Clinical Application Specialist

InterSystems; Dublin; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

InterSystems in Ireland seeks a Clinical Application Specialist to apply healthcare and InterSystems product knowledge to contract and implement standard solutions. The role involves becoming an expert Nursing/Doctor/Midwife resource for customers and advising on process improvements while minimizing bespoke work.

The position requires travel to customer sites (up to 5 days away from home) and collaboration with multiple business areas.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience training customers and conducting workshops.
• Experience interacting with clinicians and healthcare staff.
• Minimum 3 years in healthcare and understanding clinical processes.
• Experience with EMR/HIS systems.
• Ability to document requirements and design specifications.

Responsibilities

• Review proposals and identify gaps in functionality with customers.
• Analyse customer processes and map to InterSystems solutions.
• Prepare solution presentations and workshops with clients.
• Set up customer site configurations and validation scripts.
• Validate configurations, migrate data, and log issues.
• Provide on-site go-live support and training.
• Collaborate with product teams to implement changes.
• Disseminate knowledge and document handover materials.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of TrakCare product releases.

Skills

Excellent communication

Customer training delivery

Consultative skills

Experience with clinicians

EMR systems

Hospital Information Systems

Nursing/Medical clinical experience

Documentation writing

Business process mapping

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing or Medicine

Job description

• Support customer validation

The Clinical Application Specialist will use their healthcare, business and InterSystems product knowledge to ensure that we contract and implement InterSystems products in a successful, standard and timely manner. The Application Specialist will become an “expert” Nursing/ Doctor/Midwife resource for customers and will be expected to understand the customer process, assess solution best fit and advise the customer how to best implement the standard solution as early as possible. Advise the customer on driving maximum benefits from the solution, whilst keeping customer specific work to an absolute minimum and liaise with various areas of the business on these accordingly. It is therefore essential, that they keep up to date with new product developments as they become available through the normal product release cycle. The Clinical Application Specialist must be available to visit customer sites and may be assigned to projects that require regular travel with the possibility of spending up to 5 days away from home each week.

Key Responsibilities

The Application Specialist will act in accordance with the latest version of the InterSystems ARIES Customer Engagement Methodology, which will be modified from time to time as part of our ongoing culture of continuous improvement. The Application Specialist will undertake the following:

Discovery

• Review proposal and tender documentation prior to release to customer and inform colleagues on gaps in areas of functionality


• Analyse customer processes


• Identify gaps and possible solutions


• Run Edition Proposed solution presentations with the customer.

Launch

• Run Edition Customer Induction workshops


• Consult and advise the customer as to how adopting InterSystems solution could benefit the customer to improve their existing processes


• Propose solutions for customer problems by mapping existing product components and minimize the need for variations from standard ISC products lines including where relevant Regional Editions


• Produce clear documentation (business requirements/maps, solution design document, validation scripts)


• Work with the customer to ensure early data collection information is gathered correctly and as per the schedule


• Log any additional configuration through Edition change process and follow up with product team to close the configurations

Setup

• Set up customer site configuration


• Create validation scripts for verifying agreed configuration


• Participate in validating the configured system based on solution design


• Participate in validating the migrated data to ensure it works with the solution


• Log errors following the standard corporate procedure


• Support customer validation


• Troubleshoot customer issues during implementation phases


• Follow-up on test fixes and work with the Project Manager/Product Team to implement fix


• Distinguish issues from change requests and log following standard corporate procedure


• Document Handover Documentation for Support

Adoption

• Participate in Dry Run process


• Prepare Train the trainer material


• Conduct individual and group training, product demonstrations and workshops as required


• Train Customer Trainers on TrakCare functions as per customer solution


• Provide on-site support to Customer Go-Live

Sustain

• Liaise with other InterSystems departments to resolve any remaining issues


• Complete the support handover process

On-going responsibilities

• Support colleagues and assist in spreading application knowledge


• Maintain consistent and traceable documentation as required


• Learn new functionalities available on the TrakCare product

Essential Skills and Experience

• Excellent communication skills and experience of conducting customer training, workshops and/or presentations


• Excellent consultative skills ability to articulate and communicate ideas


• Experience interacting directly with customers, including clinicians, and confidently delivering strong messaging


• At least 3 years’ experience working in healthcare and a good understanding of clinical processes


• Experience with EMR systems


• Understanding and experience with Hospital Information, Patient Administration (PAS), and Clinical Information Systems


• Experience working in a nursing role within a hospital environment.


• Experience contributing to a multi-disciplined team


• Experience with writing functional documents


• Experience of business process mapping


• Knowledge of Information Systems

Desirable

• Experience in communicating with key stakeholders at various levels within healthcare organisations which may be government/public and/or private sector businesses


• Experience implementing software solutions


• Exposure to IT services in a customer-facing setting


• Previous experience as an Application or Configuration Specialist


• Previous experience of change management


• Good computer skills


• Experience conducting software testing

Education & Training

Desirable

• University degree- Nursing/ Medicine Degree


• Clinical specialty


• Proficiency in English

About InterSystems

InterSystems, a creative data technology provider, delivers a unified foundation for next-generation applications for healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and supply chain customers in more than 80 countries. Our data platforms solve interoperability, speed, and scalability problems for large organizations around the globe to unlock the power of data and allow people to perceive data in imaginative ways. Established in 1978, InterSystems is committed to excellence through its 24×7 support for customers and partners around the world. Privately held and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, InterSystems has 38 offices in 28 countries worldwide. For more information, please visit InterSystems.com.

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