Clinical Informaticist

Career Paths • Westborough, MA

13d • $70,000 - $90,000

About The Position

As a Clinical Informaticist, you will serve as a clinical lab expert to ensure the safe delivery of eClinicalWorks healthcare technology products. You will help drive the strategy, roadmap, and execution for technology that powers client success and business growth. Your mission will be to play an integral part in the release of high-quality customer-focused Products that set the bar for patient safety. This work will be achieved by working collaboratively with various teams (design, engineering, etc.) to build advanced healthcare technology products. eClinicalWorks moves fast, thinks big, and provides innovative product solutions to meet clients’ needs.

Requirements

• Strategic and Analytical: You can zoom out to define the long-term vision and zoom in to execute tactical details.
• Customer Obsessed: You deeply understand user needs through quantitative and qualitative insights.
• Innovative Mindset: You are able to visualize an EHR/LIS product of the future and embrace the use of AI capabilities to improve customer’s daily workflows and patient safety.
• Communicative: You are able to strongly communicate (written and verbal). You maintain details, clear, and accurate documentation. You are able to translate complexity into simple, actionable narratives when necessary to ensure universal topic understanding.
• Solution Driven: You possess strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and mitigating risks.
• Rigorous Decision-Maker: You make sound and timely decisions that are grounded in your clinical experience/knowledge/skills and customer insight.
• Data-Driven: You rely on real-time data, as needed, to guide priorities and decisions.
• Influential and Collaborative: You drive alignment across technical and clinical teams through clarity, trust, and accountability.
• Execution-Oriented: You take action quickly, are organized in your tasks/responsibilities, and remove blockers to deliver results to meet deadlines.
• Patient Safety Representative: You have a deep commitment to and strive to proactively produce products that focus on patient safety and customer needs.
• Standards Adherence : You follow implemented standards associated with applicable tasks.
• Bachelor’s degree in medical laboratory science, Clinical Laboratory Science, Biology, Chemistry, or related science required; Master’s degree preferred
• MLS, MLT, and/or other lab related credentials
• Currently certified by ASCP or equivalent/similar certification/license preferred
• Minimum of 5+ years of healthcare laboratory experience in an outpatient and/or inpatient setting (reference lab, hospital, clinic) utilizing various LIS platform
• We are looking for candidates who have developed clinical informatics skills through laboratory practice.
• Qualified Candidates will have worked in the following areas:
• Served as a departmental LIS resource, providing technical support and troubleshooting
• Served as a clinical lead, super user, or go-live support during a major LIS implementation
• Built/validated laboratory test content in LIS (test codes, reference ranges, result formats)
• Configured/validated auto-verification rules, critical value alerts, delta checks, or reflex testing logic
• Troubleshot interfaces between LIS and EHR, or between instruments and LIS
• Worked with IT teams to resolve result delivery or order transmission issues
• Participated in quality improvement initiatives involving system workflow modifications
• Conducted/participated in LIS root cause analysis or patient safety investigations involving
• Generated reports or analyzed data from LIS for quality metrics, regulatory compliance, or operational decisions
• Maintained validation documentation or audit trails for regulatory purposes (CAP, CLIA)
• Collaborated with vendors or IT teams as a clinical subject matter expert
• Trained staff on LIS workflows or system functionality
• Exposure to AI-assisted laboratory tools (auto-verification, digital morphology, predictive analytics)
• Participated in evaluation or pilot testing of new laboratory technologies
• Familiarity with patient safety framework/clinical risk documentation

Nice To Haves

• Preferred – Some/all of the following knowledge/skills would be considered a plus in this role
• Familiarity with interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, V2, CDA)
• Healthcare regulatory knowledge (ONC, FDA guidance on clinical software, Joint Commission, CAP, CLIA)
• Project management experience or certification
• Process improvement methodology experience (Lean, Six Sigma)
• Laboratory leadership, supervisory, or administrative experience
• Formal certification or coursework in Clinical Informatics (AMIA, CAHIMS, graduate certificate, or similar)

Responsibilities

• Provide functional support throughout the software development life cycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance products’ safety, quality, and usability
• Review and evaluate requirements for clinical products, modules, and workflows, for completeness and accuracy
• Work closely with R&D teams to engineer prompts for Clinical AI (Artificial Intelligence) products and functionalities
• Perform and document validations on the output generated by the Clinical AI products and functionalities
• Create and maintain documentation related to clinical risk processes, including Hazard Logs and safety case reports
• Collaborate with internal teams to address patient safety issues by recommending corrective and preventive actions
• Develop and maintain clinical content for various medical specialties within the EHR product suite
• Work with implementation and data migration teams to engage with customers and assist with onboarding/optimizing client workflows and product utilization
• Ensure compliance with regulatory standards
• Foster a culture of safety within the organization
• Periodic travel to the company headquarters is required
• Travel to customer sites, tradeshows, conferences, and events as needed (up to 20% of the time)
• Perform additional duties as assigned

Benefits

• eClinicalWorks offers a rich suite of benefits which include the following: eighteen days of Paid Time Off per year which scales based on tenure; nine Paid Holidays and one Floating Holiday; insurance for eligible employees which includes medical, dental, vision, basic life, short term disability, long term disability, business travel accident, and accidental death and dismemberment.
• As well, we offer a 401(k) plan with a Company safe harbor contribution; Flexible Spending Account for Health Care and Dependent Care for eligible employees; limited personal leave; additional voluntary benefits, including additional insurance (hospital indemnity, critical illness, accident, supplemental life, short term disability buy up, pet), genetic testing, legal plan, and supplemental accidental death and dismemberment; and an annual discretionary bonus for eligible employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level