Liang Wu

Fifteen years of experience in healthcare IT as an Epic Clinical Analyst supporting clinical workflow, documentation, order entry, decision support, and data integration across major health systems. Extensive experience with Epic ClinDoc, CPOE, Order Sets, Best Practice Advisories, Navigators, SmartTools, Reporting Workbench, LPP, PAF, CER, rules, and related clinical configuration. Expert in translating complex clinical requirements into Epic workflows, build specifications, decision logic, and system functionality.

Experienced in workflow analysis, requirements gathering, integrated testing, data validation, troubleshooting, implementation, and production support. Strong background working directly with physicians, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and operational teams to improve usability, workflow efficiency, and multidisciplinary communication. Experienced in clinical data analysis, migration, mapping, validation, and reporting using Epic data sources, SQL, Access, MySQL, and Oracle.

Collaborate with Epic application teams and technical teams on integrated clinical projects, providing workflow design, configuration requirements, data analysis, and validation support. Strong clinical and technical background with experience identifying workflow gaps, optimizing system design, and educating users on effective use of Epic functionality.

Senior Clinical Analyst at City of Hope (2022-07 – Present)

Supported clinicians with Epic documentation, order entry, and workflow design for providers, case managers, and registered nurses.

• Partnered with the Beaker team on the Tempus precision laboratory project, building complex lab ordering workflows for multiple precision medicine tests with specimen-specific requirements, regulatory constraints, cascading order questions, rules, SmartText, and order validation to improve submission accuracy.
• Built a laboratory overview module within the Nursing Brain to organize lab-related tasks, give nurses visibility into completed and pending lab draws, and support planning of upcoming specimen collection.
• Automated provider notification tasks for critical laboratory results generated from the Beaker laboratory application.
• Led nutrition workflow design and integration with a third-party nutrition system, including mapping tables, hospital-specific order questions, product and flavor requirements, and rules for NPO, diet, and tube-feeding workflows.
• Developed reports combining patient diet, nutrition, and insulin information to support more efficient meal preparation and delivery by culinary teams.
• Used data-driven configuration to dynamically display relevant flowsheet rows for ultrasound-guided peripheral IV insertion, reducing unnecessary documentation fields and improving workflow usability.

Clinical Programmer Analyst at AS International (2015-01 – Present)

Working as full stack developer on a web site for chronic disease management from scratch, using MEAN stack technology. Web based system to manage patient health care with different chronic disease, use components to implement functionalities (use-defined forms and graphs with various content), make the frontend presentation heavily dynamic based patient's diagnosis, current health problem, and risk management for more serious health problem. Due to customization as the feature of the architecture, the system can work for care providers to manage various disease.

• Version of angular used: angular 7+.
• Other technique: node JS, mongo DB.

Epic Clinical Inpatient Analyst/Architect at UTHealth (2021-01 – 2022-07)

• Workflow: help nurses, care providers, social work clinicians design dynamic order set and BPA, utilizing Epic smart tool(smartlink, smarttext, smartphase, smartform) to implement data driven workflow.
• Navigator: Design navigator for variant data source: ADT, ClinDoc, Order, Willow, etc. based on clinical workflow for different clinical roles.
• Reporting: Utilize Epic data report tool: Reporting Workbench, LPP, PAF, CER, etc.
• Quality Control: Define data source: Communicated with different clinical disciplinary team, analyze system workflow, gather information about data source for database for Behavioral health quality control.
• Data analysis: NRI data analysis and validation as EMR system migrated from sunrise to Epic.
• Report Date validation by creating error report and dashboard.

Senior Clinical Analyst at Penn Medicine (2011-01 – 2018-10)

• Analyze requests and build templates for clinicians in different clinical roles: wound specialists, respiratory therapists, social workers, registered nurses, doctors, etc.
• Implement hospital-specific workflows with available system capabilities
• The purpose of the template is to collect digital data, provide reports and charts for clinicians to review and make clinical decisions.
• Automate implementations to provide clinicians with alerts such as allergy alerts, drug interactions, screening results, and clinical pathways.

Programmer at Dendrite (2001-01 – 2003-01)

• Developed production, test and beta websites using Qlikview
• Reviewed reports to assess performance and identify areas for operational improvement
• Designed software configuration to meet multiple website system hosting requirements

Master of Science in Computer Science – New Jersey Institute of Technology (2001)

Bachelor of Science in Medicine – Chongqing Medical University (1995)