Clinical Business Analyst Level I

Duties & Responsibilities Purpose of Position : Under varying levels of direction and expertise, the individual is responsible for the on‑going assessment, design, development, and implementation of system‑wide clinical systems. This includes collecting and transforming large quantities of information into meaningful business requirements; developing and modifying requirements documentation for the design and implementation of clinical information systems; critically evaluating information from various sources; distinguishing user needs from actual business needs; and partnering with business users, project managers, programmers, consultants, and IT leadership to optimize the scope, benefits, and risks of proposed projects as well as managing stakeholder expectations. Examples Of Typical Tasks Analyze and document business requirements and processes; communicate requirements to technical personnel through construction of conceptual data, process models, flowcharts, and technical specifications. Interview end users, stakeholders, and project sponsors to assess business and clinical needs; create business, functional, and technical requirements documents based on captured data, in accordance with departmental protocol and standards. Convert information gathered into specific details including data sources, data and user types, interface components, interface navigation needs, reporting needs, and administrative system needs. Define external interfaces, constraints, quality issues, and other non‑functional requirements. Provide the project management team with identified risks, concerns, and ambiguities discovered during the requirements gathering; assist the team in developing solutions. Partner with project managers to complete requirements documentation in accordance with the project schedule. Plan, organize, facilitate, and lead meetings and workgroups, and oversee and execute follow‑up activities. Ensure the software development team accounts for all defined technical requirements, in coordination with the quality assurance team, and that all quality standards comply with internal policies and industry standards. Document changes to baseline requirements through a standard change control process; document software test plans, technical requirements, release notes, user and training guidelines, and other materials. Plan, coordinate, and support unit acceptance testing and subsequent deployments, in coordination with other team leaders. Perform end‑user and application support functions, including problem solving and resolution of application function defects; provide systems and application training. Develop and execute project presentations. Participate in special projects, as required. Provide training to and serve as a mentor for junior clinical business analysts and/or other appropriate project team members; manage and evaluate work product for assigned team members. Participate in the development of various departmental training initiatives. Interview junior clinical business analysts and/or other appropriate project team members. Minimum Qualifications A master’s degree or advanced clinical degree from an accredited college or university; or A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and one (1) year of experience gathering and documenting business, clinical and/or functional requirements for software applications development and implementation in a clinical, allied health, non‑allied health, behavioral health, information technology, information services, business, analytics or related area; or one (1) year of experience in a relevant clinical and/or healthcare administration role/function; or A satisfactory combination of education, training and experience. Specialty certification(s) issued by a national commercially available program, state, professional society, academic or technical institution in an area(s) listed above may be credited on a month‑to‑month basis toward the required work experience for a total of one (1) year. #J-18808-Ljbffr NYC Health + Hospitals