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Health Information Technology & Services (HITS) plays a role in the success of Michigan Medicine by providing clinicians, educators, researchers, students, and staff with technology-related information, products, and support. HITS also provides institutional expertise related to IT strategy, security, infrastructure, and resource management. This position will be part of a team that configures application security and access for clinical users in our electronic health record application. 

Division Overview

The HITS Clinical & Revenue Cycle IT (CRC) division is responsible for more than 450 clinical and revenue cycle applications that clinicians, staff, and patients rely upon every day. The CRC team has subdivisions that support inpatient, ambulatory, departmental, and revenue cycle areas across Michigan Medicine (MM). CRC also oversees many of the major IT platforms and applications such as the electronic health record, virtual care, pharmacy, radiology, radiation oncology, registration, document management, billing, and much more. The CRC team is highly relied upon across the healthcare system and collaborates with operational partners to provide excellent service to the MM staff. Staff within CRC often interact with customers on a regular basis by implementing and configuring workflows, enhancements, optimizations, and new modules or software while also ensuring adequate change control and testing processes occur. Team members work on a vast array of projects that propel MM into the future.

As an application systems analyst on the Clinical Security Team, you would help configure, update, and support security and access for clinical users in our MiChart Epic vendor application. This includes gathering and documenting requirements, assessing feasibility, determining implementation options, working with the vendor to build and test features, releasing them to users, and providing ongoing support. This position works with other analysts and with people from operational and clinical areas to support users and applications.

Scope and Requirements Definition

• Interact with customers to determine priorities and needs.
• Analyze and document user and business requirements. 
• Identify commonality and re-use, using a long-term view of technical and application evolution in our environment.

Analysis, Specification, and Configuration

• Develop solutions to user and business requirements using an in-depth understanding of key business processes and knowledge of system functionality.
• Configure application to meet those solution requirements.
• Test to ensure complete and accurate results.
• Create and maintain proper documentation.

Project Management

• Assist with project planning and coordination.
• Analyze and recommend courses of action to management.
• Identify, track, and resolve issues and risks. Develop contingency plans and mitigation strategies.
• Interact and coordinate with other groups within the organization.

Information Management and Support

• Plan and execute system upgrades to introduce new features with minimal impact to users.
• Research and provide information on the system upon request.
• Perform systems duties required to meet HITS and UMHS requirements (e.g. HIPAA, Compliance, information security, etc.).
• Investigate customer issues and questions and provide technical support to users. 
• Assist in preparation and review of training materials.

Leadership

• Provide guidance and training to other team members.

Senior Level

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of IT related experience.

Intermediate Level 

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 2-3 Years of IT related experience.

Requirements for Senior/Intermediate Level

• Experience implementing, testing, and supporting IT solutions for non-IT users.
• Experience creating support documentation for use by other team members.
• Experience investigating and solving user and system problems with IT applications.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications like Word and Excel.

• Methodical approach to planning and executing your work.
• Ability to work well with members of your team and other teams, including users.
• Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and skills.
• Experience with role-base security and access.
• Experience with troubleshooting and resolving users' application issues.
• Experience with creating and maintaining project plans, including tasks, milestones, dependencies, effort, and dates.
• Experience with a complex technical environment in a large healthcare organization.
• Experience with Microsoft Office applications like Work, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Experience with creating and updating reports using tools like SQL or Tableau.
• Experience with an issue tracking and change management system like Service Now.
• Experience using Epic applications, especially security configuration.

This position is being offered as a Hybrid position. There will be times that it will be appropriate for you to work from home. There will be other times that you will be required to work onsite for meetings and in-person investigation. This position will be 95% remote work. May require working during non-business hours and on weekends.

On-Call rotation is required for this position.

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment. Learn more about the work modes.

This position may be underfilled at a lower classification depending on the qualifications of the selected candidate.

Benefits

We offer a benefits package that includes comprehensive training and career development opportunities, generous retirement savings plans, ample paid time off, and a wealth of family care support: https://careers.umich.edu/benefits

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings.  Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days.  The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled anytime after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an equal employment opportunity employer.