Clinical Informaticist

CommonSpirit Health; Garden City (KS); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

CommonSpirit Health is seeking a Clinical Informaticist to lead planning, implementation, and sustainment of clinical health information technology with a strong clinical understanding. You will collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure HIT strategies meet patient care needs and guide ongoing strategy for system optimization and quality reporting.

Success requires deep clinical process knowledge, HIT expertise, and strong organizational and communication skills across healthcare settings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and active clinical license.
• Minimum 2 years clinical experience.
• Current RN, OT, or PT license required.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, implementation, and sustainment of clinical HIT with clinical understanding.
• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure HIT strategies meet patient care needs and guide system optimization and quality reporting.
• Conduct workflow analyses and communicate technology changes, upgrades, and downtimes to clinical customers.

Skills

Clinical informatics

Healthcare IT

Stakeholder collaboration

Workflow analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Nursing

EPIC Certification

PMP / Project Management

Job description

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Clinical Informaticist, you will lead and support the planning, implementation, and sustainment of clinical health information technology (HIT) with clinical understanding.

Every day you will collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure HIT strategies meet patient care needs, provide input on system impacts, and guide ongoing strategy for system optimization and quality reporting.

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate a deep understanding of clinical processes and HIT, coupled with strong organizational and communication skills across all levels of healthcare interaction.

• Ability to work in a fast-paced complex environment.
• Ensures that workflow and training knowledge delivered is consistent with and accurately reflects current national informatics and adult learning standards.
• Communicates technology changes, upgrades, and downtimes to clinical customers. Conducts workflow analysis to improve efficient, reliable use of the clinical information systems. Scheduled facility rounding as directed Participate in implementation and go-live activities Develops and maintains established standards of work and system design.
• Actively and efficiently engages with key leaders, teams and subject matter experts to collaborate on and influence the design and development of projects, curriculum and workflows, and the integration of technology into patient care processes. Engaged in projects focused on adding enhanced functionality and/or creating end user efficiency that generates a positive return on investment for the organization Promotes highest attainable quality in the full life cycle of Clinical Information Systems. Participates in educational programs, current evidence, projects, meetings and workshops.
• Contributes to all assigned projects from initial kick-off through conclusion of implementation. Collaborates with stakeholders to identify implementation objectives and guiding principles. Informs the scoping of the project to clearly articulate the needs of the request. Supports developing, communicating, and managing implementation timeline and milestones. Engages the appropriate team members and coordinates assigned work. Provides routine and appropriate communication at project status, accomplishments, upcoming activities, and risks. Proactively Identifies and escalates issues as appropriate. Develops mitigation plans when necessary.
• Perform technical review of new optimization requests and upgrade functionality to assess for workflow impact. Make recommendations on proposed optimizations. Collaborate with the System IT team on researching and resolving identified break-fix items.

This hybrid position will provide on-site support at St. Catherine Hospital, St. Catherine Hospital - Dodge City and Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 2 years clinical experience
• Current Registered Nurse, Occupational Therapist or Physical Therapist license

Preferred

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Degree in Nursing, Informatics, HIT, Health Administration, or other related field
• EPIC Certification
• Informatics Nurse
• Project Management Professional

Where You'll Work

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.