Duration: 5 months to start

Job Description
The Application Analyst is responsible for maintaining, optimizing, and supporting healthcare applications, including implementing system upgrades, fixing defects, and ensuring data integrity. The role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, educating end users, and analyzing workflows to configure application solutions that improve productivity and operational efficiency. Additionally, the analyst manages change control procedures, documentation, and testing to ensure successful application enhancements and compliance.

Application Analyst:

• Responsible for enhancing, supporting, and maintaining an application within the health system.
• Responsibilities include optimization of the application through development of new functionality, testing and implementing scheduled vendor releases and system upgrades, and fixing system defects.
• Provide technical and functional application analysis, define system requirements, and develop logical date models using best practices for build and configuration, maintenance and data integrity.
• Works with cross functional application teams and provide education on system functionality, and configuration of new tools to increase end user productivity within the application.
• Ensure system changes follow change management procedures and protocols, create and maintain all documentation for all assigned applications, and develop, plan and execute testing for supported applications.
• Communicates all necessary application changes, enhancements, and procedures to all necessary internal department teams.

• Delivers customer service to IS clients seamlessly across system boundaries
• Ensures safety, confidentiality & security of employee and Patient data
• Assists/Trains internal team members, physicians, clinical and practice staff in the utilization of functionality within the application
• Promptly identifies, documents, and resolves problems with system functionality
• Consults with the key client stakeholders and cross-functional team members to gather and interpret documented build requirements for implementation projects
• Coordinates and adheres to strict implementation project schedules, and handle multiple assignments
• Communicates clearly problems, issues and potential solutions to team members, clients and organizational administration
• Researches and analyze new functionality, and releases within the EMR to enhance practice productivity and operational processes
• Develop a thorough understanding of EMR applications
• Interprets and analyzes workflow/system requirements in order to design, configure, test and implement application solutions
• Assists in defining system requirements, and develops logical data models using best practices for build and configuration, maintenance and data integrity
• Create and maintains all documentation for assigned applications in order to establish standards for configuration and enhancements within the application
• Executes test plans that are comprehensive and inclusive of application functionality changes and/or enhancements to ensure successful outcomes
• Participates in system upgrades and scheduled vendor releases as requested to enhance the application and meet project objectives.
• Collaborates with management to develop departmental standards regarding change control to ensure accurate data tracking and monitors change process by maintaining current protocols and reporting any problems to appropriate personnel
• Works independently on complex projects completing within the designated timeframe and under minimal guidance
• Provides ongoing support and maintenance as assigned