Cerner Integrated Technology Specialist

Job Description

Job Summary

Community Health Systems is hiring a Cerner Integrated Technology Specialist  to join our EHR Team. This role will help implement, manage, and modernize the Cerner Integrated Technology. As an Integrated Technology Analyst, you will be responsible for providing implementation service for medical device connectivity products. These products include CareAware Bedside Medical Device Integration (BMDI), CareAware Lab Medical Device Integration (MDI), CareAware Infusion Suite, and CareAware VitalsLink. Services include the integrated technology deployments of hardware, software and clinical workflow. You will be focused on collaboratively guiding stakeholders and project teams with net new, add-on, and optimization deployments of integrated devices in various clinical settings. This includes integration of lab analyzers, anesthesia systems, patient monitoring, respiratory ventilators, infusion pumps, and medication dispensing cabinets. You will support through regular project events, testing calls, status meetings, and conversion support. You will contribute to implementation best practices, troubleshoot device integration issues, assess risk and mitigate findings throughout client engagements in partnership with engagement management. Additionally, you will facilitate technical discovery and provide expertise based on the specific environment, while also establishing relationships with the goal of achieving high level satisfaction. This role requires managing multiple work assignments.  

Essential Functions

• As an Integrated Technology Specialist you will be responsible for providing implementation service for medical device connectivity products including CareAware Bedside Medical Device Integration (BMDI), CareAware Lab Medical Device Integration (MDI), CareAware Infusion Suite, and CareAware VitalsLink.
• Resolves complex problems that may involve various groups across functional lines and exercises independent judgment in developing processes, techniques, and success factors.
• Responsibilities include the integrated technology deployments of hardware, software and clinical workflow. You will be focused on collaboratively guiding stakeholders and project teams with net new, add-on, and optimization deployments of integrated devices in various clinical settings. This includes integration of lab analyzers, anesthesia systems, patient monitoring, respiratory ventilators, infusion pumps, and medication dispensing cabinets
• Consult with internal project stakeholders, Business Partners, and organizational teams to bi-directionally share configuration status, project timelines and project updates, and verify configuration requests.
• Stay up to date on industry and Cerner best practices for continuous modernization of the EHR. 
• You will support through regular project events, testing calls, status meetings, and conversion support. You will contribute to implementation best practices, troubleshoot device integration issues, assess risk and mitigate findings throughout client engagements in partnership with engagement management.
• Additionally, you will facilitate technical discovery and provide expertise based on the specific environment, while also establishing relationships with the goal of achieving high level satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• At least 8 years total combined related work experience and completed higher education, including:
• At least 6 years healthcare information technology (HCIT) consulting, HCIT support and/or other client-facing or information technology (IT) solution work experience
• At least 5 years additional work experience directly related to the duties of the job and/or completed higher education.
• Preferred Experience:
• 8 year’s experience working with Cerner Millennium
• 8 year’s experience working with CareAware iBus
• 6 year’s of technical troubleshooting and problem-solving experience
• 6 year’s experience with medical devices such as anesthesia carts, physiological monitors, ventilators, infusion pumps, and/or laboratory analyzers
• 3 years of application of basic networking principles