Job DescriptionClinical Informaticist
Salary Range: $107k to $117k
Summary:The Clinical Informaticist is responsible for communicating, collaborating, and working with leadership, staff, and IT teams to design and continuously improve Cerner build and related IT endeavors. Applicant will work closely with physicians, nurses, hospital administration and IT counterparts on a day-to-day basis. The Clinical Informaticist will report through clinical operations with a primary responsibility to serve as an operations/IT liaison through assessment, scoping, build, implementation, optimization, upgrades, system changes, enhancements, and ongoing system maintenance, which can include system testing, troubleshooting, issue management, training, and go-lives.
Accountabilities:- Work closely with appropriate personnel to establish clinical workflows (Provider, Nursing, Front Office, Ancillary staff,
- Lab, Radiology, Pharmacy, Medication Administration, and other Orders workflows)
- Drives development of future state workflows leveraging clinical and application knowledge
- Educates clinicians on appropriate system use and promotes a positive experience of IT solutions
- Develop and monitor Key Performance Indicators for the assigned facility
- Responsible for the implementation and development of assigned clinical applications, including providing 1st-2nd level of support to end-users.
- Work closely with internal resources and vendor to upgrade applicable software or enhancements, including testing any new functionalities, enhancements, or upgrades.
- Monitors project progress by tracking activities, resolving problems, maintaining progress reports, and escalating problems as needed.
- Analyzes applications and makes recommendations for improvement.
- Analyzes problems and errors produced by applications and end-users, and works closely with end-users and vendor to effectively correct the problems.
- Supports and troubleshoots interfaces for inbound/outbound.
- Determines operational objectives by analyzing functions, gathering information, and evaluating output requirements and formats.
- Provides references for users by writing and maintaining user documentation, such as Job Aids; provides help desk support; and trains users.
- Maintains system protocols by writing and updating procedures.
- Sits on various entities and enterprise-wide IT committees as representative and liaison
- Works with leadership to identify SMEs for project work as needed
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Minimum Education: - Bachelor's Degree in a related field preferred.
Minimum Experience:- Minimum 2 years of experience; experience to include implementation, testing, and ongoing support of clinical application(s).
- Must have at least 1 year of Health Care Information Technology (HCIT) consulting work experience.
- Must have clinical workflow experience.
- Cerner experience is highly desired.
- Experience as a Licensed Clinical worker or Health Care worker is a plus.
- Ambulatory clinical workflow preferred as this role is focused on support of ambulatory providers and clinicians
- Role expectation is weekly onsite rounding/end-user support
- Self-starter
- Seeks opportunities for improvement
- Flexible and adaptable
- Effective communication skills - with leadership, providers, colleagues
