The Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine is searching for a Hospital Systems Programmer. The successful candidate will be responsible for the continued maintenance and development of the billing and patient registration system for the Matthew J. Ryan Small Animal Hospital, which is a custom UniVerse application. Candidates with experience with Java and relational database management systems, as well as experience with migrations from MV database environments, will receive preference.
To view the posting and apply for the position, visit https://jobs.hr.upenn.edu/ and click on the "Search Postings" link on the left side of the page. Search by reference number for listing 061020870. --------------- Rick Ward Director of Hospital Systems University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine >From the online posting: Duties: The Hospital Systems Programmer is responsible for the continued maintenance and development of the hospital billing and admit/discharge system which runs on the IBM Universe database. Over the next 3 to 4 years Penn Vet will be installing software, building interoperable and interchangeable information systems, and putting in place 3 to 5 major projects each year with the targeted outcome of creating a comprehensive electronic medical record (EMR). Our Hospital Systems Programmer is part of these new efforts and initiatives. Under general direction, the Hospital Systems Programmer is responsible for the continued maintenance and development of a hospital billing and admit/discharge system running on an IBM UniVerse multivalue database. This system fulfills the following functions: patient admit/discharge/transfer; financial management for hospitals and laboratories; medical records management; appointments and scheduling; limited pharmacy and inventory management; and some laboratory data management. The Hospital Systems Programmer will be expected to perform the following: 1) Work with various hospital business and administrative esolve any trouble or bug reports; 2) Document all work and refactor code as necessary to properly maintain the system and provide for better maintenance and support in the future; 3) Participate in project teams during new systems implementations and systems migrations. The Vet School's Philadelphia campus is an exciting place to work as staff, faculty, and students provide clinical practice through Ryan Hospital (the busiest small animal teaching hospital in the country, sees more than 28,000 small animal patient visits a year), graduate teaching program, and extensive research in basic and applied sciences. Penn Vet recently made a commitment to develop an EMR with the first major projects including approximately $1M in digital imaging and radiology information systems. Qualifications: The Hospital Systems Programmer reports directly to the Director of Hospital Information Systems and collaborates with other hospital systems programming staff, DBA, webmaster, helpdesk and systems administration staff. The successful candidate's resume should include five years progressively responsible experience developing and maintaining complex financial and billing systems applications. A bachelor's degree plus a minimum of three years experience programming with multivalue database environments, preferably IBM UniVerse, is required. Experience with other PICK-type databases will be considered. The successful candidate will also demonstrate expertise with enterprise-level relational database management systems (eg, Microsofts SQL Server, Oracle) and SQL. Experience with client/server application development is desired, especially J2EE. Hospital information systems experience, including financial systems, ADT, inventory management, and billing systems is highly preferred. Our candidates must have excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; have strong project planning, management and coordination skills; system development life cycle processes, change control and documentation skills; application sof successful candidate should have a demonstrated ability to work well with a diverse campus community, strong analytical and decision-making skills, and excellent interpersonal communication skills. Our programmers must also be able to work as a member of a team and have established planning and organizational skills. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
