Position Summary
Compass Laboratory Services is seeking an experienced Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) Analyst to support, maintain, and optimize laboratory technology systems that are critical to clinical operations, patient care, and laboratory efficiency. This role serves as the bridge between laboratory operations and information technology, ensuring reliable system performance, seamless instrument integration, accurate result reporting, and compliance with healthcare regulations.
The ideal candidate combines strong clinical laboratory workflow knowledge with healthcare IT and LIS experience.
Key Responsibilities
Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Configure, support, maintain, and optimize Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) and related applications.
- Collaborate with laboratory leadership, pathologists, clinical staff, IT teams, and vendors to improve workflows and system performance.
- Design, test, implement, troubleshoot, and support LIS enhancements, upgrades, and integrations.
- Manage interfaces between laboratory instruments, middleware, LIS, and EHR systems, including order entry and results reporting.
- Analyze laboratory workflows and translate operational requirements into effective system solutions.
- Provide end-user support, training, and issue resolution for laboratory personnel.
- Maintain system documentation, change control records, and operational procedures.
- Maintain LIS test database builds and work with LIS vendor for support requirements.
- Participate in system implementation projects and full lifecycle upgrades.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Clinical Laboratory Science, Healthcare Informatics, Medical Technology, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent combination of education and experience).
- Minimum 3 years of laboratory information systems, healthcare IT, or clinical laboratory experience (8 years required without a bachelor's degree).
- Experience supporting laboratory workflows, specimen processing, instrument interfacing, and results reporting.
- Experience with at least one major LIS platform, such as:
- Sunquest
- Clinisys
- Epic Beaker
- Cerner PathNet
- Cerner CoPath
- Cerner Millennium PowerChart
- Meditech
- Orchard
- Allscripts Lab
- LABDAQ
- McKesson Blood Bank
- Experience with Data Innovations Instrument Manager/Data Manager preferred.
- Strong analytical, troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively with clinical stakeholders, laboratory staff, and cross-functional teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with HL7 interfaces, middleware, instrument connectivity, and integration engines.
- Clinical laboratory, hospital lab, physical office lab, plus other health system IT experience.
- Project management and system upgrade experience.
- Professional certifications such as PMP, ITIL, CPHIMS.
- Knowledge of healthcare regulatory and accreditation standards, including CAP, CLIA, JHACO, ISO XXX, and HIPAA requirements.
- Experience with physician office front-end ordering systems (CPOE), such as LabWorks, CareEvolve, 4Medica, etc.
- Minimum one full lifecycle laboratory implementation projects.
Technical Skills
- Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) administration and optimization
- Laboratory instrument integration and middleware
- HL7 messaging and interface management
- EHR/LIS interoperability
- Workflow analysis and process improvement
- Regulatory compliance and healthcare data management
- SQL and database management
- Data analysis and reporting
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Troubleshooting and end-user LIS support.
Competencies
1. Communication Proficiency.
2. Teamwork.
3. Technical Capacity.
4. Detail Oriented.
5. Business Acumen.
6. Customer/Client Focus.
7. Results Driven.
8. Excellent Organizational Skills.
9. Positive Attitude.
Supervisory Responsibility
This position has no direct and indirect supervisory responsibilities.
Work Environment
This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines. Healthcare, Clinical Laboratory, or Health System IT setting with limited travel requirements.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
· While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
· The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
· Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
· Must be able to lift 15 pounds at times.
Position Type/Expected Hours of Work
This is a full-time position.
Other Duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
