Senior EHR Business Analyst
Summary
A 7-month, on-site contract in Oklahoma City: elicit, document, and validate business, clinical, operational, and reporting requirements for a government/public-health agency's EHR initiatives; map workflows and support testing/UAT alongside the project manager. In-person interview required.
Role: EHR Business Analyst
Location: Oklahoma City, OK
Duration: 7 months
In-Person
Interview Required
Required Skills: Business Analysis Process
Improvement
Description:
The Business Analyst will support agency efforts to assess,
document, and define business, clinical, operational, technical, reporting, and
data requirements associated with electronic health records (EHR) capabilities
across the organization. The Business Analyst will work closely with the
assigned Project Manager and collaborate with program, clinical, operational,
information technology, data, compliance, and other stakeholders to develop a
comprehensive and validated understanding of organizational needs.
The Business Analyst will be responsible for the
following activities:
• Elicit, analyze, document, prioritize, and
maintain business, clinical, operational, data, and reporting requirements for
EHR initiatives, enhancements, and related capabilities.
• Translate stakeholder needs, workflows,
challenges, and desired outcomes into clear, testable, and solution-neutral
requirements.
• Distinguish underlying business and clinical
needs from current-system limitations, existing practices, individual
preferences, or assumptions about a specific technology solution.
• Analyze needs across programs and stakeholder
groups to identify shared requirements, legitimate program-specific variations,
conflicting needs, dependencies, and opportunities for standardization.
• Facilitate discussions to reconcile differences
and document decisions or necessary exceptions.
• Facilitate structured stakeholder review of
requirements to confirm accuracy, completeness, clarity, priority, and
alignment with intended workflows.
• For EHR enhancements and implementations,
support validation of configured functionality against approved requirements
through workflow review, test scenario development, user acceptance testing,
defect/issue documentation, and confirmation of readiness with appropriate
stakeholders.
• Document and analyze current- and future-state
workflows to identify gaps, impacts, dependencies, and opportunities for
process improvement associated with EHR capabilities. Support development of
process maps, business rules, use cases, requirements matrices, gap analyses,
and other business analysis artifacts as appropriate.
• Work in close coordination with the Project
Manager to plan and sequence business analysis activities, stakeholder
engagement, requirements reviews, testing activities, and deliverables.
Communicate requirements status, unresolved decisions, dependencies, risks, and
issues while supporting the Project Manager's responsibility for overall
project coordination, governance, schedule, and escalation.
• Provide business analysis support across
concurrent EHR initiatives, including new capabilities, system enhancements,
workflow changes, patient-facing functionality, and other efforts affecting the
agency's use of the EHR
Requirements:
Mandatory & preferential requirements include:
· Minimum of 3-5 years' experience as a business
analyst. Preference given to experience in federal/state government, public
health, healthcare, similar service-related business.
· Required bachelor's degree in business
administration, management, healthcare administration or related degree;
Preferred master's degree in MBA or MHA.
· Professional experience in business analysis,
prioritization, requirements gathering sessions.
· Experience developing executive-level reports,
process maps, workflow and SOP documentation, risk analysis.
· Lean Six Sigma, project management, change
management, business analysis, or related professional training or
certification is preferred.