EMR Medical Analyst

Company description:

As an organisation we have a clear focus on how we service and partner with our community, including our strategy of helping the community stay well when at home. Our reputation of community minded, inclusive and progressive is matched to none.

Job description:

Northern Health are seeking applications from motivated and suitably experienced EMR Medical Analyst to join the Electronic Medical Record (EMR) team, for a fixed term period from September 2025 to July 2026.

Northern Health is the major provider of acute, maternity, sub-acute, mental health, specialist, community and home-based services in Melbourne's rapidly growing outer north.

Services are provided through our five main campuses:

Northern Hospital Epping, Broadmeadows Hospital, Bundoora Centre, Craigieburn Centre, and Kilmore District Hospital. In addition, Mental Health Services are provided at Epping, Broadmeadows, Jacana, Preston, Mill Park and Coburg.

About the Role:

Northern Health has implemented an integrated EMR System with the vision of 'One patient' and 'One integrated record' to optimise the quality and safety of patient care. The scope of Northern Health's EMR includes medication management, real-time decision support, device integration and specialist modules for ICU, Emergency, Maternity, Surgery and Anaesthesia.

The EMR Medical Analyst will be responsible for the analysis, design, build, configuration, testing and conversion of the EMR at Northern Health. The EMR Medical Analyst is responsible for the review of existing workflows, content and configuration to contribute to the optimisation of current workflows and the design of new workflows from a medical perspective.

The EMR Medical Analyst will be required to have a good level of knowledge for each of the following EMR applications:

• Care Delivery
• Core and Patient Movement
• Orders and Results
• Emergency Firstnet
• Surgery Surginet/Anaesthesia
• Medications
• Maternity
• Technical device

The EMR Medical Analyst is required to have strong clinical workflow knowledge and possess business analytic skills. The EMR Medical Analyst will have the ability to work autonomously and analyse clinical workflows, collect and review data in the data collection workbooks. The EMR Medical Analyst will work collaboratively with the EMR team, service departments and clinical staff for all EMR related matters.

To be successful in this role you will have:

• Medical registration with the Medical Board of Australia under the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
• Undergraduate medical qualification as a first degree - MBBS, MD or equivalent
• A medical background, with an interest in computerised workflows, best practice, innovation, clinical documentation and healthcare informatics
• Demonstrated experience working in a metropolitan hospital environment and understanding of clinical workflows in the acute and subacute inpatient settings
• Critical thinking, strong analytical and troubleshooting skills to investigate and understand issues that may have clinical implications
• Experience using common business analysis software such as Microsoft Visio and excel
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, the ability to effectively communicate with stakeholders within the organisation with an eye for detail
• Demonstrated ability to manage and triage defects during the testing processes
• Ability to consistently demonstrate behaviours that reinforce the values of our organisation; Safe, Kind, Together with all project stakeholders, colleagues and our patients and consumers

Next Steps

If this opportunity sounds like the next step in your career, then we would love to hear from you. Please click on the 'Apply' button and follow the prompts.

For further details, please refer to the Position Description. Alternatively, you can contact Gladis Thomas, EMR Senior Analyst Care Delivery Lead, or Thomas Ko, EMR Operations Manager,

Applications close indicate date 25 September 2025.