Clinical Pharmacist - IT Systems, Full Time

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The University of Miami Hospital and Clinics Sylvester Cancer Center has an exciting opportunity for a Full Time Clinical Pharmacist - IT Systems.

GENERAL  DESCRIPTION:

The position of Clinical Pharmacist - IT Systems for the pharmacy department is the subject matter expert that will actively contribute to the design, development, implementation, analysis, support, and maintenance of the EPIC Willow/Beacon Hematology/Oncology Clinical Application for the UHealth System.  This individual provides technical support to the application and provides an analysis of system requirements and specifications.  The Clinical Pharmacist for IT Systems applications provides the necessary experience and knowledge to ensure that all aspects of the Clinical Application integrates with the other cross functional applications utilized by the organization.  They will leverage their clinical expertise and lead opportunities to aid in the delivery of quality patient care across the UHealth System.  This person must work effectively in a team environment, have relevant Epic Willow/Beacon and Hematology/Oncology clinical experience preferred and be able to serve as a liaison between Pharmacy and the EPIC IT teams.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works with Epic and Vendor resources and the U Health organization as well as user community to ensure the application meets the organizations needs.

• Works with other clinical teams to determine ways in which those applications can support the Hematology/Oncology and Pharmacy workflows.

• Review and understand system options in the Clinical Applications and Epic Beacon and Willow application specifications and make recommendations. Perform in -depth analysis of workflows, charge methods, pharmacy build, report details, and other technical issues associated with the Clinical Applications and Epic Software.

• Participate in application testing, simulations, and go-live activities, including production support of new projects or production enhancements.

• Prioritize and implement requested changes to the system.

• Analyze new functionality in new releases to determine how it should be used.

• Participate in on-site support after system implementation, application enhancements or system upgrades.

• Participate in on-site support after system implementation, application enhancements or system upgrades.

• Review operational policies and procedures to assess the need for user training for technology-enabled workflows.

• Develop system workflows to integrate system functionality with operational procedures. Participate in business and clinical operations meetings to assess user feedback, gather future requirements for modifications and provide a status to the group on competency, adoptions and utilization rates.

• Collaborate with Business and Clinical System Analysts to ensure knowledge transfer of the technology-enabled user workflows and best practice use of the application .

• Monitor assigned Magic Incident Reports and make referrals, direct issues appropriately, and resolve as applicable in a timely manner. Coordinate with application analysts to resolve issue tickets and communicates resolution to end users.

• Ability to independently investigate and learn application and documentation software with minimal support.

• Capable of independent decision making to meet the needs of the position, yet willing and able to collaborate with other team members.

• Facilitate Oncology executive committee meetings to establish prioritization of protocol build, naming conventions, standardization of Standard of Care (SOC) protocols, policies and procedures to include protocol request, build, review and approval process.