Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.

We are always looking for people inspired to help us in our mission. If you are someone who wants to change the lives of patients, drive success for our partners and be part of a team driven to improve care, we may have your next opportunity

POSITION SUMMARY:
Lifepoint Health has an opportunity for a Senior Clinical Systems Analyst - Cerner. The Senior Analyst, Clinical Applications is responsible for meeting the needs of internal and external LifePoint customers and supporting the clinical departments by planning and implementing information systems for clinical areas. The Clinical Systems Analyst acts as a liaison between clinical departments and IS for software issues. This position provides the knowledge and skills to meet clinical staff and/or hospital/clinics needs and performs in accordance with LifePoint Health standards and policies. The Clinical Applications Analyst is a highly trained individual who must solve problems under critical time constraints, operates under minimal supervision, and identifies opportunities for business process improvements using information technologies.
Provides leadership to the functional development, implementation, and related meaningful use of Oracle/Cerner Electronic Health Records (EHR) in support of the organizational strategic direction within LifePoint Healthcare venues. Provides clinical, informatics, and leadership to the team while assuring inclusion of others within the Cerner Clinical team as appropriate to meet objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Analyze and present various clinical application requirements, utilization, and trend across Lifepoint markets to drive adoption and reduce costs.
• Participating in coordinating any application changes, including maintenance/patches, software changes.
• Works with customers on break/fix issues, needs for the clinical EHR.
• Maintains a role to plan, deploy, and remediate technology initiatives and patient outcomes with clinicians and the appropriate Health Support Center (HSC) and facility stakeholders.
• Serves as the subject matter expert (SME) associated with clinical processes, improvements and solutions deployments within the clinical departments in order to to imbed operational technology into clinician workflow, improving productivity, clinical decision making, training, and patient outcomes. Primarily responsible for the Cerner solutions clinical components in the area of Nursing, Women's Health, Ancillary Solutions, Rehab, and Ambulatory. Support the repeatable model(s) of deployment for all the different types, ex Joint Venture (JV), Post-Acute, Acute, etc.
• Maintain strong role and work collaboratively in guiding the development and deployment of materials and process design associated with area of responsibility, including training programs, sample ideal process flows, templates, governance models, etc.
• Direct build of clinical tools for existing and new sites.
• Support the quality initiatives throughout the organization and recommend system solutions or aids to enhance the technology solutions for improved patient outcomes.
• Work directly with Cerner Oracle team in the design, prioritization, and adoption of on-going improvements to clinical solutions. Collaborate to create cross functional relationships with your peers and within facilities to provide guidance in the adoption of clinical documentation systems and other clinical technologies, use of data, with the goal to achieve positive patient outcomes with LifePoint Health.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Regular and reliable attendance.

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's Degree or any equivalent combination of education, experience, and training that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities. Nursing or other healthcare background preferred.

EXPERIENCE:

• 5 years in clinical setting
• At least -3 years' experience with informatics and systems implementations
• Cerner Clinical Build Experience required

Moderate overnight travel (up to 30%) by land and/or air.