Clinical Informaticist

CommonSpirit Health; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

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

To succeed, you will demonstrate deep knowledge of clinical processes and HIT, with strong organizational and communication skills across all levels of healthcare interaction.

Qualifications

• Minimum clinical experience with HIT foundations.
• Ability to translate clinical needs into system requirements.
• Experience collaborating with diverse healthcare stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, implementation and sustainment of clinical HIT with clinical understanding.
• Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to ensure HIT strategies meet patient care needs.
• Guide system optimization and quality reporting across the organization.
• Conduct workflow analysis to improve efficient, reliable use of clinical information systems.
• Participate in implementation and go-live activities.
• Engage with leaders and subject matter experts to influence project design and workflows.
• Develop and maintain standards of work and system design.

Skills

Clinical Informatics

HIT knowledge

Workflow analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Epic (experience)

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.

  Remains proficient in the use of CommonSpirit Health specific applications that are supported by the Clinical Informatics Department.

  Participates in assigned committees or workgroups to serve as a resource for Informatics.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Other and Minimum 2 years clinical experience, upon hire and
• Registered Nurse: upon hire or
• Occupational Therapist: upon hire or
• Physical Therapist: upon hire or
• Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN / LVN)
• Licensed Clinical Social Worker
• Occupational Therapist Registered, upon hire or
• Certified Respiratory Therapist, upon hire or
• Speech Language Pathologist, upon hire or
• Certified Radiologic Nurse, upon hire or
• Certified Pharmacy Tech, upon hire or
• Registered Dietician, upon hire or
• Certified Phlebotomy Technician, upon hire or
• Clinical Competence in Audiology, upon hire or
• Pharmacist, upon hire

Preferred

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

Where You'll Work

Founded in 1887 Dignity Health - California Hospital Medical Center is a 392-bed acute care nonprofit hospital located in downtown Los Angeles. The hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level II trauma center the Los Angeles Center for Womens Health obstetrics and pediatric services and comprehensive cardiac and surgical services. The hospital shares a legacy of humankindness with Dignity Health one of the nations five largest health care systems. Visit https://www.dignityhealth.org/socal/locations/californiahospital for more information.