Healthcare Application Developer

We Are Hiring

Join our Physician Support Services Team as an Application Developer (IS Specialist) . This is a Full-Time position with competitive compensation, professional development, well-being programs and holistic growth opportunities. Work-life balance through generous paid time off, tuition reimbursement, adoption assistance, medical, dental, vision and retirement match.

Located at our Michigan Corporate Services – Warren, MI with the flexibility to work some hours remotely.

Why Join Ascension?

In Michigan, Ascension operates 16 hospitals and hundreds of related healthcare facilities that together employ over 20,000 associates. Across the state, Ascension Michigan is working together to help bring patients more resources and better care. Ascension Michigan is also committed to its community; it provided over $272 million in community benefit and care of persons living in poverty in FY2018. Ascension Michigan is dedicated to spiritually centered, holistic care which sustains and improves the health of individuals and communities.

Ascension is a faith-based healthcare organization dedicated to transformation through innovation across the continuum of care. As one of the leading non-profit and Catholic health systems in the U.S., Ascension is committed to delivering compassionate, personalized care to all, with special attention to persons living in poverty and those most vulnerable. In FY2019, Ascension provided $2 billion in care of persons living in poverty and other community benefit programs.

Ascension includes more than 150,000 associates and 40,000 aligned providers. The national health system operates more than 2,600 sites of care – including 150 hospitals and more than 50 senior living facilities – in 20 states and the District of Columbia, while providing a variety of services including clinical and network services, venture capital investing, investment management, biomedical engineering, facilities management, risk management, and contracting through Ascension’s own group purchasing organization.

What You Will Do

As an Associate with Ascension-MI, you will have the opportunity to develop, maintain and provide advanced support activities for information systems and applications for an assigned service or area.

Responsibilities:

Evaluates processes, formulates systems and application design, and develops and implements systems projects. Develops, implements and supports all configuration and data report changes.

Produces routine and ad-hoc reports and queries from application systems.

Designs, builds and maintains training and development documentation for designated systems. Conducts end user training for designated systems.

Serves as a liaison between information systems and other departments on topics such as file maintenance, software changes, and problem resolution.

Provides regular support to a specific area, including training & technical support.

What You Will Need

Education:

Diploma
High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate’s degree, or Bachelor’s degree required.

Preferred Skills/Knowledge:

3-5 years of experience and/or able to demonstrate equivalent proficiency in 3 or more of the following

Datawarehouse: DW Principals, Business requirement collection, SQL data modeling, ability to translate technical specifications into business processes and vice versa

Secure Web Portal development/maintenance: .NET, C#, Angular, Web API 2, Ouath2, SQL Design and Optimization

Creation/support of ETL packages using .NET, C#, SQL SSIS or an equivalent technology

Advanced data analytics and visualization (i.e. Microsoft Excel, PowerBI, Alteryx, Tableau or equivalent applications)

Healthcare interfacing, HIE and especially experience with HL7 Messaging Standards (CDA/CCD/FHIR, etc.)

Creation and consuming of RESTful APIs

Working knowledge of HIPAA and information security best practices. Exposure to healthcare data types and terminology helpful (i.e. what is a CPT Code, what’s an ICD10 code, what is an MPI)