Principal Pharmacy Application Analyst

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Organization:

HealthIT Outpat Pharmacy PG

Job Summary:

The Principal Pharmacy Application Analyst is responsible for driving the innovation, build, and integration of medication technology for VUMC. The role is primarily responsible for all maintenance and support for specialty pharmacy and ambulatory medications in the electronic health record across the enterprise. Business areas include electronic prescribing, immunizations, and electronic controlled substance monitoring. Position also acts as the liaison and subject matter expert for outpatient and specialty pharmacy operations.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• Designs, builds, installs, configures, and/or develops software to support clinical, administrative, financial and operational workflows.
• Analyzes clinical, administrative, financial or operational workflows supported by the assigned products and their relationship to the technical environment in which they operate.
• May perform analysis and design of supporting technical infrastructures.
• Supports clinical, administrative, financial, revenue, or operational implementations for assigned products which may also include testing and QA, reporting, product life cycle, communication/collaboration with customers and vendors, and training users.
• Assists with onboarding and training as needed.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES
• Technical Analysis (Advanced): Possesses detailed knowledge of assigned products’ functionality and interactions with other institutional systems. Works with vendors to recommend new functionality. Takes a lead role in addressing highly complex technical issues. Successfully designs, develops, builds, configures, installs, runs reports, and performs maintenance support without guidance from others. Optimizes and standardizes design and build.
Successfully handles multi-faceted and highly complex technical support issues. Generates and assigns tasks to others. Shares knowledge and trains others.
• Configuration Management and Planning (Advanced): Demonstrates the ability to apply diverse areas of business knowledge to successfully meet broad objectives independently. Able to communicate intelligently with users, customers, management, and business leaders on the impact of technology changes. Demonstrates ability to anticipate resource needs, identify discrete tasks, set priorities, define dependencies, schedule activities, and organize work for a diverse, multi-functional configuration plan. Competently handles multiple plans and projects simultaneously managing to commitments and deadlines while successfully navigating dependencies. Improves workflows and systems in the environment as plan results dictate.
• Testing (Advanced): Demonstrates mastery of test planning, processes, and tools in highly complex test situations. Identifies potential flaws in test plans and takes action to remedy them. Shares knowledge, raises the level of performance of others.
• Product Knowledge (Advanced): Demonstrates high levels of product knowledge. Is often relied upon by others for knowledge of the product and plays a lead role in projects related to the product. Has some experience in developing/supporting applications specific to the product.
• Problem Management (Advanced): Demonstrates the uppermost levels of expertise in Incident Tracking and Problem Reporting in challenging and complex situations. Clearly articulates incidents and problems in a way that improves chances of quick resolution. Provides solutions that improve the design and architecture of the system. Makes recommendations that are creative and imaginative while setting a standard for others. Often takes a lead role in highly pressurized situations when there is a need to achieve results.
• Business Knowledge (Advanced): Demonstrates the ability to apply div