Epic Prelude Analyst

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, which manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for an Epic Prelude Analyst based in the United States.** The Epic Prelude Analyst will play a key role in enhancing patient access, registration, scheduling, and front-end revenue cycle operations within a large healthcare organization. This full-time, six-month contract opportunity focuses on improving workflows through the design, development, testing, and implementation of Epic Prelude enhancements. You will collaborate with operational stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, assess existing processes, and deliver practical, scalable solutions. Working across a substantial backlog of enhancement requests, you will help optimize system functionality and improve operational efficiency. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to strategic healthcare technology initiatives while applying Epic expertise to real-world operational challenges. This remote position is ideal for an experienced, certified analyst who thrives in a collaborative environment and can independently manage projects from initial discovery through deployment. ### Accountabilities - **Enhancement Request Management:** Manage a substantial backlog of enhancement requests related to patient access, registration, scheduling, and front-end revenue cycle operations, ensuring requests are assessed, prioritized, and addressed effectively. - **Requirements Gathering & Discovery:** Lead discovery sessions with operational stakeholders to understand business needs, document functional requirements, and translate operational challenges into actionable system enhancements. - **Workflow Analysis & Optimization:** Evaluate existing patient access and registration workflows, identify inefficiencies and opportunities for improvement, and recommend solutions that support better operational performance. - **Epic Prelude Configuration & Development:** Design, build, configure, test, and implement Epic Prelude enhancements and optimizations aligned with business requirements and established system capabilities. - **Testing & Implementation:** Coordinate and execute testing activities to validate system functionality, confirm requirements are met, and support successful deployment of enhancements into production environments. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Partner with operational teams, technical specialists, and other stakeholders to ensure proposed solutions align with organizational objectives and integrate effectively with existing workflows. - **Best Practices & Advisory Support:** Provide recommendations on Epic Prelude functionality, workflow design, and application best practices to improve system utilization and support sustainable process improvements. - **End-to-End Enhancement Delivery:** Oversee assigned initiatives throughout the complete enhancement lifecycle, from intake and initial analysis through design, development, testing, deployment, and post-implementation support. - **Stakeholder Communication:** Maintain clear communication with business partners and project stakeholders regarding requirements, progress, priorities, potential challenges, and implementation outcomes. - **Independent Project Execution:** Balance multiple concurrent initiatives, manage competing priorities, and drive assigned enhancements forward while maintaining quality and meeting project expectations. ## Requirements - **Epic Prelude Certification:** Current Epic Prelude certification is required. - **Professional Experience:** At least 3 years of experience working as an Epic Prelude Analyst, including hands-on responsibility for system configuration, enhancements, optimization, and application support. - **Patient Access Expertise:** Strong understanding of patient access, registration, scheduling, and front-end revenue cycle workflows within a healthcare environment. - **Requirements & Workflow Analysis:** Demonstrated experience facilitating discovery sessions, gathering business requirements, documenting processes, and analyzing workflows to identify opportunities for system and operational improvements. - **Epic Application Skills:** Practical experience designing, building, testing, and implementing Epic Prelude enhancements, with the ability to recommend solutions aligned with application capabilities and established best practices. - **Testing & Implementation Experience:** Familiarity with testing methodologies, validation processes, deployment activities, and end-user support in healthcare application environments. - **Project & Enhancement Management:** Ability to manage enhancement requests throughout their lifecycle, organize a substantial backlog, and coordinate multiple initiatives simultaneously. - **Problem-Solving & Analytical Thinking:** Strong analytical skills and the ability to evaluate complex workflows, identify root causes, and develop effective, sustainable solutions. - **Communication & Stakeholder Management:** Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to facilitate stakeholder discussions, clarify requirements, and communicate technical concepts to operational audiences. - **Autonomy & Accountability:** Demonstrated ability to work independently, take ownership of assigned initiatives, manage competing priorities, and deliver results with minimal supervision. - **Preferred Experience:** Previous involvement in large-scale Epic enhancement programs, application optimization initiatives, or healthcare operational improvement projects is highly desirable. - **Remote Work Readiness:** Ability to collaborate effectively with distributed teams and manage project responsibilities in a remote working environment. ## Benefits - **Remote Work Flexibility:** Work remotely from anywhere in the United States. - **Full-Time Contract Engagement:** Six-month contract opportunity supporting a major healthcare technology enhancement initiative. - **High-Impact Projects:** Contribute to large-scale improvements in patient access, registration, scheduling, and revenue cycle operations. - **Professional Development:** Expand your experience with Epic Prelude optimization, healthcare workflows, application enhancement, and enterprise-level system improvements. - **Cross-Functional Collaboration:** Work closely with healthcare operational stakeholders and multidisciplinary technology teams. - **End-to-End Project Ownership:** Gain the opportunity to manage enhancements across discovery, requirements gathering, design, configuration, testing, and implementation. - **Meaningful Healthcare Impact:** Help improve operational workflows and the systems that support patient access and healthcare delivery. - **Compensation:** Salary or hourly rate information was not specified in the available job description and should be confirmed during the recruitment process. - **Additional Benefits:** Healthcare coverage, paid time off, retirement benefits, and other employment perks were not specified for this contract engagement.