Applications Analyst II- Clinical Ancillary

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Position Highlights:

• Position: Applications Analyst II - Clinical Ancillary
• Location: 4201 Winfield Road, Warrenville, IL 60555
• Full Time
• Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am - 4:30pm
• Hybrid Position

Job Summary:

As the Application Analyst II at Endeavor Health, you will be responsible for assisting in specific areas of IT including full life cycle management, from analysis and design to deployment and maintenance of technology solutions and platforms. In addition, you will contribute toward identifying opportunities with the goal of reducing manual efforts, supporting the growth of the organization, promoting patient and user experience, and helping create innovative solutions with operations. You will help foster strong working relationships with key stakeholders, promote the consistent use of available tools, techniques, workflows, and platforms, and perform administrative tasks as assigned.

This role will join the Clinical Ancillary Applications team providing ongoing maintenance and upgrades to our variety of non-Epic, clinical applications.

To be successful in this role, you will be expected to remain updated on the latest solutions and technologies and advocate for the adoption of industry best practices.

What you will do:

Responsible for the implementation, maintenance, and support for a portfolio of third-party applications ranging across Clinical Ancillary Applications.

Implementation

• Serves as a liaison between the business experts/users, software vendors, and the project team to ensure the users requirements are understood and interpreted correctly.
• Assists with all phases of project including requirements gathering, evaluation, workflow analysis, building, testing, optimization and support.
• Develops technical, training, testing, project management and operational documentation as required

Maintenance

• Maintain and build relationships with both end users of applications and vendors of applications to ensure application uptime
• Own and coordinate regular application updates (e.g. versioning, patching) directly with end users and management to ensure operational uptime
• Participates in and/or lead appropriate user forum, planning session, status meeting, and department meetings to provide a Health Information Technology perspective on pending activities and strategic initiatives

Support

• Rotating between application team, manage break fix issues through ticketing system for application portfolio
• Manage break fix issues for assigned applications

General

• Under general supervision, facilitate the use of technology by the end-user and ensures systems are performing at more efficient levels.
• Designs and documents application changes and new features or defects in application area assigned.
• Reviews and responds to customer requests and participates in customer meetings.
• Occasionally leads customer meetings.
• Contributes to application and workflow process improvements.
• Solves complex problems. Takes a new perspective using existing solutions. Analyzes possible solutions using standard procedures.
• Builds knowledge of the organization, processes and customers.
• Maintain all assigned applications and version levels.
• May provide application support to other teams.
• Develops and executes test plans according to standards.
• Completes necessary internal reporting and reports status to management.
• Completes any other applicable requests from management.
• Ability to work a varied schedule, on-call hours, and hours as required during crisis situations
• Develops and executes application projects and project plans according to standards.
• Adheres to all department standard operating procedures and customer service principles
• Performs other duties as assigned

What you will need:

• Education: Associate degree with 1year previous experience in IT or relevant user experience ORMinimum of three (3) years of relevant IT experience or relevant user experience.
• Experience: Two (2) or more years of experience relevant to portfolio of responsibility in a healthcare setting or related industries.
• Unique or Preferred Skills:
• Able to communicate and translate complex technical terms into understandable simple terms for all customer groups.
• Must be able to work independently and in a team setting, possess good verbal, written & customer service skills.
• Advanced knowledge of procedures, utilities, and operating systems.
• Uses logic and methods to problem solve.
• Utilizes effective analytical and troubleshooting skills with minimum to moderate assistance.
• Experience with general application management providing support, maintenance, and implementation for third party clinical applications.
• Direct experience with Provation (GI), Obix (OB), Polysmith (Sleep), Natus (Neurology), BreezeConnect (Pulmonology), Metriq (Cancer Registry) and other ancillary applications is a plus
• Knowledge and direct experience working in Healthcare IT including HL7 interface, DICOM, operating systems, servers, databases, cyber security, clinical modalities/devices and Project Management tools is preferred