Application Analyst

• Remote: Yes

• Area of Interest: Information Systems & Technical Support

• FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.0

• Department: IT Clinical Applications

• Shift: Monday-Friday, standard business hours

• Job ID: 187669

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!

Location: Remote - applicants preferrably reside within the UnityPoint Health footprint of Iowa, Illinois, or Wisconsin. Some travel required.

Hours: Monday-Friday, standard business hours

Why UnityPoint Health?

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in.   Here are just a few:    

• Expect paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program .

• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long-term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four-legged family members.

• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career and adoption assistance to help you grow your family .

With a collective goal to champion a culture of belonging where everyone feels valued and respected, we honor the ways people are unique and embrace what brings us together.  

And, we believe equipping you with support and development opportunities is a vital part of delivering an exceptional employment experience.

Find a fulfilling career and make a difference with UnityPoint Health.

Responsibilities

Business Analysis, Requirements, Definition, & Management:

• 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.

• 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 andfeasibility 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

Enterprise & Business Architecture:

• Contributes to the creation and review of a systems capability strategy to ensure it meets the strategic requirements

• Develops models and plans to drive forward the strategy, taking advantage of opportunities to improve business performance

• Understands HIPAA standards, regulatory, and security requirements pertaining to database, server, and/or application management

Emerging Technology Monitoring:

• Monitors the market to gain knowledge and understanding of currently emerging technologies

• Identifies new and emerging hardware and software technologies and products based on own area of expertise

• Contributes to briefings of staff and management

Service Delivery & Operational Coordination:

• Leads decision-making discussions to determine strategy for implementation of tools and systems

• Continuously monitor and update release schedules and version updates of applications

• Assess the potential impacts of upgrades, optimization and implementation on existing workflows, integrations, and user experience

• Communicates upgrade, optimization and implementation plans and timelines to all relevant stakeholders, including business and clinical owners, business and clinical users, IT staff, and executive leadership

• Develops test plans and ensures applications have updated comprehensive test plans including unit testing, system testing, integrated testing, and user acceptance testing (UAT)

• Coordinates the deployment of upgrades, implementations and optimizations in collaboration with IT operations, ensuring minimal disruption to business processes and services

• Recommends and implements appropriate security processes, templates and configurations for supported applications

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

• Qualifications

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