Healthcare Business Analyst Jobs Overview

Who is Business Analyst ? A Business Analyst is the person who does Business Analysis. The role of a business analyst starts with requirements gathering from the customers(internal and external), analysing the requirements in the context of helping organizations to achieve their strategic goal, coming out with a requirements plan document that eventually gets signed-off from customers(requirement sign-off), communicating the requirements to development team and assist them in implementing an optimal solution, periodic reporting to the project manager on the project progress, and ends with complete testing of the solution to ensure reliability. The business analyst does the requirement analysis and comes out with an optimal plan in the context of an organization's strategic goal that involves amendments to organization's policies, processes, information systems. Business analysis is finding prominent importance in healthcare domain starting with Healthcare IT. The information technology department in a healthcare software development firm employs business analyst who forms the primary liasion between end clients who are generally hospitals, clinics, doctors with product management. They work with internal departments as well as interface with clients to develop and analyze functional and technical requirements to create and execute test and comprehensive test scripts. What is the healthcare business analyst career likely ? 1) Requirement gathering - As with business analyst in many other domain this career starts with gathering the requirement and create requirement documents like BRD, functional requirement document needed for project initiatives undertaken and to be undertaken by firm 2) Stakeholder collaboration - They co-ordinate all project activities involving demos, test team meetings, feedback sessions, focus groups, and orientations 3) System analysis - Analyzes the relationship between business functions and the system by preparing analysis documents like requirements, entity relationship models, dataflow diagrams, process specifications and design 4) system testing - though Qa does quality assurance final validation does involve business analyst 5) Cost planning and creation of cost plan - Performing cost benefit analysis and assists in developing business cases for projects is essentially role of senior business analyst who gets promoted as project manager 6) Assist scope management planning and execution with PMO - This involves determining scope and participates in establishing priorities for system changes 7) Report creation and communication with project stakeholders 8) Arrange meetings, co-ordinate meeting schedule with project planner, mailing meeting minutes to project stakeholders