Clinical Informaticist, Research Informatics
Montefiore Health System•Plaza, ND
•$160,000 - $200,000
About The Position
The Clinical Informaticist connects clinical and research teams across Montefiore Einstein with the data, tools, and technical expertise needed to improve care, advance discovery, and support operational decision-making. The role helps clinicians and investigators frame data questions, use clinical information systems and data platforms effectively, interpret available data, and translate user needs into practical improvements.
Requirements
- MD, PhD, or master’s degree in a relevant clinical, health, informatics, data, or research discipline.
- At least two years of clinical or research experience working with inpatient and/or outpatient health care data.
- Experience using or implementing clinical information systems.
- Experience working collaboratively with clinicians and researchers.
- Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills; ability to explain complex data concepts to audiences with varied technical backgrounds.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with clinical data analysis, quality improvement, or performance improvement.
- Familiarity with clinical data models, terminology, cohort discovery methods, or common data standards used in health care research.
- Experience supporting clinical research, clinical trials, or data-enabled improvement initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Partner with clinicians, investigators, operational leaders, and information technology teams as a liaison and advocate for users of clinical data and informatics services.
- Clarify clinical, research, and quality questions and translate them into feasible data requests, workflow needs, and technical requirements.
- Guide users in the appropriate use and interpretation of electronic health record data, clinical data repositories or warehouses, cohort discovery tools, and related analytics resources.
- Help researchers identify and use fit-for-purpose data for study feasibility, cohort identification, clinical trials, and other research activities, in coordination with applicable data access and governance processes.
- Work with data, application, and clinical teams to investigate data questions, explain data definitions and limitations, and resolve barriers to effective use.
- Identify and communicate data quality issues; recommend approaches to document provenance, limitations, and data quality considerations that support reproducible analysis.
- Contribute to the design and improvement of data sources, informatics tools, reports, and support services by gathering user needs and translating them into actionable recommendations.
- Promote practices that support appropriate access, privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and responsible use of clinical information.
- Apply knowledge of clinical workflows and health care data to identify opportunities to improve user experience, efficiency, care delivery, and research productivity.
- Provide consultation, education, and clear documentation to help clinical and research users understand available data and tools.
- Participate in institutional, regional, and national research or informatics initiatives; contribute to working groups, presentations, and grant development as appropriate.
- Follow questions through to resolution, communicate status and outcomes to requestors, and recommend durable solutions when recurring issues arise.
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