Associate Application Analyst Jobs in Illinois (NOW HIRING)

Location: Chicago, Illinois / Hybrid

Business Unit: Rush Medical Center

Hospital: Rush University Medical Center

Department: Procedural & Ancillary IT Svcs

Work Type: Full Time (Total FTE between 0. 9 and 1. 0)

Shift: Shift 1

Work Schedule: 8 Hr (8:00:00 AM - 5:00:00 PM)

Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits learn more at our Rush benefits page (https://www.rush.edu/rush-careers/employee-benefits).

Pay Range: $38.07 - $56.73 per hour
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Summary:

We are seeking a skilled and driven Senior Clinical Application Analyst to support and enhance clinical systems that power patient care and operational efficiency across our organization. In this role, you will play a key part in the design, configuration, implementation, and optimization of clinical applications, partnering closely with clinical, informatics, and IT teams to deliver impactful technology solutions.

As a senior analyst, you will lead efforts to translate clinical and operational requirements into effective system configurations, ensuring applications are optimized to support evolving business needs. You’ll be involved in the full lifecycle of clinical systems—including implementations, upgrades, system enhancements, testing, and ongoing maintenance—while continuously identifying opportunities to improve workflows and system performance.

This position is ideal for a proactive, detail-oriented professional with strong experience in clinical application support, healthcare IT systems, and system integration. You’ll serve as a key liaison between technical teams and clinical stakeholders, helping to drive improvements that enhance user experience, streamline processes, and support high-quality patient care.

The ideal candidate brings a solid foundation in clinical informatics, system configuration, and data analysis, along with excellent communication and problem-solving skills. Experience supporting specialty areas such as Radiology, Cardiology, PACS, Voice Recognition, or VNA systems is a plus.

Exemplifies the Rush mission, vision and values and acts in accordance with Rush policies and procedures.

Responsibilities:

• Reviews and analyzes requests for current and new clinical systems or system enhancements.
• Develops, maintains, and optimizes all assigned clinical software solutions.
• Completes management-approved documentation necessary for all planned database configurations, tests, implementations, upgrades, and conversions including work plans, test plans, data audit plans, and implementation schedules.
• Reviews system and process design to discover opportunities for improvement or consideration of new technologies.
• Engages departmental management and staffs in ongoing analysis of business processes with new or existing systems.
• Builds, tests, and implements computer applications and other systems that support clinical initiatives.
• Serves as a liaison between project team members and other IS resources while providing exemplary customer service and application support and development for all assigned clinical healthcare IT systems.
• Performs modification of applications as needed to meet business and clinical requirements.
• Interacts with clinical informatics to understand new business requirements and enhancement requests.
• Documents issues with resolutions and share with team members to improve team productivity.
• Take initiative and drives to bring to logical conclusion; proactive approach, including continual improvement of knowledge of supported systems.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Required Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of clinical experience or designing, building and supporting clinical applications OR High School plus 9 years of clinical experience or designing, building and supporting clinical applications
• An Associate degree and seven (7) years of clinical experience or designing, building and supporting clinical applications will be accepted in lieu of a Bachelor’s.
• Experience defining clinical and operating requirements, and translate requirements into clear, specific, actionable system configurations, and the ability to implement those configurations.
• Ability to test and audit personally developed system configurations, in order to assure functional accuracy.
• Knowledge of systems implementation which may include analysis, specification design, and implementation.
• Clear and concise verbal and written communication skills.
• Relationship, teamwork, and project management skills.
• Strong conceptual, process, and data analysis skills, an in-depth understanding of medical practice informatics, clinical, and operating data sets.
• PC proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word).

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• Previous clinical experience preferred in Radiology, or Cardiology, or IR, etc.
• Prior PACs, Voice Recognition, and/or VNA (vendor neutral archive) experience.

Rush is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.