Clinical Business Analyst Level ll

About NYC Health + Hospitals

NYC Health + Hospitals is the largest public health care system in the United States. We provide essential outpatient, inpatient and home-based services to more than one million New Yorkers every year across the city’s five boroughs. Our large health system consists of ambulatory centers, acute care centers, post-acute care/long-term care, rehabilitation programs, Home Care, and Correctional Health Services. Our diverse workforce is uniquely focused on empowering New Yorkers.

At NYC Health + Hospitals, our mission is to deliver high quality care health services, without exception. Every employee takes a person-centered approach that exemplifies the ICARE values (Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence) through empathic communication and partnerships between all persons.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose of Position:

Under varying levels of direction and expertise, is responsible for the on-going assessment, design, development and implementation of system-wide clinical systems. Specifically, collect and transform large quantities of information into meaningful business requirements; develop and modify requirements documentation for the design and implementation of clinical information systems; critically evaluate information from various sources; distinguish user needs from actual business needs and partner with business users, project managers, programmers, consultants and IT leadership in optimizing the scope, benefits and risks of actual and proposed projects as well as assist in managing stakeholder expectations.

Level I

Examples of Typical Tasks:

• Analyze and document business requirements and processes; communicate requirements to technical personnel through the construction of basic conceptual data, process models and flowcharts, and technical specifications.
• Interview end users, stakeholders, and project sponsors in order to assess business and clinical needs; create business, functional, and technical requirements document based on captured data and, in accordance with departmental protocol/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 project management team with identified risks, concerns, and ambiguities discovered during the gathering of requirements; assist team in developing solutions.
• Partner with project managers to complete requirements documentation, in accordance with project schedule.
• Plan, organize, facilitate, and lead meetings and workgroups as well as oversee and execute follow-up activities.
• Ensure software development team accounts for all defined technical requirements, in coordination with quality assurance team. Ensure that all quality standards comply with internal policies and industry standards.
• Document changes to baseline requirements through 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 products 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.

Level II

In addition to performing the typical tasks of Assignment Level I at a higher level, also performs the following tasks:

• Identify opportunities for process improvements and provide analysis and propose change and communicate strategies.
• Provide supervision and guidance to junior clinical business analysts, clinical business analysts assigned at Level I, consultants, and/or other appropriate project team members.
• Interview junior clinical business analysts, clinical business analysts assigned at Level I, consultants, and/or other appropriate project team members.

Level III

In addition to performing the typical tasks of the lower Assignment Levels at a higher level, also performs the following:

• Lead the training, development, and implementation of process improvements for all projects and applications.
• Provide supervision and direction to junior clinical business analysts, clinical business analysts assigned at Levels I and II, consultants, and/or other appropriate project team members.
• Interview junior clinical business analysts, clinical business analysts assigned at Levels I and II, consultants, and/or other appropriate project team members.

Minimum Qualifications

• A Masters degree or advanced clinical degree from an accredited college or university and one (1) year of experience gathering and documenting business, clinical, and/or functional requirements using interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis or related 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 Baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university and three (3) years of experience as described above; 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.

Department Preferences

• Project management
• Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
• Microsoft Office (Excel, Outlook, Word, PPT)
• Proficiency in SQL, R, or Python for data extraction, cleaning, and analysis.
• Experience with the Epic electronic medical record is strongly preferred, but not required
• Demonstrated proficiency in Tableau strongly preferred – mentoring to deepen these skills will be available
• Epic EMR experience
• Experience in data management and analysis, particularly within a healthcare setting
• Proficiency in SQL, R, or Python for data extraction, cleaning, and analysis
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present complex data insights to diverse audiences. Must be able to effectively communicate results to programmatic partners
• Keen understanding of methods and data, as well as an ability to break down sophisticated concepts into consumable information for multiple audiences
• A love of learning and a willingness to collaborate with diverse stakeholders to arrive at creative solutions
• Demonstrates initiative, sound judgment, flexibility, and creative problem-solving skills
• Effective time management and organizational skills
• Ability to work independently within a team in a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment
• Excellent communications skills, including written and oral presentation skills, with the ability to engage, build credibility and engender trust across all levels of collaboration
• 5+ years of experience

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