Application Specialist

Job Description: $80-$130/hour - 4 month contract with extensions up to multiple years

MOSTLY REMOTE - may be a requirement for on-site support during testing and cut over periods in Thunder Bay, ON

**TRAVEL + ACCOMMODATION EXPENSES COVERED

Primary responsibility for supporting the Laboratory work stream and will work closely with Laboratory leadership, Medical Laboratory Technologists, clinical stakeholders, Informatics, IT, interface teams, vendors and the broader MEDITECH implementation team to ensure the Laboratory solution is appropriately designed, configured, integrated, tested, implemented and supported through go-live.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide subject matter expertise for Meditech Expanse Laboratory configuration throughout the implementation.

• Support requirements validation, workflow analysis, solution design, configuration and implementation.

• Work with Laboratory stakeholders to translate clinical and operational workflows into Meditech Expanse.

• Support Laboratory dictionaries, rules, workflows and application configuration.

• Support Laboratory disciplines including Chemistry, Hematology, Microbiology, Transfusion Medicine/Blood Bank, specimen processing and related workflows, as applicable.

• Support integration with laboratory instruments, analyzers, middleware and external systems.

• Participate in unit, integrated, regression and user acceptance testing.

• Support issue identification, troubleshooting and resolution.

• Assist with data conversion and validation where required.

• Support workflow documentation, training and knowledge transfer.

• Participate in readiness, cutover, command centre and go-live activities.

• Provide post-live stabilization and optimization support.

• Work collaboratively with the Bridge Northwest Project Team, Informatics Team, Meditech and other implementation partners.

Required Skills & Experience

• Significant hands-on Meditech Laboratory implementation experience.

• Direct experience with Meditech Expanse, ideally involving a new implementation.

• Strong understanding of hospital Laboratory workflows and operations.

• Experience across the EMR implementation lifecycle, including design, configuration, testing, cutover, go-live and stabilization.

• Experience with laboratory instrumentation, interfaces and middleware.

• Strong troubleshooting, documentation and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Ability to work directly with both Laboratory professionals and technical/informatics teams.

Vacancy: This role is for a new vacant opening within a new project

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