Business Analyst 3

Job Title: Business Analyst
Location: Richmond, VA(Hybrid)
Duration: 9+ months Contract (Possible extension)

Position Description:
Looking for a highly motivated, proactive, analytical person with Electronic Health Record and Revenue Cycle Financial experience (patient accounting, billing, claims).
The EHR Analyst fulfills a set of general responsibilities during different project phases. The EHR Analyst will work closely with functional and business Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) across Project Team WorkGroups. This role is hybrid, with Virginia-based candidates preferred, Richmond, VA highly desired.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Act as the primary EHR resource dedicated to data collection and system design.
• Actively participate in Site visits where design decisions are made and planned for implementation
• Coordinate solution-specific activities with the non-traveling team while ensuring best design for the client is implemented
• Act as liaison for the client and Vendor activities while on-site and while homework deliverables are completed outside of the Site visits
• Implement solution design decisions, assuming responsibility for solution specific implementation
• Assist with policy and procedure development for designated department/function responsibilities
• Work with the departmental/functional team to develop and execute unit and system test scripts
• Develop procedures for system troubleshooting and training
• Follow requirement elicitation strategies to gather requirements from business stakeholders
• Represent requirements in process flow and other suitable pictorial diagrams as needed
• Facilitate development of integrated workflow
• Ensure user journey is clearly understood, replicated with newer processes and suggest enhancements when applicable
• Communicates Risk implications to Risk/Project Manager
• Assist with system validation and ensure Requirements are met
• Participates an Integration Testing and go-live team member
• Provide application systems assistance to the departmental/functional team, particularly in technology and system-related areas
• Investigate and help resolve application problems
• Support End User Training
• Provide ongoing post go-live solution support for the Health Districts
• Develop a basic knowledge of Discern Explorer, command languages, system operations and interface usage
• Coordinate and participate in the auditing of current database in preparation for a history upload
• Facilitate project conference calls, status meetings, planning sessions, and provide for meeting notes
• Support the Project manager in review of Project initiation steps such as RFPs, SOW, managing Agile tools, working closely with vendor team when applicable
• Utilizing system-based project management applications, collaboration applications, and MS Office applications; Visio, SharePoint, Teams, etc.

Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years as an Analyst / performing Analyst role
• 3+ years in healthcare health IT, clinical, research, financial
• 3+ years experience working with EHR applications
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication skills
• Effective communication skills and collaborative work style
• Background in healthcare information systems, data analysis, and familiarity with EHR implementation or optimization
• Proficiency in programming languages (SQL, Java, and CCL. Cerner Command Language-nice to have), database management, and software development life cycles
• Experience as analyst for EHR system, Cerner Millennium / Oracle Health EHR preferred
• Knowledge of clinically driven revenue cycle
• Knowledge of relational databases (SQL), system development lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies, quality assurance techniques, and change management procedures
• Able to manage, coordinate, and prioritize multiple activities concurrently with limited supervision and to adjust efficiently and effectively to changing priorities.
• Knowledge and experience using multiple project management methodologies such as Waterfall, Iterative, and Agile
• Bachelor's degree in Healthcare/Informatics, Information Technology, Information Systems or Computer Science, or equivalent experience