Published: July 15, 2024 - The Clinical Informaticist leads workflow optimization, collaborating closely with clinic and Health IT teams to enhance efficiency and patient outcomes. This role involves conducting technical reviews and testing optimization requests, providing recommendations, and assessing workflow impacts to support organizational improvements. Additionally, the Clinical Informaticist is adept at transforming clinical evidence into practical applications and managing multiple projects across diverse time zones.
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1. Clinical Informaticist, Health Solutions, Miami, FL
Job Summary:
- Develop best practice workflows, templates and order sets, and drive adoption through the enterprise.
- Partner with clinical and departmental leadership to identify needs, prioritize requests and build alignment.
- Lead Clinical Content Committee agendas, goal setting, coordinate workgroups and execution on Clinical Content Changes for the enterprise.
- Support the identification and/or development of new approaches and technologies to achieve clinical goals.
- Develop streamlined system workflows for end users and participate in staff meetings.
- Provide guidance to management on implementing new technologies to improve the organization's current workflow.
- Participate on clinically focused committees and provide recommendations for planning, development and implementation of new processes within the clinical applications.
- Coordinate intake and follow-up of requests for enhancement and changes from users or other system stakeholders.
- Participate in revisions, testing, and integration of changes in components of the EHR.
- Provide proactive user support of the EHR including, but not limited to, training and education.
Skills on Resume:
- Workflow Development (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Partnership (Soft Skills)
- Committee Leadership (Soft Skills)
- Innovation Support (Hard Skills)
- System Streamlining (Hard Skills)
- Technology Guidance (Hard Skills)
- Process Recommendations (Soft Skills)
- User Support (Soft Skills)
2. Clinical Informaticist, Regional Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Job Summary:
- Serve as a clinical intermediary between application engineers, technical engineers, and clinicians.
- Acts as a liaison between clinical, administrative, and IT departments to foster communication, efficiency, cost containment, and best practice modalities.
- Brings an overall clinical perspective to IT applications in use or for future use.
- Participates in the planning, design, development, implementation, and education of clinical applications.
- Reviews and recommends process and protocols used in all IT applications to enhance communication and patient safety.
- Provides coordination and support for clinical computerization within the facility.
- Serves as a consultant/liaison for computer projects that involve clinical areas and Information Management.
- Provides necessary liaison and interface activities for implementation and ongoing system operations.
- Serves as a trainer for the implementation, integration and ongoing evolution of clinical information systems.
- Assists with coordinating all aspects of EMR & CPOE for the facility.
Skills on Resume:
- Clinical Mediation (Soft Skills)
- Interdepartmental Liaison (Soft Skills)
- IT Application Insight (Hard Skills)
- Application Development (Hard Skills)
- Process Optimization (Hard Skills)
- Clinical Support Coordination (Soft Skills)
- Project Consultation (Soft Skills)
- System Training (Hard Skills)
3. Clinical Informaticist, City Hospital, Atlanta, GA
Job Summary:
- Work closely with clinical leaders across multiple teams to ensure data accuracy
- Ensure data accuracy and integrity through defined validation methodologies
- Report and track defects, assist developers in defect resolution
- Recommend new processes that will assist in the automation of the Clinical Data QA process
- Act as a hub between Product, Implementations, and Clinical teams to ensure a successful client launch through excellent communication across departments
- Monitor data feed & accuracy tools on clients in the implementation phase daily
- Create & maintain documentation around data component standards to serve as a source of truth for the organization
- Use data standards to design new methods of monitoring and implement with the help of the Development and Data Science teams
- Maintain a detailed understanding and working knowledge of the current EHR, its functions and its relationship to other information systems within the organization.
