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Sr. Application Analyst - Epic | Full Time | Remote at Henry Ford Health

Remote:

Full Remote

Contract:

Full time

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Michigan (USA), United States

Offer summary

Qualifications:

Associates Degree / two years of college required, Bachelor's degree preferred, Over two years of experience in IT, clinical or revenue roles, Strong knowledge in engineering approaches and workflow processes, Experience with clinical workflows or revenue cycle reports.

Key responsabilities:

Design, implement and support Clinical or Business applications
Participate in cross-functional teams for integration and optimization
Identify inefficiencies, recommend solutions, and provide operational support
Act as a liaison between departments for application concerns
Collaborate on best practices and maintain system standards

Henry Ford Health XLarge https://www.henryford.com/

10001 Employees

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Job description

General Summary/Primary Function

The Senior (Sr.) Application Analyst is responsible for participating in the overall design, implementation, training, documentation, operation, and support of Clinical or Business applications and reports. This includes contributing to the planning, design, implementation, and optimization of their specific application. The Sr. Application Analyst takes general direction from their supervisor or manager. The Sr. Application Analyst may in some instances also serve as a Helios liaison to their associated clinical or business departments throughout the system. This includes, but is not limited to, the assessment of optimization efforts to meet system goals including patient safety/quality of care, revenue capture and efficient operations. The Sr. Application Analyst performs these activities following Henry Ford Health standards and processes.

Principle Duties And Responsibilities

The Sr. Application Analyst plans, designs/builds, tests, implements, and supports the needs of their application.

Participates on cross-functional teams as required to ensure integration and alignment of build, process design, and configuration of workflows.
Identifies inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement within application design and recommends solutions.
Provides ongoing operational support post implementations.

Acts as the Helios liaison to associated departments and constituencies throughout the health system on their specific application. Understands core system processes and interdependencies.

Participates actively in key meetings with Application Teams to develop best practice processes for their specific application.
May represent application team within other Organizational Departments.
Recommends and develops process and workflow configurations and/or changes to align with best practices, standardization, integration needs/requirements, compliance and/or regulatory policies.
Uses human factors and error proofing concepts whenever possible to improve safety and efficiency.

Works effectively as part of a team in resolving issues escalated through the Help Desk in a timely manner. Investigates, tests, resolves problems related to application. Ensures that their application team provides high level of customer service and appropriate coverage off-hours for critical problems. Identifies, escalates, and resolves issues that impact infrastructure and application performance.

Evaluate trends on performance, capacity and operational health and develops plans to address key issues.
Provides preventative maintenance, troubleshooting and resolves problems to ensure infrastructure and application stability.
Focus on continual improvement best practices by identifying and diagnosing improvement opportunities. Adheres to Service Level Agreement expectations demonstrated through ongoing support of live users.

Promotes, develops, and adheres to system standards, and best practices. Collaborates across Helios team to develop unified approaches and standard work. Collaborates with other team members to promote re-use and develop consistent technical build, implementation, and support processes.

Provides input on standards, best practices, and process improvements. Input may be, but not limited to, best clinical and /or business process and workflows.
Participates in testing best practices and standards.
Works to implement applications according to requirements, specifications, and compliance/regulatory standards.
Stays current with respective technology capabilities and/or third-party billing and compliance regulations (when applicable).
Participates in implementation of major version upgrades and special updates.

Communication & Relationship Management

Works with other Helios teams to resolve issues while maintaining Henry Ford Health Standards of Excellence.

Provides input to support technology planning

Works with IT, Helios, and Operations management to ensure systems are in line with overall policies, standards, processes, and overall workflows.
Stays current with vendor capabilities and provides input into software/system implementation strategies and plans.

Education/Experience Required

Associates Degree / two (2) years of college required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Requires more than two years of strong experience in one of the following:

Technical Experience

Strong knowledge of state-of-the art engineering approaches in design, build, testing, debugging problems, and ongoing technical support. Able to articulate previous examples of workflows and processes associated with previous IT experience.

AND/OR

Clinical Experience

Strong knowledge/experience in clinical workflows and processes. Able to articulate previous examples of workflows and processes associated with clinical experience integrated with IT solutions.

AND/OR

Revenue Experience

Specific knowledge of one or more of the following: bed management, registration, scheduling, revenue cycle reports, professional billing, hospital billing, medical records, or coding. Additionally, must be able to articulate revenue cycle workflows and processes for one or more of the above areas with a focus on IT integrated solutions.

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