Clinical Informatics Specialist I

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center•Seattle, WA

11d

About The Position

The Clinical Informatics Specialist I is responsible for promoting the understanding, integration, and innovation of clinical information technology to improve the clinician and patient experience. This role supports organizational goals and initiatives using the input, analysis, and retrieval of data to improve processes. This role maintains knowledge of clinical practice and a relationship with clinical and IT leadership. This is a full-time, salaried position.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree
1 year of experience in health care IT (or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education)
Demonstrated experience working with teams in the development and support of applications, and in implementing production systems in a healthcare organization
Demonstrated attention to detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
Excellent collaboration and communication skills
Clinical licensure

Nice To Haves

Health IT certification
Familiar with health system processes, business process analysis, and technical support best practices.
Epic certification
Project management experience
Health informatics Degree or Certification
Experience in project management methodology principles with ability to document key supportive deliverables.
Demonstrated experience in training clinical end-users of various levels of technical savvy
Experience collecting user requirements, translating to system feature enhancements, and requesting enhancements
Knowledge oncology patient care services
Knowledge of patient care operations in outpatient or acute care and/or research setting.
Knowledge of TJC, DOH, and other regulatory requirements

Responsibilities

Translate between IT, clinical staff, patients, and leadership collaborating with key stakeholders and advocating for clinicians and patients.
Function as a champion for clinical IT strategy, promoting system usability, quality, regulatory readiness, research, and evidence-based practice.
Develop systems that improve the clinician’s ability to care for patients, clinic workflows, and the patient experience.
Improve processes by systematically analyzing complex problems and present innovative solutions to clinicians and IT leaders.
Collect, analyze, and present data as a story to make concise recommendations to customers for simple and complex problems.
Document workflows that support clinicians, patients, and organizational goals and strategic initiatives.
Participate in the design, testing, implementation, and support of clinical applications.
Investigate and analyze issues, requests, and projects related to clinical applications.
Complete evaluations of user adoption of existing and newly implemented clinical applications.
Provide communications and updates to multiple levels of the organization.