Application Solutions Analyst Sr
Role Overview
We are seeking an Application Solutions Analyst Senior to join our team at UnityPoint Health!
This position plays a critical role in ensuring that applications are effectively evaluated, implemented, maintained, optimized, and decommissioned.
The Senior Analyst will forge partnerships with customers to determine needs, understand application capabilities, and complete workflow analysis, design and documentation.
Applicants can expect to be responsible for architecture design and process workflow design/ review of enterprise applications in their domain and the associated implementation and optimization designs .
This role works collaboratively with operational stakeholders, portfolio leadership, informatics, Applications Solutions Architects, project management and Managed Service Providers to ensure alignment with organizational and business needs.
We are looking for candidates that have a deep understanding of application workflows, standards, and capabilities and the ability to collaborate with various stakeholders to achieve the organization's goals.
Candidates that have experience with supporting order workflows and order transmittals in an ambulatory or hospital setting are encouraged to apply!
Full Job Posting
Application Rationalization, Data Migration, & Decomissioning
- Develops detailed project plans for the decommissioning of domain applications, including timelines, resource allocation, and risk management
- Ensures that data from decommissioned applications is securely and accurately migrated to new systems or archived according to regulatory requirements
- Informs all relevant stakeholders about decommissioning plans and timelines, addressing any concerns or questions they may have
- Oversees the safe and orderly shutdown of decommissioned applications, ensuring all dependencies are addressed
- Creates support plans for the transition period following decommissioning and ensures issues that arise are addressed
- Ensures that all decommissioning activities are thoroughly documented, including lessons learned and best practices for future projects
- Maintains an up-to-date inventory of all domain applications within the organization
- Performs regular usage analysis to identify underutilized or redundant applications
- Works with clinical, business and IT leaders to prioritize applications for rationalization based on strategic goals and resource availability
- Conducts cost-benefit analyses to assess the impact of continuing, consolidating, or decommissioning applications
- Develops and executes plans to streamline the application portfolio, reducing complexity and improving efficiency
- Education:
- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business, Finance, Information Technology, Healthcare Administration, Nursing, or equivalent relevant work experience
- Preferred: Master’s degree in Computer Science; Computer and Information Sciences or other Science, Technology, Business and Clinical disciplines
- Licenses/Certifications:
- Required: Experience with supporting supporting order workflows
- Preferred: Epic Certification in Order Transmittals, Ambulatory, or Inpatient Orders
- Preferred: Project Management Professional
- Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Strong knowledge of health care organization information systems processes and in-depth understanding of healthcare workflows, regulatory requirements, and best practices in application management
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities and ability to conduct research into technology issues, standards and products
Requirements
- Takes responsibility for investigative work to determine business requirements and specify effective business processes
- Facilitates scoping and business priority setting for large or complex changes, engaging senior stakeholders as required.
- Drives the requirements elicitation process where necessary, identifying what stakeholder input is required.
- Obtains formal agreement from a large and diverse range of stakeholders and recipients to the scope and requirements, plus the establishment of a base-line on which delivery of a solution can commence.
- Takes responsibility for the investigation and application of changes to program scope.
- Identifies the impact on business requirements of external impacts affecting a program or project.
- Collaborates with business and clinical users and stakeholders to gather and document business and clinical requirements for new applications and optimizations.
- Conducts feasibility studies to evaluate the technical and operational viability of new applications and optimizations. This includes assessing compatibility with existing systems and infrastructure.
- Evaluates potential vendors and third-party solutions, ensuring they meet the organization’s standards and requirements.
- Develops and presents prototypes or proof-of-concept applications and configurations to stakeholders for feedback and approval.
- Applies and monitors the use of required modelling and analysis tools, methods and standards, giving special consideration to business perspectives.
- Conducts investigations at a high level for strategy studies, business requirements specifications and feasibility studies.
- Identifies stakeholders and their business needs; prepares business cases which define potential benefits, options for achieving these benefits through development of new or changed processes, and associated business risks
- Strong knowledge of health care organization information systems processes and in-depth understanding of healthcare workflows, regulatory requirements, and best practices in application management
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities and ability to conduct research into technology issues, standards and products
About UnityPoint Health
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