Rush University Medical Center

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: Inpatient Clinical IT Services

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0.9 and 1.0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Pay Range: $31.47 - $52.87 per hour

Rush salaries are determined by many factors including, but not limited to, education, job-related experience and skills, as well as internal equity and industry specific market data. The pay range for each role reflects Rush’s anticipated wage or salary reasonably expected to be offered for the position. Offers may vary depending on the circumstances of each case.

Summary:

Are you passionate about bridging the gap between clinical care and technology? Join our dynamic team at Rush as a Clinical Application Analyst, where you’ll play a vital role in transforming patient care through innovative IT solutions. In this position, you’ll collaborate with clinicians, informatics specialists, and fellow IT professionals to design, build, and optimize clinical applications that enhance workflows and improve outcomes.

We're looking for someone who brings hands-on experience supporting healthcare systems, understands the clinical environment, and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative setting. You’ll have the opportunity to lead configuration, testing, and implementation efforts while continuously improving system functionality to support Rush’s mission of delivering outstanding patient care. The qualified candidate exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Develops, maintains, and optimizes all assigned clinical software solutions.
• Builds, tests, and implements computer applications and other systems that support clinical initiatives.
• Serves as a liaison between project team members and other IS resources while providing exemplary customer service and application support and development for all assigned clinical healthcare IT systems.
• Performs modification of applications as needed to meet business and clinical requirements.
• Interacts with clinical informatics to understand new business requirements and enhancement requests.
• Documents issues with resolutions and share with team members to improve team productivity.
• Take initiative and drives to bring to logical conclusion; proactive approach, including continual improvement of knowledge of supported systems.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and three (3) years of clinical experience or designing, building and supporting clinical applications.
• An Associate degree and five (5) years of clinical experience or designing, building and supporting clinical applications will be accepted in lieu of a Bachelor’s.
• Experience defining clinical and operating requirements, and translate requirements into clear, specific, actionable system configurations, and the ability to implement those configurations.
• Ability to test and audit personally developed system configurations, in order to assure functional accuracy.
• Knowledge of systems implementation which may include analysis, specification design, and implementation.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
• Relationship, teamwork, and project management skills.
• Strong conceptual, process, and data analysis skills, an in-depth understanding of medical practice informatics, clinical, and operating data sets.
• PC proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word).

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.