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Access Innovation Advisor

Make a meaningful impact on how patients access care at Nebraska Medicine! As our Access Innovation Advisor, you’ll lead projects that bring together clinical leaders, clinic managers, providers, and technical teams to reimagine and optimize ambulatory scheduling and patient access. Using data, critical thinking, and collaborative problem-solving, you’ll help develop innovative scheduling workflows that align patient needs with provider preferences and clinic requirements—from designing smarter appointment decision pathways to improving capacity, efficiency, and the overall patient experience. If you thrive on solving complex challenges, guiding teams toward practical solutions, and turning innovative ideas into meaningful improvements, we invite you to be part of shaping the future of patient access.

How This Role Makes a Difference

As our Access Innovation Advisor, you’ll help advance Nebraska Medicine’s strategic focus on patient access, digital innovation, and operational excellence. By improving scheduling workflows and optimizing digital tools such as MyChart, you’ll help patients connect with the right provider more quickly and accurately while ensuring provider capacity is used effectively. Your work will support a growing patient population, improve the patient experience, and drive measurable improvements in access, scheduling accuracy, clinic efficiency, and patient volume.


Details: Access Innovation Advisor

• Candidate must live in Nebraska or Iowa
• This is a hybrid position, must be able to work on campus
• Preferred consideration will be given to applicants with experience within Epic Cadence environment
• Resume REQUIRED for consideration

Why Work at Nebraska Medicine?

• Together. Extraordinary. Join a team that values your skills, delivering exceptional care through collaboration.
• Leading Health Network Work with the region’s top academic health network, partnering with UNMC to transform lives through education, research, and patient care.
• Dignity and Respect: We value all backgrounds and experiences, reflecting the communities we serve.
• Educational Support Enjoy up to $5,000/year in tuition assistance, a 35% discount at Clarkson College, and career advancement opportunities with covered educational costs. Enjoy support for your personal growth within the organization, from those just starting their healthcare careers to those who are years down the path.

Be part of something extraordinary at Nebraska Medicine!

Our Access Innovation Advisor will lead projects and analysis related to patient access optimization within ambulatory clinics. Identify opportunities to improve ambulatory capacity utilization, scheduling optimization, patient volume, onboarding of call center appointment scheduling, and patient, provider and staff satisfaction.

Required Qualifications: Access Innovation Advisor
• Five years experience to include the majority of the following: serve as a technical or operational expert for a group of employees, analyzing data to solve problems, provide guidance to and/or assist staff on non-routine or escalated issues required.
• Bachelor's degree in a business or healthcare related field OR equivalent combination of education/experience required.

Preferred Qualifications: Access Innovation Advisor
• Experience in an ambulatory clinic healthcare environment preferred.

• Project management experience within an academic medical center environment preferred.
• Experience within Epic Cadence environment preferred.
• Master's degree in health information management, health administration, business, or healthcare related field preferred.