Clinical Analyst Jobs in Tennessee
Clinical Analyst jobs in Tennessee are in strong demand, with consistent openings concentrated in healthcare IT, managed care, and hospital operations, and opportunities at every level from entry-level analyst through senior and lead positions. The busiest hiring markets are Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville, where large employers like HCA Healthcare, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, and BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee maintain a significant clinical analyst presence. The most sought-after specialties in the state include EHR implementation, quality and outcomes analysis, and clinical data management. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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Passionate, driven people dedicated to making a difference in healthcare.
SpecialtyCare continues to grow and we’d like you to grow with us. We are the most experienced provider of outsourced clinical services in the industry, and we are always interested in building our team by hiring and training smart, dedicated people who share our values and our commitment to excellence.
Focused on Excellence
At SpecialtyCare, everyone makes a difference in the delivery of healthcare. Each of us, no matter the role, is important to the success of our company, the success of our customers, and the health of our patients. Exceptional care and positive patient outcomes require team members passionately dedicated to collaborating and driving excellence at every turn–from clinicians in the operating room to administrative people providing support behind the scenes. Highly successful companies need top talent in every position. And, with our outstanding work environment and our focus on people as one of our critical success factors, we are very committed to you, your career, and your success.
This position serves as the primary liaison between clinical operations, frontline care teams, and Information Technology. This role translates clinical workflows, operational needs, regulatory requirements, data needs, and user feedback into technology and process solutions that improve patient care, clinical quality, clinician experience, operational efficiency, and data integrity. Partners with clinicians, clinical leaders, operations teams, project managers, developers, vendors, and analytics teams to assess current-state workflows, define requirements, support solution design and testing, and facilitate successful implementation and adoption of clinical systems and digital capabilities.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Clinical Workflow Analysis and Requirements Management
- Partner with clinicians, clinical leaders, and operational stakeholders to identify and document clinical and business needs.
- Analyze and document current-state clinical workflows, including handoffs, documentation, scheduling, communication, and supporting processes.
- Facilitate discovery sessions and translate findings into functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, workflow diagrams, and use cases.
- Identify workflow variation, inefficiencies, patient-safety risks, data-quality issues, and opportunities for standardization or automation.
- Maintain requirements traceability and confirm requirements are clinically appropriate, feasible, understood, and approved by accountable stakeholders.
Clinical Solution Design and Process Improvement
- Evaluate clinical and operational processes and recommend technology-enabled improvements that promote safe, efficient, standardized care while reducing unnecessary work and disruption.
- Partner with solution architects, developers, vendors, and clinical subject-matter experts to design workflows and system capabilities aligned with clinical practice and organizational standards.
- Assess the clinical, operational, regulatory, data, and downstream impacts of proposed solutions and process changes.
- Support workflow redesign, clinical content and configuration decisions, integration planning, and change management.
Project Delivery and Governance
- Collaborate with project, product, development, quality assurance, analytics, integration, and vendor teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Support prioritization by clarifying clinical value, urgency, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes.
- Participate in design, configuration, and governance reviews to confirm alignment with approved clinical and operational requirements.
- Manage requirement changes and document decisions, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and unresolved issues in support of Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid governance processes.
Clinical Testing, Implementation, and Adoption
- Develop clinically relevant test scenarios, scripts, expected results, and acceptance criteria based on real-world workflows and patient-care use cases.
- Coordinate system, integration, workflow, and user acceptance testing with clinicians and clinical operations teams.
- Validate that solutions meet approved requirements, usability expectations, quality standards, and patient-safety considerations.
- Support readiness, training, communications, deployment, go-live, and stabilization; monitor adoption, performance, defects, and unintended consequences and recommend corrective actions.
Clinical Stakeholder Partnership and Communication
- Serve as a trusted liaison and build effective relationships among clinical, operational, quality, compliance, patient safety, analytics, and IT stakeholders.
- Communicate requirements, decisions, status, risks, dependencies, and workflow impacts for clinical, operational, technical, and executive audiences.
- Facilitate issue resolution and escalate decisions when clinical safety, compliance, scope, schedule, or expected benefits may be affected.
Clinical Data, Analytics, and Reporting
- Define clinical, operational, quality, dashboard, KPI, data-definition, and reporting requirements with analytics and data teams.
- Assess source data, workflow capture, data lineage, validation needs, and data-quality issues that may affect decision-making or patient care.
- Use qualitative and quantitative information to identify trends, measure outcomes, and prioritize improvements.
- Live the SpecialtyCare Values – Integrity, Teamwork, Care & Improvement.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
.Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, allied health, health informatics, healthcare administration, information systems, business administration, or a related field.
- Clinical education background or active or prior professional healthcare credential preferred.
- Relevant certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, CPHIMS, CAHIMS, or an Agile certification preferred.
