Clinic Specialist Analyst I

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

23d

About The Position

This position requires proven experience providing advanced user training and education, as well as supporting implementation, testing, and ongoing optimization of pharmacy information technology, informatics solutions. The UT Southwestern HSIR Pharmacy Team is the leader in developing, implementing, and evaluating effective pharmaceutical solutions for healthcare workers and the people/patients that they serve. This pharmacist position supports the growing needs of our pharmacy technology, informatics and clinical decision support initiatives within the EMR and bridges clinical pharmacy and IT, enhancing medication safety, workflow optimization, and regulatory compliance across both inpatient and ambulatory settings. This role will be responsible for providing advanced subject matter expertise in pharmacy workflows, medication management systems, and regulatory compliance within Epic. Incumbent must reside in the Dallas Ft. Worth Metroplex or be willing to relocate. This position does not support H1B visa sponshorship.

Requirements

• Pharmacy degree from ACPE accredited school, current licensure by State Board of Pharmacy, Physican assistant graduate from an ARC-PA accredited school, current licensure by the State of Texas or Master's Degree Must have current licensure as a Registered Nurse through the National Council Licensure Examination ‿ Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Must be credentialed through the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners or American Nurses Credentialing Center or
• Master's Degree Degree in health informatics, healthcare management, computer science, data science or related health technology field, or
• PACS Administrator (Must have knowledge and training of Imaging Informatics, Solutions Engineer, Clinical Analys, Application Analyst or System Engineer) and High School Diploma or equivalent with PACS Administrator
• 3 years Experience in clinical systems and/or project management

Nice To Haves

• Experience in a clinical setting
• PACS certification (Certified PACS Associate- CPAS, Certified DICOM Integration Professional- CDIP, Certified PACS Systems Analyst- CPSA)
• Certification in a core health informatics application preferred but not required (e.g., Epic Cogito or Healthy Planet Analytics, Cerner HealtheAnalytics, Microsoft Azure, AWS, or equivalent)
• Certification in project management and/or business analysis preferred but not required (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, Disciplined Agile Scrum Master, PMI-Agile Certified Professional, PMI-Professional in Business Analysis, Certified Business Analysis Professional)

Responsibilities

• Manages projects and serves as primary customer contact. Defines and maintains project plan and schedules. Monitors compliance with definitions of project scope, timelines, and deliverables. Provides regular project status reports to customer and internal management. Assists business analysts of lower grade to coordinate projects.
• Collects, interprets, and documents specifications required to develop new and revise existing software applications. Develops and implements operational plans for new and existing business computer applications. Participates in development of project proposals for customers.
• Monitor PACS activities and resources, diagnoses system hardware and software problems, perform monitor calibrations, validates computer workstations, resolves problems according to established policies and procedures as required by assigned team.
• Coordinates testing of new applications and changes to existing applications to ensure integrity and quality of data while providing and/or assisting in training of system users. Defines and develops test scenarios. Documents and tracks status of application errors and related issues in problem log. Assist programmers and business analysts of lower grade in analyzing and resolving problems.
• Other preferred technical skills: Citrix, VM (knowledge of ESX features), storage concepts, system administration, networking, IP routing, VLAN, troubleshooting connectivity and latency issues, shell scripting, SQL, integration with cloud hosted apps, database clusters, backup strategies, hardware configuration and server requests.
• Compiles complete, concise, and comprehensive policies and operation procedures to assist in communicating issues to applicable management staff.
• Develops new system administrative procedures required utilizing new functionality resulting from system changes.
• Assists in developing and implementing business strategies in departments to improve operational processing and productivity.
• Monitors development of specifications and establishes priorities for accomplishing design and testing of various projects.
• Reviews, develops, recommends, and implements activities, programs or functions as assigned. Maintains and tracks accounts assigned to projects or programs. Develops and maintains project plans. Provides project status reports.
• Assists with a process improvement/quality improvement project committee to develop a solution to identified problems.
• Routinely recommends and documents clinical interventions that should be taken in the electronic medical record.
• Super user trainer for a new program or initiative and provides training to staff for Implementation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees