Become IT Analyst supporting laboratory environment

Healthcare is composed of many different information systems and one among this is the laboratory information system. As an IT analyst a person is involved in all layers of applications starting with policies, procedures, application architecture, implementation to support application, databases supporting applications, networking systems to name a few An IT analyst handling laboratory application is called laboratory IT Analyst Job role of laboratory IT Analyst involves: 1) They act as primary liaison between application development, implementation and marketing team. As such their knowledge and scope of work is broad covering application architecture, knowledge of application implementation, healthcare policies and procedures that govern such applications, business cases covering these applications, typical business operations involving day to day use of these applications to name a few 2) As a coordinator of product and business they are expected to exhibit the highest level of communication, marketing, collaborative skills. This involves scheduling and conducting of day-to-day meetings with project stakeholders including application development team, application implementation team, business team etc 3) They work directly with vendors, subject matter experts who provide requirement specification, create functional and business requirement documents etc, end user who are customers to make sure the application implemented does cater their needs 4) They perform analysis of workflow, collect data in an environment, create reports with data collected and come up with the technical glitches that are associated with current application implementation 5) Knowledge and understanding of laboratory IT applications covering many different modules is a special qualification expected out of laboratory IT analyst 6) Co-ordinate change management process and implement the changes in application software 7) Communicate the requirement to project management office and let them determine the inclusion of the feature request, bug fixes in upcoming product releases. Properly communicate the status to end users as needed 8) Travel to customer site on an as needed basis