Job Description
Job Summary and Responsibilities As our Clinical Informaticist, you will lead and support the planning, implementation, and sustainment of clinical health information technology (HIT) with clinical understanding.
Every day you will collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure HIT strategies meet patient care needs, provide input on system impacts, and guide ongoing strategy for system optimization and quality reporting.
To be successful in this role you will demonstrate a deep understanding of clinical processes and HIT, coupled with strong organizational and communication skills across all levels of healthcare interaction.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced complex environment.
- Ensures that workflow and training knowledge delivered is consistent with and accurately reflects current national informatics and adult learning standards.
- Communicates technology changes, upgrades, and downtimes to clinical customers. Conducts workflow analysis to improve efficient, reliable use of the clinical information systems. Scheduled facility rounding as directed Participate in implementation and go-live activities Develops and maintains established standards of work and system design.
- Actively and efficiently engages with key leaders, teams and subject matter experts to collaborate on and influence the design and development of projects, curriculum and workflows, and the integration of technology into patient care processes. Engaged in projects focused on adding enhanced functionality and/or creating end user efficiency that generates a positive return on investment for the organization Promotes highest attainable quality in the full life cycle of Clinical Information Systems. Participates in educational programs, current evidence, projects, meetings and workshops.
- Contributes to all assigned projects from initial kick-off through conclusion of implementation.
- Collaborates with stakeholders to identify implementation objectives and guiding principles.
- Informs the scoping of the project to clearly articulate the needs of the request.
- Supports developing, communicating, and managing implementation timeline and milestones.
- Engages the appropriate team members and coordinates assigned work.
- Provides routine and appropriate communication at project status, accomplishments, upcoming activities, and risks.
- Proactively Identifies and escalates issues as appropriate. Develops mitigation plans when necessary.
- Perform technical review of new optimization requests and upgrade functionality to assess for workflow impact. Make recommendations on proposed optimizations.
- Collaborate with the System IT team on researching and resolving identified break-fix items.
- Remains proficient in the use of CommonSpirit Health specific applications that are supported by the Clinical Informatics Department.
- Participates in assigned committees or workgroups to serve as a resource for Informatics.
Job Requirements Required - Bachelors Degree, upon hire
- Minimum 2 years clinical experience, upon hire
- Registered Nurse: CA, Occupational Therapist: CA, or Physical Therapist: CA, or Certified Respiratory Therapist, or Certified Radiologic Nurse, or Certified Pharmacy Tech, or Registered Dietician, or Certified Phlebotomy Technician, or Clinical Competence in Audiology, upon hire
Preferred - Computer Science, MIS, Degree in Nursing, Informatics, HIT, Health Administration, or other related field, upon hire
- EPIC Certification, upon hire or
- Informatics Nurse, upon hire or
- Project Management Professional, upon hire
Where You'll Work Dignity Health, one of the nation's largest health care systems, is a 22-state network of more than 9,000 physicians, 63,000 employees, and 400 care centers, including hospitals, urgent and occupational care, imaging and surgery centers, home health, and primary care clinics. Headquartered in San Francisco, Dignity Health is dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality, and affordable patient-centered care with special attention to the poor and underserved. For more information, please visit our website at You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
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