Job 180237 - Healthcare Informatics Specialist- (Full-Time) Coquille, OR
Overview
The healthcare informatics specialist will troubleshoot systems whenever problems are encountered and give support to users of the systems throughout the organization. The specialist may be directly involved with employee training in order to familiarize them with systems. For this training, the specialist should determine employee needs and develop lesson plans. The specialist should keep up to date with developments in the field so that the systems can be updated if necessary. The job may also involve establishing networks and their security systems. This position may involve not only working with those in the company, but also working with customers in order to determine frustrations with online systems or ways to improve software.
Responsibilities
- This position is also responsible for reporting and analysis of healthcare information, obtained from a variety of sources, including administrative, clinical, financial, and demographic data. Responsibilities include the development and preparation of data to provide useful information and commentary for internal and external stakeholders
Requirements
- Education and Experience
- Education: Minimum of an Associate’s Degree (AA or AS) in IT, Computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
- Experience: Computer experience necessary. Cerner EMR experience preferred. (2) Two years in clinical health care setting with experience in database analysis. Possess high level of analytical, verbal and written communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with numerous departments and employees.
- Licenses/Certifications: Cerner Certified Trainer a plus.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide expertise across a wide variety of IT areas as applied to public health, including information retrieval technology, decision science, web technology, data mining, expert systems, networking, public health science and education.
- Maintains a broad knowledge of hardware, operating systems, applications, operational analysis, integration and protocols.
- Maintains current knowledge of clinical applications currently in use and their relationship to other organizational information systems.
- Implements and forwards external (CMS, State, OSHA, CDC, etc.) and internal standards, organizational policies, mission and vision.
- Protects patient confidentiality, adheres to HIPAA and other regulations and safeguards clinical systems against unauthorized use.
- Uses quality improvement tools to obtain, assess data, plan, and research, educate and evaluate.
- Assists with the coordination of system upgrades.
- Develops and participates in structured training courses for new systems and upgrades. Collaborates with clinical users utilizing adult education principles.
- Assists with policy and procedure development pertaining to use of clinical information systems. Keeps policies and procedures up to date, utilizing staff feedback.
- Provides and participates in computer training and orientation activities for current and new personnel, students and providers.
- Assists with system management to abstract data to external/internal sources.
- Assures that staff are organized and educated to function in downtime situations and routine situations.
- Provides assistance to clinical departments in identifying, developing, implementing and maintaining efficient, effective clinical information systems.
- Delivers projects according to deadlines.
- Solicits ongoing feedback from users. Responds and follows up with staff/physician concerns in a timely manner.
- Owns and leads projects from identification and design.
- Works closely with others in the IT/IS department for coordination of implementation/training schedule.
Mission
- The Healthcare Informatics Specialist will be expected to uphold the mission statement and values of Coquille Valley Hospital. He/she is expected and encouraged to continue to learn by experiencing procedures by observation, or interacting with other staff and seminars as available.
- Service: A drive to be of service to others.
- Ethics: A clear understanding of right and wrong which guides your actions.
- Responsibility: A need to assume personal accountability for your work.
- Problem solving: An ability to think things through with incomplete data.
- Empathy: An ability to identify the feelings and perspectives of others.
- Team: A need to build feelings of mutual support and respect.
Coquille Valley Hospital provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Coquille Valley Hospital complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Coquille Valley Hospital expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, or veteran status. Improper interference with the ability of Coquille Valley Hospital’s employees to perform their job duties may result in discipline up to and including discharge.