Clinical Informaticist - Heart Institute/Cupid - IT-Clinical

Rady Children's Hospital • San Diego, CA

130d • $48 - $66

About The Position

This position supports and optimizes our cardiac application suite. The ideal candidate is certified in Epic Cupid and/or Radiant, has experience in Siemens applications such as Sensis; MUSE; CardioDay; Cohesic. A strong knowledge of relational databases, performing SQL queries, and working with 3rd party vendors is critical to success. Rady Children's will consider sponsoring qualified foreign Clinical Informaticists. JOB SUMMARY: The Clinical Informaticist serves as a vital liaison between the Clinical Information Systems department and healthcare professionals. They design and implement system solutions to improve the full spectrum of health care services from scheduling, direct patient care, ancillary services, and revenue cycle. They provide knowledge and experience based support to highly visible, sensitive, and multi-faceted initiatives. They are responsible for the successful turnover of projects and requests to production. The Clinical Informaticist is responsible for assigned duties relating to: application and system installation and implementation; formulating system scope and design objectives through analysis and research. They are responsible for configuring vendor maintained systems or developing and modifying in house systems, and assisting with coordination efforts of users, ISD Staff, and vendors. The Clinical Informaticist performs research and analysis, prepares assigned project deliverables, and detailed specifications from which vendor systems will be programmed/configured, and provides process and workflow analysis. The roles and responsibilities include duties related to project analysis and planning, small scope project management (which may include design, analysis and implementation), along with the daily operational activities associated with the assigned systems, applications and projects. The Clinical Informaticist supports the overall business/project plan by providing deliverables as a team member to meet project/team performance and outcomes relative to established goals/measurements.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree and 3 years of experience OR 5 years of clinical system development, support and maintenance experience in lieu of Bachelor's Degree.
• Demonstrated ability in critical thinking, analysis and problem solving skills.
• Understand fundamentals of project management, SDLC, ITSM, and ITIL process methodologies.
• Understanding of health care patient administration, clinical and business systems.
• Must have installed a minimum of one computer-based hospital system.
• Experience in process and workflow analysis, systems/applications analysis, project lifecycle implementation.
• In-depth experience and training in a minimum of four discreet major projects.
• Implementation and upgrade experience with previous integrated Healthcare Information Systems with emphasis on EMR applications/systems (Epic, Meditech, Cerner, etc.).
• Skills and experience in oral and written communications.
• Ability to present to a broad spectrum of individuals and groups including senior management, physicians and health care professionals.
• Demonstrated ability to perform in a team environment and utilize effective team relationship skills.
• Demonstrated customer service focus, ability to self-motivate, self-direct and balance competing priorities.

Nice To Haves

• 5 years of experience.
• California RN License.
• Respiratory Therapist.
• Demonstrated level of integrity and trust, capable of maintaining confidential information.
• Knowledge in fundamentals of hospital organization, management techniques, Joint Commission, HIPAA and Title 22 requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to research complex regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support and optimize the cardiac application suite.
• Serve as a liaison between the Clinical Information Systems department and healthcare professionals.
• Design and implement system solutions to improve healthcare services.
• Provide support for highly visible, sensitive, and multi-faceted initiatives.
• Ensure successful turnover of projects and requests to production.
• Install and implement applications and systems.
• Formulate system scope and design objectives through analysis and research.
• Configure vendor maintained systems or develop and modify in-house systems.
• Assist with coordination efforts of users, ISD Staff, and vendors.
• Perform research and analysis, prepare project deliverables, and detailed specifications.
• Conduct process and workflow analysis.
• Manage small scope projects including design, analysis, and implementation.
• Handle daily operational activities associated with assigned systems, applications, and projects.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $48.03 to $66.06.
• Regular market reviews to remain competitive with organizations of similar size in the nonprofit, healthcare sector.

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree