Meriter HospitalSenior Programmer/Analyst
Jan. 2003 - Dec. 2010Madison, WisconsinCoordinated report development from specification through testing and maintenance for Epic Clarity and Reporting Workbench reports including integrated reporting across multiple Epic applications throughout the hospital Example reporting areas: Revenue statistics, Charge masterfile audit, Diagnosis/procedure usage and masterfile audits, Outpatient clinic statistics (visit type utilization, check-in to check-out turnaround times), Preadmission Report Card, Readmissions, Emergency Services case management, Pharmacy drug utilization, Operating Room procedures and materials usage, Surgical infection prevention compliance, Restraints compliance, Pain Management, Chart deficiency tracking, Medical records storage audits Communicated and collaborated regularly with executives, departments managers, application specialists, and business analysts to design and build application functionality (e.g., clinical flowsheets, custom fields) that meet technical requirements of future report development, report on project progress, and manage expectations Standardized reporting development process, including report request specifications, standard report formatting and coding/design for export to pdf, excel and character-delimited formats, and ftp delivery Optimized Business Objects scheduling conventions to manage on-time delivery of hundreds of daily, weekly, and monthly reports Managed major Clarity database upgrade, including planning for test database, testing and modification of hundreds of reports Performed ongoing audits of reports to determine the cause of long-running reports, optimize SQL queries, and index key database fields Developed and maintained data files including measures for Medicare/Medicaid, Joint Commission core measures, internal auditing, and workflow optimization Implemented report customizations allowing reporting super-users to select parameters and schedule or run reports on demand Conducted in-house trainings on integrated data models and SQL