The Solution Advisor for Barcode Medication Administration (BCMA) serves as the lead clinical informatics expert responsible for designing, configuring, and implementing the closedloop medication administration workflow within a largescale Oracle Health (Cerner Millennium) EHR environment. This senior role champions medication safety across the enterprise, ensuring the BCMA solution reliably enforces the Five Rights of medication administration: right patient, right drug, right dose, right route, and right time.
The Solution Advisor leads the endtoend design of bedside medication administration workflows, including scanning workflows, safety checks, documentation in the electronic Medication Administration Record (eMAR), exception handling, and integration with pharmacy systems. The role requires deep collaboration with nurses, pharmacists, patient safety leaders, and workflow committees to ensure the BCMA solution is both clinically accurate and operationally efficient. The advisor supports testing, golive readiness, attheelbow assistance during deployment, and ongoing optimization activities.
Core Responsibilities
Client & Stakeholder Engagement
Serve as the primary subject matter expert for nursing, pharmacy, and patient safety leaders regarding Oracle Health BCMA functionality and eMAR workflows.
Provide expert guidance on medication safety principles and closedloop medication administration best practices.
Facilitate design sessions, workflow reviews, and stakeholder consensus on medication administration processes.
Solution Design & Workflow Analysis
Lead design and analysis of the complete medication administration workflow across inpatient and specialty care settings.
Define system behavior for exception cases (e.g., emergency overrides, patient refusals, partial doses, nonbarcoded medications).
Collaborate with pharmacy teams to develop and maintain a robust barcoding strategy for unitdose medications and IV admixtures.
Ensure workflow designs align with clinical best practices and Oracle Health functional capabilities.
Implementation & Solution Management
Develop, execute, and refine detailed test scripts that cover all BCMA scenarios and safety checkpoints.
Provide attheelbow support during golive, assisting clinicians with barcode scanning, workflow navigation, and issue resolution.
Assist with nursing role mapping and security profile alignment for medication administration permissions.
Work with technical and operational teams to address workflow defects, enhancement requests, and system modifications.
Required Qualifications
Preferred 5+ years of combined experience in clinical informatics, nursing, pharmacy, or medication administrationrelated implementation.
Direct, handson experience with Oracle Health (Cerner Millennium), including PowerChart, eMAR, and BCMA workflows.
Strong understanding of closedloop medication administration, medication safety principles, and the Five Rights.
Experience functioning as a clinical super user, system implementer, or workflow owner.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with experience training and supporting bedside clinicians.
Experience with clinical licensure (RN, PharmD, etc.) strongly preferred.
Minimum Skills and Qualifications
Bachelors degree and 5+ years of supporting clinical informatics responsible for the closedloop medication administration workflow
3+ years of Oracle Health Millenium and clinical care delivery operation for a software as a service (SaaS) managed EHR solution with direct medication expertise
Program/Project Management
Electronic Medical Records (EMR)
Health Level 7 (HL7)
Must be able to obtain a Position of Trust and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
Experience working with largescale EHR implementations or federated healthcare systems
Familiarity with pharmacy informatics or medication barcoding standards
Knowledge of medication safety frameworks and clinical workflow optimization
Work Environment
Remote/hybrid role based in Arlington, VA
Up to 25 percent travel for workflow sessions, testing, golive, or stakeholder engagement
Limited onsite presence required (20%)