Clinical Applications Specialist

Baylor College of Medicine

Houston, TX

ID: 7212533 (Ref.No. 18377-en_US)
Posted: February 1, 2024

Job Description

Summary

The Clinical Applications Specialist provides daily technical-operational support for the clinical Applications used by the Baylor College of Medicine clinical departments. Successful candidates should be knowledgeable with Epic workflows and are able to provide support to internal customers by training, working to resolve or assisting with issues.  

 

This position is fully remote within the state of Texas.

Job Duties

 

Generic Duties:  

  • Works closely with clinical IT staff to understand the short and long-term strategies and requirements, works with others to identify and implement technology solutions to support the plans.
  • Assists in performing the analysis, development, and testing of clinical applications and procedures. Makes recommendations as necessary.
  • Communicates with end users, assisting employees with technical troubleshooting, documenting issues, troubleshooting various applications, following standard support procedures, and determining and documenting resolutions for clinical applications.
  • Provides proactive response to or escalate the resolution of the electronic medical record applications issues.
  • Completes documentation of all communications and issues in our Service Now system.
  • Handles incoming communication to the Clinical Support Team including calls, voicemail, e-mail, and InBasket by accurately analyzing, resolving, and documenting problems and requests in accordance with current standards.
  • Proactively analyzes, investigates, resolves and documents data issues in clinical applications and interfaces to ensure accuracy, consistency and data integrity.
  • Monitors and troubleshoots error logs and data errors related to data dictionaries and interfaces. 
  • Participates in supporting application upgrades, modifications, including on-site dress rehearsal for go-lives.
  • Creates and continually updates Knowledge Based articles to document clinical workflows in Epic to describe build and assist with troubleshooting issues. 

 

Specific Position Duties:

  • Assists with Epic build related to projects, catalog requests or staff requests.
  • Performs Data Courier of Epic build to Production environment for clinical teams.
  • Creates and continually updates Knowledge Based articles to document clinical workflows in Epic to describe build and assist with troubleshooting issues.

Minimum Qualifications

  • High School diploma or GED.
  • Four years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree. No experience required with Bachelor’s degree.
  • Experience using Epic software.

 

 

Baylor College of Medicine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Equal Access Employer.

 

 

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Baylor College of Medicine fosters diversity among its students, trainees, faculty and staff as a prerequisite to accomplishing our institutional mission, and setting standards for excellence in training healthcare providers and biomedical scientists, promoting scientific innovation, and providing patient-centered care. - Diversity, respect, and inclusiveness create an environment that is conducive to academic excellence, and strengthens our institution by increasing talent, encouraging creativity, and ensuring a broader perspective. - Diversity helps position Baylor to reduce disparities in health and healthcare access and to better address the needs of the community we serve. - Baylor is committed to recruiting and retaining outstanding students, trainees, faculty and staff from diverse backgrounds by providing a welcoming, supportive learning environment for all members of the Baylor community.