Experience:
- Five (5) years of experience in clinical operations, clinical systems, healthcare business analysis, systems analysis, or a related role.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting clinical workflows and translating them into technology or process requirements.
- Experience gathering, documenting, validating, and managing requirements across the solution-delivery lifecycle.
- Experience with electronic health records, clinical documentation, scheduling, patient monitoring, perioperative, revenue cycle, or other healthcare platforms preferred.
- Experience implementing or optimizing clinical systems, integrations, workflow automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, or other digital health capabilities preferred.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience is acceptable.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Working knowledge of healthcare operations, patient privacy, regulatory compliance, clinical quality, and patient-safety considerations.
- Proven ability to partner directly with clinicians, clinical leaders, operational teams, and technical teams.
- Strong analytical, process-mapping, problem-solving, facilitation, organizational, and documentation skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain clinical needs to technical audiences and technology impacts to clinical audiences.
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability and data standards, including HL7 and FHIR preferred.
- Knowledge of Agile or Scrum methods and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project preferred.
- Familiarity with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable reporting and analytics tools preferred.
Passionate, driven people dedicated to making a difference in healthcare.
SpecialtyCare continues to grow and we’d like you to grow with us. We are the most experienced provider of outsourced clinical services in the industry, and we are always interested in building our team by hiring and training smart, dedicated people who share our values and our commitment to excellence.
Focused on Excellence
At SpecialtyCare, everyone makes a difference in the delivery of healthcare. Each of us, no matter the role, is important to the success of our company, the success of our customers, and the health of our patients. Exceptional care and positive patient outcomes require team members passionately dedicated to collaborating and driving excellence at every turn–from clinicians in the operating room to administrative people providing support behind the scenes. Highly successful companies need top talent in every position. And, with our outstanding work environment and our focus on people as one of our critical success factors, we are very committed to you, your career, and your success.
This position serves as the primary liaison between clinical operations, frontline care teams, and Information Technology. This role translates clinical workflows, operational needs, regulatory requirements, data needs, and user feedback into technology and process solutions that improve patient care, clinical quality, clinician experience, operational efficiency, and data integrity. Partners with clinicians, clinical leaders, operations teams, project managers, developers, vendors, and analytics teams to assess current-state workflows, define requirements, support solution design and testing, and facilitate successful implementation and adoption of clinical systems and digital capabilities.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
Clinical Workflow Analysis and Requirements Management
- Partner with clinicians, clinical leaders, and operational stakeholders to identify and document clinical and business needs.
- Analyze and document current-state clinical workflows, including handoffs, documentation, scheduling, communication, and supporting processes.
- Facilitate discovery sessions and translate findings into functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process maps, workflow diagrams, and use cases.
- Identify workflow variation, inefficiencies, patient-safety risks, data-quality issues, and opportunities for standardization or automation.
- Maintain requirements traceability and confirm requirements are clinically appropriate, feasible, understood, and approved by accountable stakeholders.
Clinical Solution Design and Process Improvement
- Evaluate clinical and operational processes and recommend technology-enabled improvements that promote safe, efficient, standardized care while reducing unnecessary work and disruption.
- Partner with solution architects, developers, vendors, and clinical subject-matter experts to design workflows and system capabilities aligned with clinical practice and organizational standards.
- Assess the clinical, operational, regulatory, data, and downstream impacts of proposed solutions and process changes.
- Support workflow redesign, clinical content and configuration decisions, integration planning, and change management.
Project Delivery and Governance
- Collaborate with project, product, development, quality assurance, analytics, integration, and vendor teams throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Support prioritization by clarifying clinical value, urgency, dependencies, risks, and expected outcomes.
- Participate in design, configuration, and governance reviews to confirm alignment with approved clinical and operational requirements.
- Manage requirement changes and document decisions, assumptions, risks, dependencies, and unresolved issues in support of Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid governance processes.
Clinical Testing, Implementation, and Adoption
- Develop clinically relevant test scenarios, scripts, expected results, and acceptance criteria based on real-world workflows and patient-care use cases.
- Coordinate system, integration, workflow, and user acceptance testing with clinicians and clinical operations teams.
- Validate that solutions meet approved requirements, usability expectations, quality standards, and patient-safety considerations.
- Support readiness, training, communications, deployment, go-live, and stabilization; monitor adoption, performance, defects, and unintended consequences and recommend corrective actions.
Clinical Stakeholder Partnership and Communication
- Serve as a trusted liaison and build effective relationships among clinical, operational, quality, compliance, patient safety, analytics, and IT stakeholders.
- Communicate requirements, decisions, status, risks, dependencies, and workflow impacts for clinical, operational, technical, and executive audiences.
- Facilitate issue resolution and escalate decisions when clinical safety, compliance, scope, schedule, or expected benefits may be affected.
