Epic Health Information Exchange Analyst

About the role

The Epic Health Information Exchange (HIE) Analyst will serve as the primary contact in the development and functionality of the Epic system/applications enabling the secure exchange of patient information among the Virginia Hospital Center (VHC) community.

Responsibilities

• Develop and configure Epic application solutions by investigating processes to understand data and communication flows with individual tasks and transactions.
• Fulfills multiple roles throughout the development, implementation, management, and on-going support of Virginia Hospital Center’s comprehensive information exchange strategies.
• Collaborates with the multi-disciplined team members and leaders on the Epic project translating business needs into secure information exchange functionality.
• Provides consultation and coordinates design/build/testing/go-live activities for these information exchange applications.
• Provides application and technical support for these information exchange applications in addition to providing triage and troubleshooting to end users.
• Monitors the systems for data quality, efficiency, operation, and data integrity and escalates issues/problems.
• Plans and prepares the Epic applications test scripts for application testing, integration testing and user acceptance testing.
• Provides standardization direction for the product aligning the application version and workflow with current standards.
• Gathers and analyzes user needs for developing and modifying applications in the healthcare environment.
• Analyzes complex results, proposes solutions and/or recommendations in addition to building, configuring and/or modifying the Epic information exchange applications using existing application tools.
• Provides complex application support, writes documentation and specifications.
• Evaluates and understands dependencies between applications to understand if making a change in one application would have a negative impact in another application.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a health, science, or business field, or an equivalent level of professional experience desired.
• 1+ years industry related experience in an IS setting (Healthcare/Health Services, Information Services) or within applicable area in healthcare operations, with experience in information applications, including performing programming or applications analysis, or equivalent desired.
• 1+ year EHR experience either as analyst or end user desired.

Qualifications

• Epic certification application specific to be obtained within six months.

Skills

• Thorough understanding of appropriate and secure patient information exchange strategies, patient/provider portals.

Benefits

At VHC Health, every role contributes to exceptional care, better outcomes, and stronger communities. In addition to your base compensation, VHC Health offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision coverage (subject to eligibility requirements), as well as additional wellness and retirement benefits designed to support our employees and their families. VHC Health is committed to wage transparency and equitable pay practices.

Pay

The compensation offered for this position—whether expressed as an annual salary or hourly rate—is determined based on a variety of legitimate, non-discriminatory factors. These factors include, but are not limited to, a candidate’s qualifications, relevant training and experience, skill level, shift differentials (where applicable), internal equity, and current market conditions.

Schedule

VHC Health maintains a drug-free workplace. The unlawful manufacture, distribution, dispensing, possession, or use of a controlled substance is prohibited at all VHC Health locations.