Healthcare IT Consultant - Laboratory Operations and Oracle Cerner Millennium

Centurion is looking for a Healthcare IT Consultant for one of our federal government clients. This is a longer-term project. Open to US Citizens. 100% remote.

Required Skills:

3+ years supporting healthcare IT in a clinical, operational, or analyst capacity, with significant exposure to laboratory operations and workflows.

Hands-on experience with Oracle Cerner Millennium, with preference for PathNet and lab-related workflows.

Experience supporting EHR/LIS implementations or migrations, including requirements, testing, go-live support, and sustainment.

Working knowledge of interfaces/integrations and ability to collaborate on troubleshooting (including HL7 concepts and lab result flows).

Strong communication and facilitation skills; proven ability to work with clinical leaders, laboratorians, and technical teams.

Experience producing clear artifacts: workflow maps, requirements documentation, test evidence, decision briefs, and status reporting.

Experience providing PMO (Project Management Office) support.

Preferred Skills:

Experience supporting modernization programs in federal or large enterprise environments (multi-stakeholder governance, structured change control).

Familiarity with reference lab connectivity and vendor coordination (e.g., LabCorp/Quest).

Experience with Cerner PowerChart components used in care delivery workflows (e.g., mPages, PowerForms, Event Set Hierarchy).

Certification(s) in Oracle Cerner/Millennium solutions. PMO/project leadership credentials (e.g., PMP; Agile/Scrum). Background in lab quality/regulatory support (e.g., CAP readiness, SOPs, audits).

Familiarity with healthcare regulatory requirements (e.g., HIPAA, HITECH).

Day-to-day Responsibilities:

Analyze, document, and optimize end-to-end laboratory clinical and business workflows (general lab, microbiology, transfusion medicine, anatomic pathology as applicable). Support Oracle Cerner Millennium (PathNet) design/build validation activities, including requirements gathering artifacts (e.g., workbooks), decision support documentation, and stakeholder readouts.

Serve as a liaison between the EHR vendor/system integrator and laboratory end users, facilitating workshops, capturing actions/decisions, and aligning on best-practice workflows.

Plan and execute testing (wet/dry), validation, and go-live readiness, including defect triage and functional retesting to support safe lab operations and regulatory expectations. Support LIS/EHR migration and cutover planning activities, including pre-go-live readiness assessments and integrated workflow validation.

Partner with interface/integration teams to support lab interfaces and results routing, including investigating and correcting HL7-related issues and coordinating resend/reconciliation as needed.

Contribute to training and adoption (review/improve training materials; train end users; provide elbow support).

Support regulatory and quality activities (e.g., internal audits, CAP inspection support, SOP alignment).

Provide project coordination / PMO support (risk/issue tracking, schedules, status reporting, meeting facilitation). and translate needs into functional specifications.

Education:

Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a related discipline (informatics, computer science, healthcare, biology, laboratory sciences).