Clinical Data, Analytics, and Reporting
- Define clinical, operational, quality, dashboard, KPI, data-definition, and reporting requirements with analytics and data teams.
- Assess source data, workflow capture, data lineage, validation needs, and data-quality issues that may affect decision-making or patient care.
- Use qualitative and quantitative information to identify trends, measure outcomes, and prioritize improvements.
- Live the SpecialtyCare Values – Integrity, Teamwork, Care & Improvement.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
.Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in nursing, allied health, health informatics, healthcare administration, information systems, business administration, or a related field.
- Clinical education background or active or prior professional healthcare credential preferred.
- Relevant certification such as CBAP, PMI-PBA, CPHIMS, CAHIMS, or an Agile certification preferred.
Experience:
- Five (5) years of experience in clinical operations, clinical systems, healthcare business analysis, systems analysis, or a related role.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting clinical workflows and translating them into technology or process requirements.
- Experience gathering, documenting, validating, and managing requirements across the solution-delivery lifecycle.
- Experience with electronic health records, clinical documentation, scheduling, patient monitoring, perioperative, revenue cycle, or other healthcare platforms preferred.
- Experience implementing or optimizing clinical systems, integrations, workflow automation, analytics, artificial intelligence, or other digital health capabilities preferred.
- Equivalent combination of education and experience is acceptable.
Knowledge and Skills:
- Working knowledge of healthcare operations, patient privacy, regulatory compliance, clinical quality, and patient-safety considerations.
- Proven ability to partner directly with clinicians, clinical leaders, operational teams, and technical teams.
- Strong analytical, process-mapping, problem-solving, facilitation, organizational, and documentation skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain clinical needs to technical audiences and technology impacts to clinical audiences.
- Familiarity with healthcare interoperability and data standards, including HL7 and FHIR preferred.
- Knowledge of Agile or Scrum methods and tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, Smartsheet, or Microsoft Project preferred.
- Familiarity with SQL, Power BI, Tableau, or comparable reporting and analytics tools preferred.
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What Tennessee Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in clinical analyst jobs across Tennessee.
- Bachelor's degree in health informatics, clinical science, nursing, or a related field
- Proficiency in electronic health record platforms such as Epic or Cerner
- Two or more years of experience in a clinical or healthcare operations setting
- Strong analytical skills with experience in SQL, Excel, or healthcare data tools
- Knowledge of clinical workflows, ICD-10 coding, or quality reporting standards
- Relevant certification such as RHIA, CPHIMS, or an EHR vendor credential preferred
Clinical Analyst Jobs in Tennessee: Frequently Asked Questions
How do you become a clinical analyst in Tennessee?
Most clinical analyst roles in Tennessee require at least a bachelor's degree in health informatics, clinical science, nursing, or a related healthcare field. While there is no single state-issued license for the role, many Tennessee employers expect candidates to hold or pursue credentials such as the CPHIMS through HIMSS or an Epic or Cerner certification. Graduates from Tennessee health informatics programs at institutions like Vanderbilt or Tennessee Tech are well-positioned for entry-level analyst openings.
Which companies hire clinical analysts in Tennessee?
Employers hiring clinical analysts in Tennessee right now include Baptist Memorial Health Care, Ballad Health, and Erlanger, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of October 2026. Tennessee's concentration of large integrated health systems and managed care organizations makes it one of the more active states for this role year-round.
Which Tennessee cities have the most clinical analyst jobs?
Memphis, Tennessee, and Brentwood have the most clinical analyst openings in Tennessee. Nashville dominates because it is home to major health system headquarters and a dense managed care sector, while Memphis draws demand from regional hospital networks and Memphis-based payers, and Knoxville reflects growing activity from University of Tennessee Health Science Center affiliates and regional systems expanding their analytics teams.
Are there remote clinical analyst jobs in Tennessee?
Yes, and more than most healthcare roles, since clinical analysts work primarily with data systems and EHR platforms rather than at the bedside. About 100% of clinical analyst openings tied to Tennessee are remote or hybrid as of October 2026, reflecting how well the analytical work translates to distributed teams. The functions most commonly offered remotely include data reporting, system configuration support, and quality metrics analysis.
How can I get hired as a clinical analyst in Tennessee with little or no experience?
The most realistic entry path is a health informatics or clinical support role at one of Tennessee's large health systems. HCA Healthcare and Vanderbilt University Medical Center both run structured new-graduate programs and rotational analyst tracks that accept candidates without direct analyst experience. Moving laterally from roles like medical coder, clinical documentation specialist, or EHR trainer is common. Completing an Epic or Cerner training credential before applying gives candidates a concrete edge in Tennessee's competitive entry-level market.
Where can I find and apply to clinical analyst jobs in Tennessee?
You can find and apply to clinical analyst jobs in Tennessee on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from employers hiring in the state right now. Search the listings for roles that match your experience level and specialty, and apply directly to the ones that fit.
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