Clinical Implementation Specialist - Healthca

ELLKAY provides healthcare data management, interoperability, and connectivity solutions to healthcare organizations. The Clinical Implementation Consultant serves as the clinical subject matter expert for healthcare data archiving, legacy-system retirement, and clinical data migration, translating clinical requirements into solution design, mapping, testing, and validation activities. The role collaborates with cross-functional technical and implementation teams and supports client engagement, training, go-live, and transition to support.

Responsibilities:

• Gather, analyze, document, and validate clinical, workflow, operational, and historical-record requirements
• Analyze legacy clinical applications and workflows to understand how patient information is captured, presented, and used
• Identify clinically significant data, workflow dependencies, and record-access requirements that impact solution design. including but not limited to medications, allergies, diagnoses, problem lists, laboratory results, clinical notes, encounters, documents, images, and historical reports
• Translate clinical requirements into clear functional, configuration, data-mapping, testing, and validation requirements
• Identify solution gaps, limitations, risks, and dependencies and recommend appropriate alternatives
• Partner with Project Management to support scope, milestones, client expectations, and implementation planning
• Serve as the clinical SME for archive solution design, configuration, and clinical data-mapping decisions
• Collaborate with Data Analysis, Data Mapping, Data Modeling, Engineering, and Quality Assurance throughout implementation
• Review data mappings and transformation decisions to ensure clinical meaning, context, chronology, and relationships are preserved
• Evaluate how structured and unstructured clinical content is represented and accessed within the archive
• Identify and escalate gaps, inconsistencies, or unintended changes in clinical meaning or usability
• Partner with technical teams to resolve clinical data, configuration, display, and usability issues
• Develop and execute clinical validation plans, test scenarios, and acceptance criteria
• Perform clinical-data validation alongside technical reconciliation and QA activities
• Develop clinically realistic test scenarios reflecting clinical care, HIM, ROI, compliance, audit, legal, and historical-record retrieval needs
• Validate that archived records are accurate, complete, clinically coherent, interpretable, and usable
• Lead or support client demonstrations, database turnover, User Acceptance Testing, and validation activities
• Assess clinical-data and solution readiness before client validation and production use
• Identify, document, prioritize, and escalate clinical defects, data-quality concerns, usability issues, and implementation risks
• Provide documented clinical readiness recommendations to support turnover and go/no-go decisions
• Serve as a trusted clinical advisor and liaison between clients and internal implementation teams
• Participates in project pass-off, status, validation, go-live, and lessons-learned meetings
• Translate client feedback and clinical requirements into actionable project tasks, decisions, and follow-up activities
• Communicate clinical risks, dependencies, decisions, and unresolved issues clearly and promptly
• Manage client expectations within established scope, timelines, solution capabilities, and project constraints
• Develop and deliver training, workflow guidance, and implementation resources
• Support go-live, stabilization, and transition to operational support
• Identify opportunities to improve implementation, validation, training, and client-readiness processes

Requirements:

• An associate degree or higher in Nursing, Clinical Informatics, Health Information Management, an ancillary healthcare field, or a related discipline; or 5+ years of relevant clinical healthcare experience
• Working knowledge of clinical workflows in hospital, health-system, ambulatory, or medical-office environments
• Experience with EHRs, clinical information systems, healthcare data migration, data conversion, interfaces, clinical informatics, or healthcare technology implementation
• Experience working with cross-functional teams, healthcare clients, vendors, or technical partners
• Strong clinical judgment, critical-thinking, analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, organization, and meeting-facilitation skills
• Experience gathering, analyzing, documenting, and validating clinical or operational requirements
• Ability to manage multiple priorities, work across concurrent implementations, meet deadlines, and operate effectively within cross-functional teams
• Proficiency with standard business and productivity applications
• Demonstrated ability to identify and escalate risks while maintaining clear ownership and accountability for assigned deliverables
• Current or previous clinical licensure or professional credential, such as RN, LPN, RHIA, RHIT, or another relevant healthcare credential
• Experience in clinical informatics, nursing informatics, HIM, ROI, healthcare data governance, or clinical systems implementation
• Experience with EHR archiving, legacy-system retirement, EHR conversion, healthcare data migration, or interoperability
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards, including HL7 and FHIR
• Knowledge of healthcare privacy, medical-record retention, disclosure, and regulatory requirements