- Assist with annual HEDIS and other quality measure updates and maintaining clinical decision support
Skills on Resume:
- Data Validation (Hard Skills)
- Defect Tracking (Hard Skills)
- Process Automation (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Departmental Communication (Soft Skills)
- Monitoring Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Documentation Management (Hard Skills)
- Data Standardization (Hard Skills)
- Quality Support (Hard Skills)
4. Clinical Informaticist, Community Health Systems, Phoenix, AZ
Job Summary:
- Serves as a liaison between Information Technology IT, the physician community, the clinical community for the design, build, testing, training, implementation, and ongoing optimization of clinically led IT strategies
- Coordinates clinical activities for the clinically led IT strategies, including but not limited to OneCare, applying knowledge and understanding of clinical process, documentation, nomenclatures/languages.
- Provides ongoing support for HIT optimization, including, but not limited to, assisting with deployment of additional system features
- Coordinating and/or participating in the systems analysis, planning, developing and testing activities
- Participates in regional team activities, including knowledge sharing among peers.
- Supports other markets as determined by clinical leadership.
- Participates in National/Regional Informatics workgroups
- Meaningful Use / MIPS (CMS program(s)) - produce needed reports or data including data validation where applicable
- Provides reports to Provider supervisors for Quality Incentive programs
- Provides subject matter expertise and other support to all users of the HIT systems.
Skills on Resume:
- IT Liaison (Soft Skills)
- Clinical Coordination (Soft Skills)
- HIT Support (Hard Skills)
- Systems Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Knowledge Sharing (Soft Skills)
- Regional Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Data Reporting (Hard Skills)
- Expert Consultation (Soft Skills)
5. Clinical Informaticist, General Healthcare, Seattle, WA
Job Summary:
- Through the regional change request process, escalates change requests.
- Actively advocates for ongoing system optimization.
- Collaborates with IT to ensure effective communication of upgrades and system downtime for each market.
- Primary point of contact for physicians and other providers related to HIT clinical issues.
- Understands current patient safety goals, and other regulatory requirements, including, but not limited to, meaningful use, ICD 10, evidence based practice, SafetyFirst
- Ensures that these factors are considered and integrated into HIT design, implementation, and optimization at a market level.
- Maintains current knowledge of clinical informatics through regular review of the literature, participation in professional organizations, etc
- Identifies trends, best practices and regulatory requirements impacting matters within assigned scope of responsibility
- Researches nature/scope of impact on existing activities and takes appropriate action.
- Establishes and maintains organizational clinical standard content within the electronic medical record systems.
Skills on Resume:
- Change Management (Hard Skills)
- System Advocacy (Soft Skills)
- IT Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Clinical Informatics (Hard Skills)
- Trend Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Content Standardization (Hard Skills)
6. Clinical Informaticist, Metropolitan Clinic, Chicago, IL
Job Summary:
- Work with clinical technology advisors and charting teams on clinical information management
- Support cutting edge, FHIR-first clinical data platform by pairing with product development teams to map existing technical workflows and data models to FHIR resources and services
- Work closely with the Interoperability team on data normalization and reconciliation strategies
- Shoring up and optimizing clinical codeset management and mapping strategies, including translation and usability for easier front-end use
- Support Data Science and Quality Improvement teams in an advisory role for population health programming and outcomes research
- Work with Machine Learning team to advise and implement industry-leading data tooling
- Maintain cross-functional data requirements and awareness
- Provide support for any hospital or clinic surveys -including but not limited to - at the elbow support for state surveyor staff
- Provide support and/or intermediator with coding and providers
- User Acceptance Testing point person for EMR's
Skills on Resume:
- Clinical Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- FHIR Implementation (Hard Skills)
- Data Reconciliation (Hard Skills)
- Codeset Management (Hard Skills)
- Advisory Role (Soft Skills)
- Machine Learning Support (Hard Skills)
- Cross-Functional Coordination (Soft Skills)
- User Acceptance Testing (Hard Skills)
7. Clinical Informaticist - Information Systems, Bay Area Medical, San Francisco, CA
Job Summary:
- Participate in the design, planning, development, validation, testing, training, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of assigned clinical information systems across the organization to support patients and health care professionals.
- Plan and communicate upgrades/updates/enhancements/new features & functions with Team, Managers and End Users.
