Epic Senior Clinical Applications Analyst

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

We are seeking a self-reliant Clinical Applications Analyst to support our EMR development team—a group of seven highly skilled analysts—providing expedient service support, impactful analysis, and quality project delivery. This role is central to advancing healthcare technology solutions that support more than 65 outpatient clinics and several inpatient units, spanning diverse and complex service lines such as Clements Emergency Department, Rapid Diagnostic Unit, & Oncology Treatment Areas. This analyst will maintain and pursue ongoing Trauma Certification, Trauma Registry, Fast Track Care Areas, Mass Casualty Readiness and Interfacility Transfers, including other departments as assigned.
As a Clinical Applications Analyst, you will serve as a catalyst for innovation, guiding your team through high-impact projects that directly support clinical operations and patient care. You will contribute to daily I.T. operations, ensure optimal team performance, and participate in cross-functional initiatives with internal partners across EMR teams, Health System Information Resources (HSIR), academic and administrative IT, and clinical leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, or other related fields
• 5 years business systems and/or project experience with exposure to systems or project development and testing, installation, and training
• May consider additional years of related experience in lieu of degree.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Records time spent on projects to meet cost-recovery requirements.
• May supervise lower level analysts.
• 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