Epic Ambulatory Applications Analyst - FT - Days (73478)

JOB SUMMARY 

The Epic Ambulatory Application Analyst's primary role is to have a complete working knowledge of the assigned application, to include an understanding of department workflows for the associated system build, configuration, upgrade and release processes. The Epic Ambulatory Application Analyst will act as the primary support contact for the application, respond to issues that arise in their area of responsibility, and be very knowledgeable about the organization's policies, procedures, and business operations. They will resolve issues with the associated software by performing workflow analysis, data collection, building and testing. The Epic Application Analyst will serve as a liaison between team, end users, third parties and technical staff. They will work with end users by participating in training and troubleshooting issues and questions.  

JOB QUALIFICATIONS 

Education: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or 4 years’ experience in an IT or clinical setting within a healthcare environment. 

Licensure: Credentials in clinical practice or health information technologies are preferred. Epic Certification is required (May hire into position without certification but must attain certification within first 45 days of Vitruvian Health (VH) sponsored Epic training to continue employment). 

Experience: Two (2+) years applicable IT or clinical experience. One (1+) year of Hospital/Health Care organizational experience.  

 Skills: Complete Epic Ambulatory application system knowledge. Requires in-depth knowledge and experience. Has developed deep conceptual and practical expertise in own discipline and basic knowledge of related disciplines. Understands workflows and makes thoughtful recommendations on the fly. Creates unique solutions based on experiences and knowledge of other's build/configure and workflows. Incorporates future software direction into recommendations. Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with others, gain trust and build/configure strong relationships. Flexibility and adaptability with respect to changing end user business needs.  Seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence bring effective solutions to complex customer problems.  The ability to persevere in difficult situations, overcome obstacles, and reach high levels of performance when faced with stressful work situations and time pressures.  The willingness to put forth extra effort when required, including demonstrating persistence in the face of obstacles and adversity. A highly motivated, detail and service oriented individual that enjoys working with others in a team, that can accurately set priorities, work effectively with minimal direction in a job environment involving creative leadership, possessing written and verbal communication skills, problem solving, organizational and technical skills which include PC familiarization;  A technical and functional understanding of hospital, clinic, and related information systems that will allow credibility in the eyes of VH management, end users, other Informatics Team members, consultants and vendors;  Computer skill set and/or enhanced specialty area workflow knowledge that encompasses intrinsic troubleshooting knowledge and operation optimization strategies;  Familiar with a variety of the field's code sets, concepts, practices, and procedures.  Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.  Performs a variety of complicated tasks. May lead and direct the work of others.  A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected while enforcing established standards.  Additionally, the Epic Analyst may provide consultation on complex projects and is considered to be a top level contributor/specialist that can make it happen. A working knowledge of processes performed by the specific areas in health information served, Administrative, operational and technical skills necessary to properly identify, justify and fulfill departmental automation requirement