Lead Clinical Informatics - DeKalb Nursing Administration - FT - 1st Shift

Huntsville Hospital Health System•Fort Payne, AL

About The Position

Reporting to the IS Director the clinical informaticist is the hospital liaison for clinical informatics to the Medical Staff, Pharmacy and other Clinical Departments. Provides Physician systems orientation, CPOE execution, on-boarding, training and meaningful use compliance. Provides Clinical Pharmacy work model development with the Pharmacy Director. Assessment of disease state management and development of processes to improve patient care. With the Information Systems Department, develops reporting and data collection to support clinical departments.

Requirements

Associates degree in healthcare
Critical Care work practice, Clinical Information Systems implementation, oversight or programming, Other positions requiring Medical Staff relationships and project development.

Responsibilities

Assists with physician on-boarding. Plans, Develops and provides education opportunities relatedto clinical information systems for the Medical Staff, Physician Extenders, Pharmacy, and otherclinical departments to support patient care, core measures and corporate initiatives.
Assist with “Start-up” training for new physicians in the community upon application andorientation.
Facilitate physician groups to update and maintain Zynx order sets, liaison to corporate andnational evidence-based source recommendations, maintain formulary, reference materials viaphysician intranet links (example: antibiograms).
Responsible for implementation of the hospital Information systems (including CPOE), physicianeducation plan and new physician integration plan
Serves as the primary liaison to the medical staff and administration regarding the provision ofpatient care and the utilization of clinical Information systems / technology. Includes system usecompliance and meaningful use targets.
Develops methods to assess information system efficiencies and workflow processes thatimprove patient care and facilitates individual physician practice.
Develops and recommends improvements in the medication management system (medicationreconciliation, medication utilization, core measures etc.)
Takes a leadership role to address/collaborate with medical staff department heads to improvequality of care.
Assesses high utilization disease states and develops plans to improve clinical outcomes.
Assists Administration and ITDirector with clinical information system recommendations andimplementations.