Clinical Informatics Specialist - IMIT - Full-Time

Brockville General Hospital; Brockville; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare facility in Ontario is looking for a Clinical Informatics Specialist to facilitate the implementation and optimization of clinical informatics initiatives. Candidates should have post-secondary education in a relevant field and at least three years of experience in health informatics. This full-time role focuses on supporting Electronic Health Record adoption and developing training plans for stakeholders. Strong knowledge of workflow analysis and change management is essential.

Qualifications

• Three years of progressive clinical and/or health informatics experience.
• Experience in implementing a major clinical application or large project.
• Familiarity with change management methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate design, implementation, optimization of clinical informatics initiatives.
• Support implementation of the Electronic Health Record by defining requirements.
• Act as a key change agent for EHR integration into clinical practice.

Skills

Workflow and process analysis

Project communication

Change management

Electronic Health Record knowledge

Training development

Education

Post-secondary education in clinical, health science, or health informatics

Registered member of a regulated health professional college

Tools

Cerner

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Clinical Informatics Specialist - IMIT - Full-Time

Position: Clinical Informatics Specialist

Status: Full-Time

Department: IMIT (Information Management, Information and Technology)

Union Association: Non-Union

Hours: Monday-Friday Days (Subject to change based on operational needs)

POSITION SUMMARY:

As a subject expert with a focus on the administrative and/or advanced clinical modules, the incumbent facilitates the design, implementation, optimization and adoption of clinical informatics initiatives by working collaboratively with stakeholders, technical experts and/or vendors as required. Using critical and creative thinking the Clinical Informatics Analyst analyzes, prioritizes and translates user needs and requests related to the Electronic Health Record (EHR).

All duties are carried out in a manner consistent with BGH’s vision, mission and values, to meet the strategic and operational goals of the organization.

Education & Experience

• Post-secondary education in clinical, health science, information technology and or health informatics. OR
• Registered member of a regulated health professional college with health informatics experience.
• Three (3) years of progressive clinical and/or health informatics experience, preferably including implementing a major clinical application or large project, redesigning clinical processes and/or business processes to improve patient care and stakeholder workflow and applying change management and project management methodologies in a project setting or while redesigning an existing clinical or business process.
• Cerner experience considered an asset

Skills and Abilities:

• Support the implementation of the Electronic Health Record by defining customer requirements, workflow and process analysis, project communications, unit and integrated design testing, implementation and go-live support.
• Provide leadership and subject-matter expertise to working groups responsible for clinical and/or business process workflow re-design and configures the outcomes within the Electronic Health Record solution in order to support and enhance patient care and processes. Champions the use of evidence-based best practices and outcome measurement in the Electronic Health Record.
• Develops training plans, training materials in a variety of mediums and other electronic health record-related supporting documentation; understands and applies the principles of adult education while providing training to stakeholders.
• Acts as a key change agent and Electronic Health Record champion in order to facilitate implementation and adoption of new processes and/or clinical standards as well as continuous improvement and optimization; collaboratively works with organizational stakeholders and services to operationalize and sustain the effective integration of the electronic health record into clinical practice and administrative/business processes; acts as an advocate for the use of technology and health information to improve clinical processes and the seamless integration of technology into the day-to-day work of front line clinicians.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge of the health informatics industry, trends and health care standards; develops awareness, commitment and acceptance of emerging and innovative technologies and systems that support excellence in the delivery of care. Focuses on
• Develops, implements and monitors standards for service and performance; evaluates and effects changes as needed to improve services, simplifies workflow ensuring that quality, clinical and regulatory standards are met; uses project management, process and quality improvement and change management methodologies in all aspects of work; triages and manages issues effectively using a collaborative, customer service focused approach to supporting stakeholders and resolving issues.