Application Coordinator; Inpatient Clinical Documentation

About Us:

As a not-for-profit organization, Mass General Brigham is committed to supporting patient care, research, teaching, and service to the community by leading innovation across our system. Founded by Brigham and Women's Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital, Mass General Brigham supports a complete continuum of care including community and specialty hospitals, a managed care organization, a physician network, community health centers, home care and other health-related entities. Several of our hospitals are teaching affiliates of Harvard Medical School, and our system is a national leader in biomedical research.

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Our employees use the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration.

General Summary/ Overview:

At Mass General Brigham Digital, we pride ourselves on our ability to create maximum strategic, clinical, and operational value from established and emergent technologies for our patients, care teams, researchers, and employees. Digital health will not only enhance the equity and efficiency of healthcare delivery, but it will also help make medicine more personalized and precise.

We recognize that increasing value and continually improving quality while maintaining an inclusive focus are essential to organizational excellence, and we invite you to join us on this journey. The work we do in Digital is a strategic imperative, and there is a strong and growing understanding of how together we will transform Mass General Brigham in innovative and impactful ways.

Position Summary:

The person filling this position will be an Application Coordinator on the Inpatient Clinical Documentation team. This application builds and supports the documentation tools for multiple clinicians across various areas, including nursing (RN, PCA), physicians (documentation), and health professionals (e.g. PT, OT, SLP, RD, chaplains). Build will include various Epic tools used within the scope of documentation including flowsheets, notes, worklist tasks, medication administration record and reports as well as others. Clin Doc covers clinicians at the acute and community hospitals, as well as inpatient rehabilitation, long term care and home hospital. Application coordinators will be responsible for the support of our build within the system and will cover call for all sites with issues encountered. Application coordinators will also build and support some reports within the Epic system.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as part of a team of software application and workflow experts to provide design & build expertise to analyze organization's current business practices and translate them into configurations and workflows, for successful product implementation

• Ability to help guide decisions using application knowledge and analysis in a timely fashion

• Participates in peer review for quality assurance of team member build, and assists with onboarding & mentoring of new team members

• Works closely with end users to document business requirements, and translates those requirements into functional specifications and/or system build/configuration for the software application

• Develops and executes test plans and performs other software quality assurance tasks

• Provides ongoing support of the software applications by identifying and resolving issues, and escalating as needed for timely resolution

• Provides high quality, customer-focused services

• Runs reports, updates tables and performs other tasks associated with the ongoing operation of the software environment

• Participates in regular team meetings to discuss team activities, issues and updates

• Acts as team delegate/representative at department, project or other meetings, as assigned

• Participates as needed with review of the training curriculum and end user documentation for the applications user community

• Uses the Mass General Brigham values to govern decisions, actions and behaviors. These values guide how we get our work done: Patients, Affordability, Accountability & Service Commitment, Decisiveness, Innovation & Thoughtful Risk; and how we treat each other: Diversity & Inclusion, Integrity & Respect, Learning, Continuous Improvement & Personal Growth, Teamwork & Collaboration

• Other duties as assigned

• Bachelor's Degree required

• 5 years of healthcare information technology experience

• A combination of education and experience may be substituted for requirements

• Must obtain Certification as outlined by program requirements

Skills/Abilities/Competencies:

• Experience in the development, support or operation of software applications in a healthcare setting

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills to effectively communicate with both technical and non-technical staff

• Demonstrated analytic and problem-solving skills

• Ability to learn quickly

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 and other popular office productivity solutions

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• No direct reports; may indirectly provide leadership and guidance to less seasoned and new staff

• Fiscal Responsibility: Indicate financial "scope" information, i.e.: size of budget, volume, revenue, etc.

• No direct budgetary responsibility

• Demonstrates fiscal responsibility by effectively using Mass General Brigham Resources