LIS/Data Management Technician, Day Shift, Capital Choice Pathology Lab
About The Position
Adventist HealthCare’s Capital Choice Pathology Lab is hiring an experienced LIS/Data Management Technician for its Silver Spring, Maryland laboratory. The role supports and improves CoPath and related laboratory information systems for anatomic pathology workflows, translating clinical and operational requirements into secure, maintainable solutions aligned with organizational standards. The technician develops and supports interfaces and reports; manages pathology data and analytics; monitors production services and resolves incidents; and plans and performs testing for system changes. The role partners with laboratory and technical stakeholders to improve system usability, reliability, and efficiency while meeting privacy, security, regulatory, quality, and operational requirements. After-hours support may be needed for upgrades, deployments, planned maintenance, and major incidents, and occasional travel may be required for training, project work, or vendor coordination. This is a full-time, exempt position scheduled for 40 hours per week, Monday through Friday, on a day shift. Start time is flexible between 7:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. The listed pay range is $71,932.12–$107,889.60.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, health informatics, medical laboratory science, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience may be considered.
- At least 1 year of experience configuring, developing, supporting, or optimizing CoPath, CoPathPlus, or a comparable laboratory information system.
- Experience supporting anatomic pathology workflows, SQL-based report writing and data analysis, healthcare interfaces, testing, and production issue resolution.
- Ability to provide after-hours support for upgrades, deployments, planned maintenance, and major incidents as needed.
- Occasional travel may be required for training, project work, or vendor coordination.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant CoPath or CoPathPlus vendor training.
- HL7, ITIL, or another applicable healthcare information technology certification.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, configure, and maintain CoPath functionality for anatomic pathology workflows, including accessioning, case management, gross examination, histology, cytology, result entry, case sign-out, and reporting.
- Develop and support interfaces between CoPath and electronic health records, billing systems, reference laboratories, instruments, digital pathology platforms, and other applications.
- Gather requirements and create, validate, document, and optimize reports, queries, report logic, templates, dictionaries, rules, and data extracts using CoPath reporting tools, SQL, and approved data sources.
- Investigate interface errors and data-quality issues and resolve them.
- Monitor and support production services in a 24x7 healthcare environment; triage incidents, analyze defects, perform root-cause analysis, restore service, communicate status, and implement corrective actions.
- Manage, validate, and maintain pathology data for accuracy, integrity, accessibility, and compliance.
- Perform data analysis and reconciliation using SQL and Microsoft Excel tools, including pivot tables, formulas, dashboards, validation routines, and data visualization techniques.
- Support operational, financial, quality, and regulatory reporting through data extraction, trend analysis, KPI development, auditing, and ad hoc reporting.
- Collaborate with laboratory leadership and stakeholders on process improvement and data-driven decision-making.
- Plan and execute unit, integration, regression, and user-acceptance testing for enhancements, patches, upgrades, and interfaces.
- Support change control, deployment, validation, and post-production monitoring; maintain technical specifications, configuration records, test evidence, and support procedures.
- Partner with pathologists, laboratory staff, informatics, cybersecurity, infrastructure, vendors, and other stakeholders to prioritize work and improve systems.
- Ensure solutions meet privacy, security, regulatory, quality, and operational requirements.
- Provide after-hours support for upgrades, deployments, planned maintenance, and major incidents as needed; travel occasionally for training, project work, or vendor coordination.
- Perform additional duties as assigned.
Benefits
- Work-life balance through nonrotating shifts.
- Recognition and rewards for professional expertise.
- Free employee parking.
- Medical, prescription, dental, and vision coverage for employees and eligible dependents effective on the date of hire.
- Employer-paid short- and long-term disability, basic life insurance, and AD&D; short-term disability buy-up is available.
- Paid Time Off.
- Employer retirement contribution and match after one year of eligible employment, with a three-year vesting period.
- Voluntary benefits include flexible spending accounts, legal plans, and life, pet, auto, home, long-term care, and critical illness and accident insurance.
- Subsidized childcare at participating childcare centers.
- Tuition reimbursement.
- Employee Assistance Program support.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
