Pharmacist IS Analyst

Pharmacist IS Analyst at ECU Health

Position Summary

The Pharmacist Analyst role utilizes pharmaceutical clinical knowledge and expertise to complete build and support the Epic Willow Inpatient Application, medications impacting Epic Beacon Oncology protocols and therapy plans, as well as other medication requirements. This role supports completion of formulary requests that requires understanding of pharmacy operations and data analytics skills to ensure solutions meet the needs of the organization. The candidate must have the ability to evaluate clinical operations to analyze workflows to recommend alternative approaches in developing process improvements to address identified issues. This includes reviewing new/improved capabilities, translating needs to functional requirements, and identifying, defining and developing solutions to application and system problems. The work activities require effective communication and facilitation skills needed to interface with varied audiences, and problem-solving skills to maximize capabilities to meet the operational needs. This role uses knowledge of information technology (IT) systems and medication-use processes to improve patient care by supporting technologies that lead to safer, more cost effective medication use across ECU Health. This role leverages knowledge of pharmacy practice, pharmacy automation, clinical information systems, and pharmacy computer systems working in concert with the Manager of Pharmacy Applications.

Minimum Requirements

• BS/Pharmacy or Doctor of Pharmacy registered/licensed with the North Carolina State Board of Pharmacy.
• Residency training in inpatient pharmacy practice, drug information or inpatient pharmacy administration or equivalent experience required
• 2+ years of Information Technology/Clinical Systems experience preferred
• 3+ years of experience involving pharmacy practice, drug information or pharmacy administration required
• Operational knowledge of healthcare areas such as nursing, perioperative services, emergency department and support services required
• Ability to provide simple to moderate qualitative and quantitative analysis on data and information as part of medication requirements gathering prior to build.
• Proven ability to lead the management of clinical knowledge databases (e.g. drug-drug interactions, route selection, etc.), guideline compliance rules (e.g. hard edits and reminders), and decision support toolsets (e.g. best practice advisories).
• Leverages pharmacy practice experience to create and manage a standardized formulary (administration, clinical, ordering and dispensing) and resulting impact of changes to downstream ancillary systems across the multi-site healthcare environment
• Obtains and/or maintains current certification from the vendor and continued education/learning to understand the functionality of the electronic health record.
• Working knowledge of the Microsoft Office Suite
• Experience with IT best practices (build tracking, change management, end user testing and/or integrated testing, mock live, go-live support, and transition to support).
• Able to work in a dynamically changing environment with competing priorities.
• Ability to communicate clinical concepts to technical team and system design concepts to end users.
• Ability to effectively validate and support clinical applications

About ECU Health

ECU Health is a mission-driven, 1,708-bed academic health care system serving more than 1.4 million people in 29 eastern North Carolina counties. The not-for-profit system is comprised of 13,000 team members, nine hospitals and a physician group that encompasses over 1,100 academic and community providers practicing in over 180 primary and specialty clinics located in more than 130 locations. The flagship ECU Health Medical Center, a Level I Trauma Center, and ECU Health Maynard Children’s Hospital serve as the primary teaching hospitals for the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. ECU Health and the Brody School of Medicine share a combined academic mission to improve the health and well-being of eastern North Carolina through patient care, education and research.

Key skills/competency

• Epic Willow Inpatient
• Pharmacy Operations
• Clinical Systems
• Data Analytics
• Workflow Analysis
• IT Best Practices
• Formulary Management
• Electronic Health Records (EHR)
• Medication Use Process
• Clinical Knowledge Databases