Senior CDI Systems and Analytics Analyst – Solventum, EPIC SME

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Act as the primary technical and analytical resource for CDI leadership.

• Convert operational requests into dependable data extracts, validated reports, system requirements, workflow modifications, and effective automation.

• Assist with the Solventum implementation and ongoing enhancements in collaboration with CDI, coding, quality, IT, enterprise analytics, and vendor teams.

• Prepare, validate, and securely transmit authorized raw data files to Solventum.

• Develop and maintain source-to-target mappings along with a data dictionary.

• Reconcile source, exported, and accepted vendor records; detect errors and facilitate corrections and reprocessing.

• Aid in baseline extraction, historical data retention, and migration validation during the transition from Iodine to Solventum.

• Create, execute, and validate backend queries, extracts, dashboards, and reports in Solventum and Epic.

• Construct or adjust Epic reports, dashboards, and work queues according to assigned access.

• Confirm report logic against source records and sample encounters.

• Maintain reporting for review coverage, productivity, query response and agreement, reconciliation, CC/MCC capture, CMI, SOI/ROM, quality evaluations, and denials.

• Compile validated weekly and monthly reporting packages with trend analyses and discrepancy explanations.

• Transform CDI leadership requests into specifications for query templates, response options, reminders, escalation protocols, worklists, case statuses, assignment logic, and coder-to-CDI reconciliation workflows.

• Configure approved changes or coordinate builds with Epic analysts, IT, and Solventum.

• Design current and future-state process maps, flowcharts, swimlane diagrams, and responsibility matrices.

• Enhance worklist prioritization, evidence sheets, nudges, and quality review pathways.

• Analyze query response and closure patterns, unanswered queries, rejected recommendations, work queue aging, reconciliation delays, and missed opportunities.

• Utilize approved AI tools to draft workflow maps, report specifications, SQL/scripts, query-template revisions, presentations, and analyses; ensure outputs are verified before use.

• Automate recurring data preparation, report assembly, quality checks, and exception tracking using Power Query, Power Automate, or Python.

• Assist in evaluating Solventum AI outputs using clinically reviewed samples and track accepted/rejected suggestions.

• Maintain appropriate access, audit trails, and human review for AI-assisted tasks.

• Represent CDI technical needs in implementation meetings and manage request backlogs, issue logs, dependencies, and status updates.

• Develop test scenarios and coordinate user acceptance testing for extracts, reports, query workflows, interfaces, and application updates.

• Document test results, defects, retesting, and readiness for release.

• Evaluate downstream impacts of changes and maintain release notes and rollback plans.

• Troubleshoot CDI application and reporting issues, submit vendor tickets, escalate unresolved items, and confirm resolutions.

• Maintain operational procedures, technical references, and user manuals.

• Collaborate with CDI educators on training and provide supporting documentation.

⛳️ Requirements

• Permanent work status (USC/Greencard) is mandatory.

• Employees must live and work within the continental U.S.

• Recent hands-on experience with both Solventum CDI applications and Epic is essential.

• Candidates must have direct experience supporting both platforms in a healthcare environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in health informatics, health information management, information systems, data analytics, healthcare administration, or a related field; an equivalent combination of education and relevant technical experience may be considered.

• A minimum of five years of relevant healthcare application support, informatics, or analytics experience, including at least two years in CDI, coding, HIM, or inpatient revenue cycle systems.

• Hands-on experience with Solventum or 3M application support and Epic reporting or workflow.

• Knowledge of the Epic-to-Solventum integration, including encounter and document feeds, field mapping, query routing, provider response return, validation, and troubleshooting.

• Ability to build or modify Epic reports, dashboards, and work queues within granted access.

• Proficient in SQL, advanced Excel and Power Query, and Power BI or Tableau.

• Experience in data extraction and reconciliation, validating joins and aggregations, and troubleshooting reports.

• Familiarity with inpatient CDI and coding workflows, query lifecycles, DRGs, CC and MCC capture, CMI, SOI and ROM, and quality measures.

• Ability to differentiate working values from final coded values.

• Experience in writing system requirements, mapping workflows, testing changes, and managing technical issues across clinical, IT, and vendor teams.

• Strong attention to detail with the ability to clearly articulate technical findings.

• Preferred: Direct implementation or optimization experience with CDI Engage One and Epic integration; relevant Solventum training or Epic HIM or Cogito certification.

• Preferred: Experience with Epic Clarity, Caboodle, Reporting Workbench, Radar dashboards, SlicerDicer, or similar Epic reporting tools; familiarity with healthcare interfaces and secure file transfers.

• Preferred: Experience with approved AI tools, workflow automation, Python, or Power Automate, and with multi-facility reporting or migration from legacy CDI applications.

• Preferred: RHIA, RHIT, CCDS, or CDIP certification, or equivalent demonstrated CDI and HIM knowledge.

• Clinical licensure and a master’s degree are not required.

• Regular eye-hand coordination and manual dexterity are necessary for operating office equipment.

• Ability to work at a computer terminal for 6–8 hours a day.

• Ability to sit for extended periods.

• Occasionally able to lift and move materials weighing up to 20 lbs.

🏝️ Benefits

• Quality of life with a predictable, remote full-time schedule.

• Competitive salary based on experience.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, Vision coverage and more.

• Long-term disability insurance.

• Life insurance.

• Generous parental leave.

• 401K with company matching.

• Certification and Tuition Reimbursement.

• Holidays.

• Paid time off.