Healthcare Sr. Analyst - Business Systems -Pharmacy
Plano, TX

Job Description

Sr. Analyst - Business Systems -Pharmacy

Job Summary:

* Builds and conducts testing plan to ensure clinically valid pharmacy data is available to the business
* Performs mapping of clinical data to a normalized data model.
* Determines approaches to interoperability of clinical data, including mapping of clinical content to data standards to support use case requirements
* Serves as a subject matter expert on pharmacy data quality and availability
* Builds data concepts to supports clinical use cases
* Serves as a key resource for an assigned customer area to understand and explain business and technical issues and to provide viable technology solutions.

Responsibilities:

* Act as a quality consultant and subject matter expert, performing testing and validation of the mapped of data elements to standards
* Tests clinical content to ensure the appropriate data modeling, vocabulary, terminology and code-set standard for representing and harmonizing clinical data
* Collaborates with technical resources to perform root cause analysis and complete remediation of data quality issues
* Works with customers to clarify and plan for their current and future technology needs. Determines and maps existing business processes/functions and recommends changes required to fit a tightly integrated system.
* Designs and implements projects requiring systems integration, small teams and multiple technical platforms.
* Conducts Return on Investment (ROI) and other financial analysis to support project funding/prioritization.
* Collaborates on driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals.
* Provides subject-matter expertise of Health Ministry processes, policies and requirements in support of functional area process design, testing and implementation
* Identifies opportunities for process improvement and makes recommendations that lead to improvements
* Monitors task assignments to ensure they are performed on schedule, within intended scope and to a defined level of quality.
* Coordinates with functional team to assure consistency and optimization of overall work product
* Escalates process and project issues that cannot be resolved

Experience:

* Experience with healthcare/clinical terminologies and code-sets that comprise measure value sets including RxNorm, CVX, MULTUM, First Data Bank, Medispan, NDC, and other code systems.
* Must have a working knowledge of relational databases/database structures, SQL experience desired
* Must have a strong understanding of data collected and used in electronic medical records, and experience navigating EMRs.
* Knowledge and experience with pharmacy workflows and Rx information systems.
* Experience with detailed policies and related data/exchange standards including the ONC Interoperability Advisory Standard, U.S. Core Data for Interoperability initiative, ONC Certification Rules
* Experience with using/implementing HL7 standards and processes including Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR)
* Graduate of an accredited School of Pharmacy with B.S. or a Pharm.D. Degree
* 5 years of experience required.