Clinical Informaticist - Informatics, Clinical Informatics

OhioHealth; Columbus (OH); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

OhioHealth is seeking a Senior Consultant – Clinical Informaticist to lead and optimize clinical informatics initiatives across the health system. The role focuses on patient care processes, clinician workflow, and the implementation of electronic medical records and related technologies.

The position collaborates with clinical and operational leaders to define requirements, redesign processes, and govern end-user requests, both onsite and virtually.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in nursing, clinical or health informatics, or related field.
• Three (3) years of clinical/operational hospital experience with evidence of clinical information systems use.
• Experience with clinical systems implementation in hospital/ambulatory settings; licensed or eligible in Ohio.

Responsibilities

• Optimize clinical informatics use through development and refinement of tools, workflows, processes, and best practices to enhance patient care.
• Gather requirements from clinical teams and design workflows that support patient safety and provider productivity.
• Lead and participate in governance, analysis, and project management activities across informatics initiatives.

Skills

Clinical informatics

Workflow optimization

Process redesign

Stakeholder collaboration

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing or health informatics or related field

Tools

MS Project

Visio

Job description

We are more than a health system. We believe wellness and sickness are both part of a lifelong partnership, and that everyone could use an expert guide. We work hard, care deeply and reach further to help people uncover their own power to be healthy. We learn, grow, and achieve more – in our careers and in our communities.

Senior Consultant – Clinical Informaticist serves in an infrastructure role across the organization by specializing in patient care processes and clinician workflow, leads initiatives to promote effective process design, development and implementation of the electronic medical record and other technologies. Senior Consultant – Clinical Informaticist collaborates with end users to help define health care information problems and solutions by participating in facility wide and system wide improvement teams. Functions as lead for ushering end user requests through the governance process.

Informatics Administration & Facilitation (Onsite and Virtual) - 40%

• Provides support to optimize the use of clinical informatics in the organization through development and refinement of tools, workflows, processes, structures and best practices to enhance patient care.
• Works closely with clinical leadership, operational leadership and other key stakeholders to maximize efficient and effective use of clinical and operational informatics as it relates to patient care, patient safety, end user satisfaction, provider and staff productivity, and quality outcomes.
• Participates in clinical informatics activities in support of interdisciplinary practice operations, decision-making, education, quality, and research initiatives.
• Understands technical capabilities and clinical practices to help the with clinical process redesign and continued improvement.
• Develops key decision documents that will be used to frame decision dialogue and support consensus building among providers, clinical staff, and front-line staff.
• Represents practice operations and other clinical interests and needs related to electronic solutions.

Clinical Business Analysis - 40%

• Works closely with clinical leadership, operational leadership, quality and patient safety and accreditation/licensure departments, information technology staff, and other key stakeholders to clarify needs, prioritize requests, recommend technology design and workflow plans while executing changes, adaptations, and promoting the effective use of health information technology.
• Gathers clinical content, functionality requirements and health/patient care information needs of various specialty areas; ensures that health information technology is capable of supporting diverse customer needs and documentation styles.
• Responsible for direct interaction with providers, clinical operations, ambulatory operations and health information technology including but not limited to helping design and implement processes to articulate the definition of requirements that meet customer needs, regulatory compliance, patient safety, and privacy.

Project Management & Consultation - 20%

• Participates in clinical and operational informatics projects that range from medium to large in scope, risk and impact.
• Participates in strategic projects involved in evaluating and researching new and existing products, procedures and/or workflows needs associated with health information technology.
• Provides consultative services to customers and application and development teams as to workflow processes and technological solutions
• Responsible for managing moderately complex clinical and operational informatics issues and problems
• Provides support in response to user problems and questions regarding functionality, operations, input/output, reporting and general operating procedures
• As a High Reliability Organization (HRO), responsibilities require focus on safety, quality and efficiency in performing job duties.

Bachelor's Degree (Required)

• Degree in nursing, clinical or health informatics, or other healthcare related field.
• Field of Study: nursing, clinical or health informatics, or other healthcare related field.
• Three (3) years of clinical/operational experience in a hospital or major medical center with evidence of clinical information systems use and implementation, experience with implementation of clinical systems in the hospital and/or ambulatory setting, licensed (or eligible for licensure) to practice nursing or other healthcare related field as applicable in the state of Ohio.
• Project management experience, Clinical/Hospital Operations
• Experience Healthcare operations, project management, process improvement basics, use of MS Office applications including MS Project and Visio; Work Shift:

OhioHealth is an equal opportunity employer and fully supports and maintains compliance with all state, federal, and local regulations. OhioHealth does not discriminate against associates or applicants because of race, color, genetic information, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, veteran status, military status, pregnancy, disability, marital status, familial status, or other characteristics protected by law. Equal employment is extended to all person in all aspects of the associate-employer relationship including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, discipline, reduction in staff, termination, assignment of benefits, and any other term or condition of employment

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