Senior Clinical Informaticist -- VH IT Clinical Informatics and Architects -- Northgate-400 Asso

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System•Charleston, WV

52d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Clinical Informaticist collaborates with clinicians, providers, and allied health professionals in analyzing clinical requirements specific to the organization. Prepares appropriate clinical scenarios for testing events. Responsible for current state mapping and future state workflow development, application design and development, content issues resolution, implementation, optimization and end-user support within a highly complex environment. Will direct implementation efforts, drive adoption and optimization of EHR and related business systems. As the primary liaison with the business owners, the Senior Clinical Informaticist must be a self-motivated team player that can work under minimal supervision with strong organizational and analytical skills. Maintain a level of cybersecurity knowledge sufficient to securely accomplish their job duties Demonstrates a basic understanding and adheres to departmental processes for change control

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Related Field Education: Bachelor's degree in information technology or related clinical field.
Experience: 5 - 7 years of related information technology or clinical technology experience.
Cerner Experience Required

Nice To Haves

Preferred minimum of 3 years clinical experience and experience with clinical workflow and process improvement.

Responsibilities

Possess an in-depth understanding of the inpatient clinical care setting and/or healthcare business applications associated workflows.
Leads and participates in implementing large clinical process change initiatives across the clinical setting in ambulatory, outpatient and inpatient departments.
Responsible for performing advanced application system analysis and design to include requirements, specifications, configuration, documentation, testing, and implementation.
Provides application support, troubleshooting, support training needs, unit reporting or departmental analytics activities.
Serves as a primary liaison/resource regarding clinical workflows and technology between solution workgroups, clients and vendors.
Facilitates and leads process change activities across clinical disciplines integrating strong quality improvement principles into the process transformation.
Assists customers in defining metrics needed to measure change and works closely to help sustain needed process change.
Effectively works as part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team to identify solutions to improve efficiency and the delivery of safe patient care.
Serves as a resource for multiple applications/systems
Participates as a clinical workflow resource for new implementations as well as ongoing optimization of existing products and workflows.
Direct implementation efforts, lead adoption, utilization and optimization of assigned systems.
Participates in quality projects and assigned committees to provide expertise and collaboration on using the clinical information system to meet patient-centered goals
Prioritizes and implements updates and changes to the application according to change control policies
Understand build requirements and assist technical analysts as directed
Understand quality, safety and regulatory needs and design workflows to ensure standards are met
Recognizes complex problems that may affect more than the systems of responsibility and effectively coordinates efforts with other department resources to resolve
Develop and maintain an in-depth understanding of workflows to properly develop training curriculum and related materials.
Communicate effectively with project leadership, team members, and customers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
On call as required