Responsibilities The Corporate IS Department is seeking a dynamic and talented Clinical Informaticist II.
The
Clinical Informaticist II acts as the key resource for clinical areas representing specific applications throughout the organization. Acts as a liaison with facilities and other corporate staff for issues that involve Clinical areas and applications that share functionality. Participates and leads in the development, design, build, testing, implementation, support, maintenance and troubleshooting of assigned software applications and systems. Serves as a liaison between customers, Information Services staff and vendors.
Serves as a point of contact for physicians and other clinical staff including, but is not limited to: supporting clinical IT events; transferring knowledge to facility clinical IS staff; leading committees composed of facility clinical and corporate staff; providing documentation, process workflow and other functionality regarding necessary clinical information system sustainability, support, and development.
Key Responsibilities include: - Plans, facilitates, and evaluates improvements to information and communication technologies in collaboration with facility clinical leadership to address inter-professional workflow needs across all care venues.
- Maximizes effectiveness of applications by understanding available functionality, options and possible alternatives for software in production.
- Formulates reports, collects and analyzes data to identify trends that improve organizational performance and clinical outcomes.
- Develops and makes recommendations to modify policies and procedures impacted by information systems.
- Maintains a current knowledge of developments and issues in healthcare, evidence-based practice, healthcare informatics and regulatory.
- Articulates how new technology will impact current processes and procedures for the organization
- Serves as liaison to facility representatives to investigate and resolve customer service issues.
- Provides leadership in development, establishing ownership and maintaining work teams.
- Collaborates to develop efficient workflow and processing for end users to support safe patient centered care and quality standards.
- Communicates and provides rationale for decisions to other UHS corporate and facility staff.
- Identifies educational needs and collaborates with education team to design and implement end user education.
- Provides mechanisms for soliciting ongoing feedback from users and responds and follows-up with concerns in a timely manner.
- Keeps management well informed of activities, needs, problems.
- Develops and maintains communication flows that exceed customer expectations.
- Collaborates to provide knowledge of appropriate clinical design strategies to achieve or solve identified organizational needs.
Qualifications Position Requirements: - Bachelor's degree with 3 years successful experience as a systems user representative or analyst. Experience leading projects and directing the efforts of multiple people is preferred. Experience should include 1 year working in a health care environment in a clinical role.
- Working knowledge of clinical system application design, development, implementation, enhancement, support methods and practices
- Working knowledge of project management methodology, change control, quality and system performance methods and metrics
- Working knowledge of clinical practices and workflows performed in a healthcare setting.
- Ability to work with end users to determine software specifications and process improvement workflows
- Ability to create system documentation, project documents, education materials, reports and presentations
- Language proficiency in English, with excellent written and verbal skills
- Strong analytical and statistical skills and interpretive abilities
- Critical thinking and problem-solving abilities
- Ability to act independently and complete projects from beginning to end with minimal supervision
- Professional demeanor with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with all levels of staff on clinical and information technology matters.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects
- Knowledge of clinical and application processes
Training: Ongoing training required to keep jobs skills current.
Travel Requirements: 5 - 25% domestic US travel (depending on projects).
This opportunity provides the following: - Challenging and rewarding work environment
- Growth and development opportunities within UHS and its subsidiaries
- Competitive Compensation
- Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan
- 401k plan with company match
- Generous Paid Time Off
