Lead Clinical Informaticist - Design & Optimization

Fairview Health Services • Minneapolis, MN

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About The Position

The Lead Clinical Informaticist (CI) is an expert in the use of health information technology (HIT) applied to clinical care and health care business operations; they use informatics concepts, methods, and tools to promote safe, effective, and optimal use of technologies. The Lead CI is adept in PDSA methods and change management, serving as change agents themselves. They team with informatics, IT, and operational colleagues to assess, plan, and evaluate changes to systems and identify the impact to clinical workflows. The Lead CI uses their deep knowledge of both clinical workflows and health IT to optimize systems and workflows through user-centered design. They solve complex issues paying special attention to usability, and incorporate quality, regulatory, and other high priority organizational initiatives in the design. The Lead CI applies their broad knowledge of healthcare processes to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge, and wisdom in clinical practice and health care operations while remaining focused on the interaction of people, processes and technology for the complete and optimal delivery of information needed for efficient, high quality and safe patient care. They anticipate the need for secondary data use and their impact on system design and understand the intersection of clinical care, technology, and data.

Requirements

• B.S./B.A. in health care field from an accredited program or informatics degree from an accredited institution or combination of relevant experience and education
• 7 years clinical healthcare experience and/or
• 7 years informatics-related experience working in a health system directly with end users
• Proven experience leading committees, projects, and activities
• Must understand clinical care workflows, clinical operations, and have a working knowledge of computer systems and systems life cycle.
• Maintain current Epic certifications per vendor requirements and/or commitment to obtaining Epic certification within 180 Days
• Clinicians with other backgrounds (e.g., PharmD) are encouraged to maintain current certification or licensure as applicable

Nice To Haves

• M.A./M.S. or
• Doctorate level degree in nursing, informatics, or operational leadership
• Epic certifications
• Industry-level certifications such as AACN, HIMSS, Lean, etc.

Responsibilities

• The Lead CI works directly with end users to understand and accurately describe improvement opportunities focused on the design of health IT systems.
• They routinely collaborate across teams; leads team to resolution of an issue.
• They identify and work on integrated solutions outside of their area of primary expertise and readily looks for opportunities across the system to improve outcomes.
• The Lead CI independently completes multiple, complex work assignments in a timely manner, collaborating across departments to design and apply solutions to achieve intended results; defines and evaluates SMART goals based on intended results.
• The CI anticipates the need for and creates complex business requirements and processes/workflows across multiple operational areas.
• They consistently demonstrate a high level of understanding of the target audiences in all communications and evaluates the appropriate customer-service oriented communication methods and messages for diverse audiences.
• The Lead CI also mentors other in (not all inclusive to): designing solutions, problem solving, improving processes, navigating complex customer-service circumstances, data analysis, understanding business workflow and requests.
• All Clinical Informaticists use advanced interpersonal skills and relationship management to foster inter-professional teamwork and support the use of standard concepts and terminologies to support evidence-based practice, clinical research, quality improvement, and education.
• The CI uses the following skills to engage end users, technical resources, and stakeholders: Assessment and consultation; Issues Identification; Outcomes Identification; Planning; Implementation; Evaluation; and Innovation.
• They also evaluate the social, legal, regulatory, and ethical impact of informatics solutions on healthcare workflows and processes.

Benefits

• Fairview offers a generous benefit package including but not limited to medical, dental, vision plans, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, PTO and Sick and Safe Time, tuition reimbursement, retirement, early access to earned wages, and more!
• Please follow this link for additional information: https://www.fairview.org/careers/benefits/noncontract

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees