Location: Chicago, Illinois /
Hybrid (50% onsite)
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 1Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 4:00:00 PM)
Pay Range: $31.47 - $46.89 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:Help power the technology behind exceptional patient care. RUSH is seeking a Clinical Application Analyst to support, optimize, and enhance the critical clinical applications that clinicians rely on every day to deliver safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care.
A key focus of this role includes integrating and maintaining clinical device data across a wide range of systems, such as Philips Telemetry, Natus EEG, GE CPN Fetal Monitoring, Capsule, Rauland Nurse Call, Vocera, and middleware platforms like Connexall-ensuring seamless communication between devices and core clinical systems. You'll collaborate with clinical, operational, and IT teams to design, configure, implement, maintain, and improve healthcare technology solutions that support essential patient-care workflows. From system upgrades and application enhancements to troubleshooting and ongoing optimization, you'll play a key role in ensuring the reliability and effectiveness of technologies used across the organization.
If you're looking for an opportunity to make a meaningful impact in a leading academic health system while working with innovative clinical technologies and multidisciplinary teams, we invite you to join RUSH and help shape the future of healthcare operations and patient care. The selected candidate will exemplify 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).
