CIS Application Specialist

CIS Application specialist 

Roles & Responsibilities

• Implement new designs/upgrades to existing systems.
• Assist in development and maintenance of procedures, standards, and controls to ensure the integrity, reliability, and security of the hospitals information assets.
• Familiar with pertinent process and procedures and related programming practices, software, and hardware to provide required analysis of users problems.
• Test and debug computer programs maintained internally, or software patches & Fixes sent by software Vendors before placing it to production environment.
• Interact with end-users to transform their business requirements into functional specifications and to pass it to Technical Staff or Software vendors.
• Participate in the development of training materials and assist in conducting training and workshop to endusers for the use of computer applications.
• Participate in analyzing current and proposed departmental / user software systems.
• Work with clinical end users to document business processes and guide them through complex application functionality.
• Interact with hardware and software vendors/contractors to solve installation, configuration and operational problems. Identify problem trends and provide information that can be used to eliminate recurring problems.
• Implement application security and create user access& user menus as required.
• Assist in developing training plans and delivery of training programs
• Demonstrate proactive approach to patient safety by thinking what might go wrong in all your undertakings and take necessary measures to prevent them from happening.
• Identify and report potential or actual patient safety concerns, errors and/or near misses in timely manner.
• Follow patient safety-related policies, procedures and protocols.
• Demonstrate as sense of teamwork and effective communication
• Partner with line manager to understand risks in your area of work, develop a plan on how to mitigate those risks, and develop shared accountability for implementing and evaluating the plan.
• Ensure high standards of confidentiality to safeguard any sensitive information

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Business or Health Care
• Minimum 5 years of experience in applications of enterprise-wide IT projects (some of which must have involved implementing Cerner Millennium and/or CareStream)

Skills Required

• Strong Interpersonal skills
• Personal drive, commitment and being a self-starter.
• Prioritizing workload and meeting tight deadlines with high quality output.
• Organized and Multi-tasking skills
• Ability to work effectively with a variety of groups
• Customer Oriented