At Stony Brook Medicine, a Clinical Systems Application Specialist is a valuable member of our team who will develop and support all applications/systems that the Clinical Information Systems department is responsible for. The incumbent may be assigned to a project team as part of technical build resource, or support any production systems to ensure the availability of the applications. The Clinical Systems Application Specialist may also oversee the work of other analysts as needed.

The Clinical Systems Application Specialist will be responsible for build in Cerner Millennium, and also investigating and resolving Cerner application issues using core Cerner tools such as Bedrock, Discern, Core Code Builder, Core Event Manager, and Ops View Scheduler. Daily responsibilities will include researching and building new functionality as needed, working with clinical end users and the vendor to determine the best and most innovative solutions.

Qualified candidates will demonstrate superior analytical skills and possess outstanding communication skills while adhering to our high standard of excellence.

Duties may include the following but are not limited to:

• Provides support to Clinical Information systems applications which includes our organization’s EHR and cross applications used in the clinical setting
• Provides technical and strategic input to leadership, reviews, analyzes and implements change/enhancement requests to help drive transformational changes.
• Plays an active role as a technical expert during application development and participates in brainstorming and design discussions with team members which includes participation in new projects when appropriate.
• Provides technical guidance and performs investigation to help resolve application issues including cross application challenges in order to maintain stability and reliability of all systems.
• Works closely with Project Managers on all aspects of project development and keeps management informed of project status.
• Provides assistance in testing system functionality as well as validating application integrity to ensure that current and new applications are technically sound
• Participates in Cerner application upgrades and implementations.
• Debug system problems as needed (his/her own, as well as programs written by others).
• Participates in all global and departmental process and system design activities
• Adheres to coding guidelines and standards of Information technology and documents all work according to standards
• Adheres to customer service standards.
• Provide on call/recall support.
• Provides reporting needs when necessary.
• All other duties as assigned