OhioHealth

Clinical Informaticist

OhioHealth$70K — $95K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Associate's Degree in Nursing or healthcare-related field required; Bachelor’s preferred.
  • 2+ years clinical or operational experience in a hospital or major medical center.
  • Experience in clinical/health informatics, EMR education, or Healthcare IT, particularly in clinical system implementation.
  • EHR certification and relevant experience can replace an Associate's degree.
  • Familiarity with Microsoft Office tools and clinical workflow analysis is necessary.

Responsibilities

  • Support clinical informatics by developing tools and workflows to enhance patient care.
  • Collaborate with clinical and operational leadership to optimize informatics use.
  • Engage in interdisciplinary activities for quality and research initiatives.
  • Align technical capabilities with clinical practices for continuous improvement.
  • Gather clinical content and functionality requirements from various specialties.
  • Assist with technology design and workflow plans for effective health information usage.
  • Participate in informatics projects, providing solutions to system problems.

Benefits

  • Opportunities for professional development and continuing education.
  • Collaborative work environment with interdisciplinary teams.
  • Support for obtaining relevant certifications and training.
  • Potential for flexible work arrangements (onsite and virtual support).
Full Job Description

Job Description Summary:

Clinical Informaticists supporting providers, as a part of an interdisciplinary team, serves in a system role across the organization by specializing in patient care processes and clinician workflow, participates in initiatives to promote effective process design, development and implementation of the electronic health record and other technologies. Clinical Informaticists supporting providers collaborate with end users to identify and understand health care information problems and solutions by participating in facility wide and system wide improvement teams.

Responsibilities And Duties:

Performs a range of assignments related to job discipline, receives a moderate level of guidance and direction, uses prescribed guidelines or policies in analyzing situations

Informatics Administration & Facilitation (Onsite and Virtual) - 40%
Provides support to optimize the use of clinical informatics in the organization through development and refinement of tools, workflows, processes, structures, and best practices to enhance patient care
Works closely with clinical leadership, operational leadership, and other key stakeholders to maximize efficient and effective use of clinical and operational informatics as it relates to patient care, patient safety, end user satisfaction, provider and staff productivity and quality outcomes
Participates in clinical informatics activities in support of interdisciplinary practice operations, decision-making, education, quality, and research initiatives
Works to understand and align technical capabilities and clinical practices to help with clinical process redesign and continued improvement
Participates in guiding processes using system capabilities to collect, record, evaluate and share patient information, reduce redundancy, and standardize clinical practices and documentation
Participates in providing feedback for strategies to manage change and encourages change adoption

Clinical Business Analysis - 40%
Works with quality and patient safety andaccreditation/licensuredepartments, information technology staff, and other key stakeholders to clarify needs, review requests, assist with technology design and workflow plans while executing changes, adaptations, and promoting the effective use of health information technology
Gathersclinicalcontent, functionality requirements and health/patient care information needs of various specialty areas
Responsible for direct interaction with providers, clinical operations, ambulatory operations, and Information Technology including assisting with translating requirements that meet customer needs, regulatory compliance and patient safety and privacy

Project Management & Consultation - 20%
Participates in clinical and operational informatics projects that range from medium to large in scope, risk, and impact
Provides support in collaboration with individuals or departments to identify possible solutions, both electronic and non-electronic, to system problems
Supports consultative services to customers and application and development teams as to workflow processes and technological solutions
Responsible for performing a range of assignments related to clinical and operational informatics issues and problems
Provides support in response to user problems and questions regarding functionality, operations, input/output, reporting and general operating procedures
Follows through to ensure final resolution of problems and communicating back to the individual reporting the problem

Other Duties as assigned

As a High Reliability Organization (HRO), responsibilities require focus on safety, quality and efficiency in performing job duties.

The job profile provides an overview of responsibilities and duties and is not intended to be an exhaustive list and is subject to change at any time

Minimum Qualifications:

Associate's Degree (Required)

Additional Job Description:

  • degree in Nursing or other healthcare related field.
  • Field of Study: Nursing, Informatics or other healthcare-related field.
  • Years of Experience: Two (2) years of clinical or operational experience in a hospital or major medical center, or experience with clinical/health informatics, EMR Education or Healthcare IT experience including implementation of clinical systems in the hospital and/or ambulatory setting.
  • Licensed (or eligible for licensure) to practice nursing or other healthcare related field as applicable in the state of Ohio is preferred but not required.
  • Five (5) + years of experience in the aforementioned and relevant EHR certification may be considered in lieu of associate's degree.


SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE

Process improvement basics; use of Microsoft Office applications including Word, PowerPoint, Visio, and Excel; clinical workflow analysis, clinical documentation, knowledge of data literacy concepts.

DESIRED ATTRIBUTES

Certification in clinical, health, or nursing informatics, project management experience, experience with Epic, Fuji, and Hyland OnBase; leadership/management experience, change management, Epic credential/certification, ability to quickly grasp and apply technical skills required for utilization of multiple software applications and ongoing involvement with various project vendors, strong organization and presentation skills, bachelors degree in nursing, clinical or health informatics, or other related healthcare field, two (2) years of experience in clinical informatics.

Work Shift:

Day

Scheduled Weekly Hours :

40

Department

Clinical Informatics

About OhioHealth

OhioHealth is a not-for-profit, faith-based health system that has been serving patients in central Ohio since 1891. It operates 12 hospitals, 200+ ambulatory sites, hospice, home health, medical equipment and other health services spanning a 47-county area.
Learn more about OhioHealth
Size
35,000 employees
Industry
Founded
1891

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