LCMC Health · 11 hours ago
IT Epic Application Lead - Epic Grand Central / Prelude -- Epic Grand Central Certification Required
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
5+ years expLCMC Health is a community-focused healthcare organization dedicated to providing the best possible care. They are seeking an IT Epic Application Lead to provide leadership in the development and rollout of Epic applications, ensuring integration with EMR and third-party systems while managing project timelines and team accountability.
Health CareHealth DiagnosticsHospitalMedical
Responsibilities
Represents Information Technology in a respectful and professional manner
Provides leadership in the development of the use of a specific application and the subsequent roll out of the functionality
Completes assigned tasks per defined project scope, timelines, and budgets. Monitors division tasks to ensure they are completed on time
Understands interconnectivity and integration with EMR and third-party applications
Works with internal IT teams on technical troubleshooting, integration, reporting, and training. Participates in division meetings
Demonstrates creativity and passion to continuously learn. Mentors team
Follows department standards and procedures
Communicates effectively with technical team at all levels and with users at a non-technical and clinical level
Alerts senior staff members of any outages, problems, or delays
Maintains knowledge of health care, technology, and industry trends
Maintains appropriate certifications
Interprets data regarding current environment and document workflows and system access
Applies analytical skills and related application knowledge to define the information requirements necessary to design, build, and install upgrades and/or new implementations
Analyzes and makes sound recommendations for workflow based on system capabilities
Develops and/or evaluates previously refined data and programs and selects from a range of alternatives to determine the appropriate action to be taken. Understands functionality and relationships between supported applications
Leads optimization efforts of clinical staff and departments
Coordinates upgrade activities with team
Develops or helps in the development of work plans, task sequencing
Develops time schedules, conversion and test procedures for all aspects of system
Executes necessary investigation, analysis, and evaluation to determine project feasibility and develops project scope
Utilizes change management process
Ensures each team completes tasks on time and is accountable to manager for team completing assigned work on time
Completes required documentation
Serves as member of various employee committees to discuss workflow, system needs and changes
Coordinates activities with other departments and work groups as needed
Serves as a backup to related positions as needed
Participates in on call rotation for application support
Provides Help Desk support as needed
Performs related duties as assigned
Creates test plans to support thorough application and integrated testing scenarios
Supervises testing and validates change logs
Reviews newly released software to ensure integrity
Resolves post installation technical problems in a timely manner, assists team in resolving complex issues, escalating issues as necessary to the appropriate organizational or vendor level
Expert on routine duties often asked to mentor team. Uses appreciable originality on system assignments, makes recommendations and seeks approval on complex matters
Researches, identifies, designs, and implements solutions to special client requests or requirements and thoroughly documents all identified solutions and standard operating procedures
Plans independently the full range of programming actions needed to achieve desired end-results on complex problems; analyzes and suggests system development tasks
Performs system design/build/update. Monitors release notes for pertinent build and testing for the system
Keeps documents and change logs updated
Maintains quality control between environments with build activities
Responsible for optimal functioning, design, and content of training environment
Develops or helps in the development of work plans, task sequencing
Proposes deadlines for and task delegation for all training environment rebuild situations such as upgrades and optimizations to Director. Leads training environment rebuild activities as approved
Executes necessary investigation, analysis, and evaluation to determine project feasibility and works with Training Director to develop project scope
Collaborates with trainers on planning/design of specialty patients in training environment for unique/complex workflows. Creates test plans to support thorough testing scenarios before releasing for use in training
Assists team in resolving training environment technical problems in a timely manner, escalating issues as necessary to the appropriate team (internal or vendor)
Keeps training environment build, change, and maintenance records updated
Ensures each team member completes tasks on time and is accountable to manager for team completing assigned work on time
Ensures quality control across environments during build activities, including the transfer of data between training and testing environments
Demonstrates the technical skills to create and maintain necessary files to support training, such as file settings, schedules, user setup, automated environment updates, and data duplication processes
Handles environment maintenance tasks, including data duplication, environment updates, and data transfers
Creates a variety of training and education tools for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other applications across the LCMC system and executes the training program
Maintains and updates all training materials as needed
Works one on one with providers, clinicians, and other customers as requested to improve efficiency of using the EMR. Provides specialized training to end users when necessary, including outside of the normal training schedule or formal classroom setting
Supports optimization efforts of staff and departments. Supports user departments during designated go lives and for a period after go live
Credentials new Learning & Development Specialists; performs annual re-credentialing
Plans independently the full range of training actions needed to achieve desired end-results on complex workflows
Monitors release notes for pertinent training actions needed
Collaborate with Informaticists, Nursing and other hospital-based educators on annual competencies and skills fairs as it relates to the EHR
Collaborate with Informaticists and Quality departments on PI/Lean projects at both system and hospital level
Qualification
Required
5 years of IT, Epic, or healthcare experience with a Bachelor's Degree
7 years of IT, Epic, or healthcare experience with Associate's Degree
9 years of IT, Epic, or healthcare experience with High School Diploma/GED
High School Diploma / Bachelor's Degree. (LCMC)
Epic Certification required for Epic positions
Preferred
IT Healthcare experience
Epic implementation experience
Company
LCMC Health
LCMC Health is a provider of hospitals, medical centers & health centers for healthcare, medical diagnostics and treatment.
10001+ employees
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