Application Analyst- Epic Prelude/Cadence

Job Details

General Notes

The Office of Information Technology at Dell Medical School is looking for an Application Analyst- Epic Prelude / Cadence.

Not a limited term position.

Purpose

The Epic Application Analyst will serve as the subject matter expert and technical contact for their focus application areas.

In addition, they are responsible for taking the lead in primary areas of work, including Projects, Changes, and the highest point of Break / Fix escalation.

They demonstrate full use and application of standard principles, theories, and concepts related to technical discipline, and provide solutions to a variety of complex problems.

Responsibilities

Responsible for the design, build, configuration, testing, and maintenance of clinical information systems with a focus in patient registration, patient scheduling, patient billing, and patient throughput.

Serve as a liaison between business operations and providers, internal information technology, system users and vendors working within the defined project objectives for issue and problem resolution.

Provide support to end-users both remotely and in-person. Monitors, investigates, troubleshoots, and resolves incoming tickets.

Coordinate system fixes and changes with software vendors. Coordinate the deployment of application changes with the training team and operations

Create test scripts, timelines, and plans for application and workflow changes. Perform actual testing of clinical information system configuration and processes, including testing across applications and / or the testing of the application configuration of other analysts.

Coordinate and participate in requestor and user testing of application changes.

Collaborate with technical colleagues to help identify any infrastructure related issues that have resulted in clinical application issues.

Demonstrate increasing technical knowledge of the assigned application including relationships of infrastructure and impact to user if unavailable.

Provide on-going end user clinical information systems support with all upgrades, new releases, enhanced functionality, and requested change and problem management support following the outlined ITIL processes.

Responsible for other duties and special projects as assigned.

Other related duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in a health, science, or business field, or in lieu of a degree, four (4) years of related professional experience supporting clinical, ancillary, or business environments will be considered.

Two years of Epic experience. Strong knowledge of clinical information systems, clinical informatics, data management and administration.

Experience and proven success in information systems implementation, development and support within a large-scale healthcare organization required.

Active Epic Certification or Accreditation (considered) in relevant Core application required. Must have demonstrated experience working with clinicians in a support and / or educational role.

Able to exercise problem-solving skills, good judgment based on guiding principles, and organizational policies / practices.

Excellent verbal and written skills, strong interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and as a member of a team.

Must maintain current certification for primary EHR module(s) as a condition of employment.

Preferred Qualifications

Preferred 5-7 years previous clinical information systems experience or equivalent. Demonstrated experience as a major participant in an EHR configuration.

Ability to work with senior staff and managers, serving as a technical resource and providing advice and counsel on issues of functionality, efficiency, and performance.

Experience with online scheduling design and implementation preferred. ITIL Foundation certification is preferred. Associated Certification or Accreditation in Epic Cadence, Epic Prelude and Epic Decision Tree is preferred.

Salary Range

$75,000 + depending on qualifications

Working Conditions

Repetitive use of a keyboard at a workstation.

Use of manual dexterity

Required Materials

Resume / CV

3 work references with their contact information; at least one reference should be from a supervisor

Letter of interest

Important for applicants who are NOT current university employees or contingent workers : You will be prompted to submit your resume the first time you apply, then you will be provided an option to upload a new Resume for subsequent applications.

Any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.) will be uploaded in the Application Questions section;

you will be able to multi-select additional files. Before submitting your online job application, ensure that ALL Required Materials have been uploaded.

Once your job application has been submitted, you cannot make changes.

Important for Current university employees and contingent workers : As a current university employee or contingent worker, you MUST apply within Workday by searching for Find UT Jobs.

If you are a current University employee, log-in to Workday, navigate to your Worker Profile, click the Career link in the left hand navigation menu and then update the sections in your Professional Profile before you apply.

This information will be pulled in to your application. The application is one page and you will be prompted to upload your resume.

In addition, you must respond to the application questions presented to upload any additional Required Materials (letter of interest, references, etc.

that were noted above.

Employment Eligibility :

Regular staff who have been employed in their current position for the last six continuous months are eligible for openings being recruited for through University-Wide or Open Recruiting, to include both promotional opportunities and lateral transfers.

Staff who are promotion / transfer eligible may apply for positions without supervisor approval.

Retirement Plan Eligibility :

The retirement plan for this position is Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS), subject to the position being at least 20 hours per week and at least 135 days in length.

Background Checks :

A criminal history background check will be required for finalist(s) under consideration for this position.