide insight on key factors affecting pharmacy performance and provide solutions to improve target performance

• Develop SQL code to extract requested pharmacy data from Electronic Health Record database

• Integrate data from other databases (vendors, third parties, and internal sources) to provide further insight

• Create, publish, and maintain report dashboard applications to allow self-service reporting for pharmacy leadership on the medication use process (ordering, verification, dispensing, administration, charging, and monitoring

• Lead meetings related to data needs to drive data outcomes related to operational goals

• Attend Pharmacy leadership meetings to provide insight on data availability and analysis opportunities

• Serve on institutional committees where pharmacy informatics data analytics is essential to committee

• function.

• Present identified revenue improvement/expansion opportunities to pharmacy leadership

• Communicate with stakeholders to answer questions and requests related to data needs

• Serve as residency rotation preceptor (as requested)

• Serve as Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience preceptor for College of Pharmacy students (as requested) committing to at least a 3 month availability for learners.

• Participate in pharmacy residency program development/leadership

• Project Management:

• Manage projects related to the data analysis needs of pharmacy.

• Ensure key stakeholders are updated on project progress

• Develop reports as needed to demonstrate progress in project development and monitoring related to project success

• Other duties as assigned.

Salary Information:

Required Documents to Apply:

Please contact askrecruitment@uams.edufor any recruiting relatedquestions.

All application materials must be uploaded to the University of Arkansas System Career Sitehttps://uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/UASYS

Please do not send to listed recruitment contact.

This position is subject to pre-employment screening (criminal background, drug testing, and/or education verification). A criminal conviction or arrest pending adjudication alone shall not disqualify an applicant except as provided by law. Any criminal history will be evaluated in relationship to job responsibilities and business necessity. The information obtained in these reports will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law.