Clinical Informaticist

Driscoll Children's Hospital; Corpus Christi (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Driscoll Children's Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, invites a Clinical Informaticist to lead the integration of clinical information systems, optimize EHR workflows, and support pediatric patient safety. Under CMIO guidance, you will collaborate with physicians, EPIC analysts, and IT to design, test, and deploy technology-enabled solutions that standardize care and improve outcomes.

This role emphasizes data quality, governance, and predictive analytics, including telemedicine support in ICU

Qualifications

• Clinical informatics experience in hospital setting.
• EHR workflow optimization.
• Collaboration with physicians and IT teams.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate and optimize inpatient clinical workflows to improve efficiency and safety.
• Collaborate with physicians, EPIC Application Analysts, and Information Services to translate clinical needs into EHR functionality.
• Participate in authorized physician-builder activities and clinical configuration.
• Support data quality initiatives and clinical governance in reporting and analytics.

Job description

Where compassion meets innovation and technology and our employees are family.

Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Please review the job information below.

Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM; however, scheduling changes may occur based on staffing requirements .

General Purpose of Job :

The Clinical Informaticist serves as a leader responsible for optimizing the integration of clinical information systems, technology, and clinical workflows within the inpatient hospital environment. Working under the direction of the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and the CICU Medical Director, this position serves as a liaison between physicians, clinical departments, hospital leadership, and Information Services to ensure that the electronic health record (EHR) and other clinical technologies support safe, effective, efficient, and evidence-based pediatric care. The Clinical Informaticist provides clinical expertise and oversight in the design, development, implementation, and optimization of inpatient clinical technology functionality, including support for surveillance and monitoring tools, EPIC Application Analysts and physician-builder activities. The position is responsible for evaluating clinical workflows, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and supporting the successful implementation and adoption of new technologies within inpatient clinical operations. The role supports organizational priorities related to patient safety, clinical outcomes, data quality, quality improvement, clinical standardization, operational efficiency, and clinician experience.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities :

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.

• Always maintains utmost level of confidentiality.
• Adheres to hospital policies and procedures
• Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
• Punctuality is an essential function of the job

Clinical Informatics, Workflow Optimization, and EHR Development

Evaluates, designs, standardizes, and optimizes inpatient clinical workflows to improve efficiency, documentation, interdisciplinary coordination, and patient safety.

Collaborates with physicians, clinical stakeholders, EPIC Application Analysts, and Information Services to translate clinical needs into EHR functionality, documentation tools, clinical decision support, and other technology-enabled solutions.

Participates in authorized physician-builder activities, clinical configuration, requirements development, testing, troubleshooting, implementation, and ongoing EHR optimization.

Promotes standardized, evidence-based clinical content while accommodating appropriate specialty-specific workflows and established clinical governance requirements.

Clinical Data Quality, Clinical Registry, and Data Management

Supports the accuracy, completeness, integrity, and usability of clinical data captured in the EHR and associated clinical systems.

Coordinates or participates in clinical data collection, interpretation, validation, reconciliation, and submission for ICU patients to institutional and external databases, including the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium registry, as assigned.

Collaborates with clinical, quality, and analytics teams to improve data definitions, documentation standards, data integration, reporting, and the reliability of clinical measures.

Clinical Technology Innovation and Predictive Analytics

Evaluates, implements, and optimizes clinical technologies, including artificial intelligence, remote monitoring, predictive analytics, mobile applications, and clinical decision support tools.

Provides clinical expertise in defining predictive variables, clinical events, outcomes, and physiologic criteria; supports data quality assessment, literature review, and clinical validation of predictive models.

Collaborates with clinicians, data scientists, analysts, Information Services, and external partners to integrate technology and predictive analytics into clinical workflows.

Evaluates technology effectiveness and predictive model performance, including clinical utility, adoption, alert burden, unintended consequences, and patient safety.

Inpatient Telemedicine, ICU, and Clinical Support

When assigned to ICU coverage, provides real-time virtual support for critically ill CICU patients through review of available video systems, physiologic monitoring, EHR data, imaging, and relevant clinical analytics to s