Epic Senior Analyst, HIM

University of Miami; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Tuition remission

Remote work opportunity

Job summary

The University of Miami Health System (UHealth) seeks an Epic Senior Analyst, HIM for a full-time remote position. You will optimize HIM configurations, serve as primary end-user contact, and guide design, testing, and maintenance of the Epic HIM application.

Responsibilities include collaboration with stakeholders, issue resolution, and training coordination. Requires HIM domain knowledge, Epic certificates, and 3–5 years of healthcare experience; evenings/weekends possible.

Qualifications

• Epic certification in Hospital Coding Administration, Deficiency Tracking Administration, Release of Information Administration, Identity are required.
• 3-5 years of experience in healthcare or healthcare-related organization preferred.
• Ability to work evenings, nights, and weekends as necessary.
• Familiarity with HIM processes: Chart Tracking, Release of Information, Deficiency Tracking, and Coding.

Responsibilities

• Collaborates with stakeholders, end-users, and team members to optimize configuration, function, and access.
• Serves as primary support contact for application end-users.
• Initiates design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the HIM application.
• Performs testing and documents workflow design.
• Analyzes IT impact on clinical workflows and supports issue resolution.
• Mentors junior analysts and supports day-to-day operations.

Skills

Epic certification

HIM domain knowledge

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Tools

Microsoft Office

MPI Interfaces

Job description

The University of Miami Health System (\"UHealth\") IT Department has an exciting opportunity for a full-time Epic Senior Analyst, HIM to work remotely.

Core Responsibilities

• Collaborates with key stakeholders, end-users, and application team members to optimize the application’s configuration, function, and access.
• Serves as a primary support contact for application end-users.
• Initiates the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the application.
• Initiates all phases of testing and the documentation of workflow design.
• Performs the analysis of information technology in clinical work processes and validates the impacts to the workflow.
• Initiates the identification of issues and guides the work to resolve them.
• Supports junior staff members in the evaluation and resolution of service tickets, identification and implementation of application changes, retrieval of requested data, and execution of day-to-day operations.
• Collaborates with trainers on application changes and new features to develop documentation and training strategies.
• Works with stakeholders, the business community, and end users to ensure the application meets UHealth's business/clinical needs.
• Participates in on-call rotations and support and attend and participates in applicable committees.
• Maintains regular communication with team members, including participating in weekly project team meetings.
• Reviews the status of projects and issues on an ongoing basis with leadership.
• Remains knowledgeable about UHealth’s policies, procedures, and business operations.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Department Specific Functions

• Initiates the implementation, builds, and modifies of the HIM applications.
• Providing oversight and leadership to Associate Epic Analysts and Epic Analysts on the team.
• Serves as a primary support contact for application end-users.
• Initiates the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of the application.
• Initiates all phases of testing and the documentation of workflow design.
• Performs the analysis of information technology in clinical work processes and validates the impacts to the workflow.
• Initiates the identification of issues and guides the work to resolve them.
• Supports junior staff members in the evaluation and resolution of service tickets, identification and implementation of application changes, retrieval of requested data, and execution of day-to-day operations.
• Collaborates with trainers on application changes and new features to develop documentation and training strategies.
• Works with stakeholders, the business community, and end users to ensure the application meets UHealth's business/clinical needs.
• Participate in on-call rotations and support and attend and participate in applicable committees.
• Travel to the job site during go-lives, conferences, rounding, and/or senior leadership meetings.
• Maintains regular communication with team members, including participating in weekly project team meetings.
• Review. the status of projects and issues on an ongoing basis with leadership.
• Remains knowledgeable about UHealth’s policies, procedures, and business operations.
• Adheres to University and unit-level policies and procedures and safeguards University assets.

Core Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in relevant field.
• Epic certificate in Hospital Coding Administration, Deficiency Tracking Administration, Release of Information Administration, Identity are required.
• 3-5 years of experience, preferably in healthcare or healthcare-related organization.
• Ability to work evenings, nights, and weekends as necessary.
• Previous operational, project management, and organizational skills.
• Ability to work evenings, nights, and weekends as necessary.
• Familiarity with processes that fall under HIM: Chart Tracking, Release of Information, Deficiency Tracking, and Coding preferred.
• Familiarity with transcription and scanning workflows and vendors, and confidentiality and privacy guidelines preferred.
• Detailed knowledge of Master Patient Index (MPI) interfaces and other sources of patient information preferred.
• Understanding of duplicate patient management processes preferred.
• Microsoft Office Suite: Word, PowerPoint, Project, Visio, Excel.
• Problem Solving: Seeking, logically examining, and interpreting information from different sources to determine a problem's cause and developing a course of action to resolve the problem and to prevent its recurrence.
• Dependability: Ability and willingness to take ownership of work activities and ensure that they are completed in an accurate, efficient, and timely manner.
• Critical Thinking: Ability and willingness to see things in an open-minded way and examine an idea or concept from as many angles as possible.
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to work effectively with all levels of employees including senior leadership.
• Any appropriate combination of relevant education, experience and/or certifications may be considered.

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine. As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year. Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.

Job Status: Full time Employee Type: Staff

The mission of the University of Miami is to transform lives through education, research, innovation, and service.

A vibrant and diverse academic and healthcare community, the University of Miami and the University of Miami Health System (\"UHealth\") have rapidly progressed to become one of the nation’s top research universities and academic medical centers in the nation. The University comprises 12 schools and colleges serving undergraduate and graduate students in more than 350 majors and programs. Visit welcome.miami.edu/about-um to learn more about our points of pride. The University ranks No. 55 on U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 Best Colleges list and ranked No. 49 in the 2022 Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education College Rankings. Bascom Palmer Eye Institute is ranked the #1 eye hospital in the USA and offers some of the nation's premiere eye doctors to treat every eye condition for adults. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer, part of the Miller School of Medicine, received the prestigious National Cancer Institute designation in 2019. The University of Miami and UHealth have also ranked among the Forbes Best Employers and Best Employers for Women on several occasions, most recently in 2022. With more than 17,000 faculty and staff, the University strives for excellence, and is driven by a powerful mission to transform and impact the lives of its students, patients, members of the community, and people across the globe.

The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination based on certain categories protected by Federal law.