Clinical Informaticist (Perioperative & Anesthesia)

Clarity Partners LLC • Chicago, IL

2d • $120,000 - $140,000

About The Position

Clarity Partners is seeking a Clinical Informaticist to serve as the clinical informatics liaison between HIS and clinical operations for an Epic implementation, focused on perioperative and anesthesia workflows. The role supports a large-scale public-sector client project by facilitating departmental participation in Epic governance and supporting workflow design, validation, and go-live readiness.

The position involves working with clinicians, operational leaders, application analysts, and technical teams to assess and improve clinical workflows, identify safety and readiness concerns, and document decisions. The Clinical Informaticist may travel to multiple facilities and work varied shifts as needed for go-lives and conversions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or a related clinical discipline for the Perioperative/Anesthesia track.
• At least 5 years of clinical practice experience, preferably in a large hospital or integrated health system and in perioperative, surgical, procedural, anesthesia, or PACU settings.
• Experience facilitating multidisciplinary workflow discussions involving physicians, anesthesia providers, pharmacists, nurses, operational leaders, application analysts, and technical teams.
• Strong skills in workflow analysis, clinical process redesign, issue identification, and implementation readiness, with a working understanding of governance decision rights and escalation pathways.
• Sound clinical judgment to identify patient-safety, medication-safety, and regulatory risks in proposed workflows and escalate them appropriately.
• Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex clinical, workflow, and technology issues for frontline clinicians, application teams, and leadership.
• Proficiency with EMR systems and the Microsoft Office Suite.
• Ability to travel to multiple facilities and work varied shifts as needed to support go-lives and conversions.
• Ability to handle confidential patient information in accordance with hospital safety and compliance standards.

Nice To Haves

• Advanced degree in Clinical Informatics, Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Informatics, or a related field.
• Clinical informatics or healthcare technology implementation experience, including EHR workflow design, clinical transformation, or optimization.
• Recent, hands-on Epic implementation experience, including workflow previews, future-state validation, testing, readiness, go-live, and stabilization.
• Clinical background in Epic OpTime, Epic Anesthesia, or related perioperative functionality, with a strong understanding of perioperative workflows, surgical documentation, anesthesia workflows, patient safety, and multidisciplinary care delivery.
• Epic certification or accreditation in a relevant Willow, OpTime, or Anesthesia application area.

Responsibilities

• Support design, validation, testing, implementation, and optimization of workflows within the assigned clinical domain.
• Facilitate Epic workflow previews and future-state validation sessions.
• Ensure appropriate departmental and frontline representation throughout the implementation.
• Identify workflow, safety, readiness, and cross-functional impacts within the assigned domain.
• Document outcomes and required decisions arising from workflow and governance sessions.

What This Job Offers

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