- Responsible for monitoring, maintaining, reviewing, and training Meaningful Use/MIPS/MACRA requirements for all hospital and clinic areas
- Maintain compliance and adequate reporting to all regulatory agencies
- Problem solve application and workflow issues and works through barriers to achieve results by collaborating effectively with users, vendors and Information Technology team.
- Monitor applications use, system performance, hardware and software reliability.
- Follow project management principles and practices including project planning, organization, scheduling, allocation and management of resources, budgeting and reporting.
- Maintain in-depth knowledge of clinical applications utilized
- Support and follow the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) model and demonstrates knowledge of each system SDLC stage.
- Use ITIL (information Technology Infrastructure Library) framework to deliver standard processes and procedures.
- Establish and maintain subject matter expertise in information systems for departments.
- Maintain current knowledge of healthcare & nursing practices, regulatory standards, management and healthcare advances and trends, and the legal implications of the clinical information system.
Skills on Resume:
- System Design (Hard Skills)
- Upgrade Planning (Hard Skills)
- Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)
- Problem Solving (Soft Skills)
- Project Management (Hard Skills)
- ITIL Framework (Hard Skills)
- Subject Matter Expertise (Hard Skills)
- Industry Knowledge (Soft Skills)
8. Clinical Informaticist, Coastal Healthcare, Boston, MA
Job Summary:
- Analyze and interpret patient, nursing, or information systems data to assess the need for clinical information systems to support Healthcare professionals and improve nursing services.
- Assist in the development of standards for the clinical information system
- Translate nursing practice information between nurses and systems engineers, analysts, or designers using object-oriented models or other techniques.
- Coordinate and lead planning and delivery of education for all staff regarding system changes or upgrades
- Provide initial and ongoing education to ensure proper utilization of clinical information systems.
- Participate in Corporate IT projects.
- Assess facility and/or end users for the application or implementation readiness and develop plans on how to ensure appropriate readiness levels.
- Troubleshoot computerized applications or documentation and access issues, repair as appropriate, or refer to IS for assistance.
- Assist in the development, installation, and implementation of automated documentation systems.
- Provide guidance and support during planned or unplanned downtime with EMR's
Skills on Resume:
- Data Analysis (Hard Skills)
- System Standardization (Hard Skills)
- Information Translation (Hard Skills)
- Educational Leadership (Soft Skills)
- System Training (Soft Skills)
- IT Project Collaboration (Soft Skills)
- Implementation Planning (Hard Skills)
- Technical Troubleshooting (Hard Skills)
9. Clinical Informaticist, Southern Hospital Group, New Orleans, LA
Job Summary:
- Conducts detailed workflow analyses to examine current practices and workflows, and analyzes the impact of informatics solutions on workflows processes.
- Conducts gap analyses and designs future state workflows based on industry leading practices.
- Prioritizes data collection activities based on immediate or anticipated needs of the defined problem.
- Defines and documents detailed specifications and standardized workflows to solve clinical problems based on organizational standards and requirements.
- Documents complex workflow analyses into detailed processes and sub processes using required applications (e.g. Visio) and per the Health Informatics departmental style guide.
- Defines the problem to be solved based on the collection of detailed assessment data and workflow analyses.
- Validates the problem to be solved and proposed solutions with key stakeholders.
- Works with key stakeholders and members of the Health Informatics team to identify and define measureable metrics for monitoring expected improvements and outcomes for defined solutions.
- Modifies workflows and technology solutions based on outcomes monitoring including collection of assessment data.
- Acts as bridge between clinical system end users, Information Services, Quality, and other key stakeholders by translating clinical requirements into technology solutions.
Skills on Resume:
- Workflow Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Gap Analysis (Hard Skills)
- Data Prioritization (Hard Skills)
- Specification Documentation (Hard Skills)
- Process Mapping (Hard Skills)
- Stakeholder Validation (Soft Skills)
- Metrics Definition (Hard Skills)
- Requirements Translation (Soft Skills)