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Senior Pharmacy Analyst

Location: King of Prussia,PA 19406
Employment Type: Full Time
Reference Code:: 20479

Job Description:

Universal Health Services, Inc is one of the largest and most respected hospital management companies in the nation. Our principal business is owning and operating, through our subsidiaries, acute care hospitals, behavioral health centers, surgical hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, and radiation oncology centers. As of June, 2009, we owned and/or operated or had under construction 26 acute care hospitals and 113 behavioral health centers in 32 states, Washington, DC and Puerto Rico.

UHS is beginning a major new project to replace large components of our Clinical Information Systems. As such, UHS is aggressively expanding our IT staffing levels by hiring additional employees. These positions will be located at both our Corporate Headquarters in King of Prussia, PA and in our Acute Care Hospitals across the US. Currently the corporate IS department is staffed by more than 175 experienced healthcare IT professionals, including a number of employees with clinical licenses, degrees or certifications, including Nurses, Medical Technicians, and a Physician Consultant.

As a Sr. Pharmacy Analyst, you will be responsible for the following tasks:

· Supports the implementation of UHS Pharmacy and Pharmacy Related applications in a Multi-Entity, 20 plus Acute Care Hospital Environment

· Monitors the resolution of maintenance or enhancement issues assigned by the UHS Customer Support Center

· Design new or determine modifications to existing applications that will effectively accomplish desired objectives

· Provides technical support to UHS entities as needed

· Coordinates work assignments given in order to meet deadlines and ensure continued progress toward assignment completion

· Shares experience and expertise with other members of team

· Serves as lead on Pharmacy System Conversions and Implementations

· May supervise one or more IS Analysts

Requirements:

· Minimum of 3 years of progressively more responsible Pharmacy Information Systems experience

· Working knowledge of system application implementation, enhancement and support methods and practices

· Comprehensive working knowledge of Pharmacy and related computer systems such as Med Distribution and Order Management Systems (ie. Pyxis and Pyxis Connect), analysis and programming techniques and procedures, including: consulting with users to determine hardware, software or system functional specifications; design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, coding, debugging, or modification of computer systems or programs based on and related to user design specifications

· Working knowledge of IS standards and quality methods and metrics

· Working knowledge of project management methods

· General familiarity of user business practices, concepts and terminology sufficient to support the applications

· Language proficiency in English, with excellent written and verbal fluency

· Large scale healthcare systems planning and implementation experience in integrated application software products is preferred

· 25% domestic US travel (depending on projects and Go Lives).

For immediate consideration, please apply to:

https://uhs.ats.hrsmart.com/cgi-bin/a/highlightjob.cgi?jobid=20479

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