Healthcare IT: Clinical Information Systems Intern

Encompass Health Corporation; Birmingham (AL); On-site; USD 17,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Encompass Health Corporation is seeking a Clinical Information Systems Student Intern in Birmingham, AL, to gain hands-on experience in healthcare IT within our inpatient rehabilitation network. The internship runs through the summer, with opportunities to contribute to ongoing projects and learn from senior clinicians and IT staff.

Responsibilities include assisting with clinical systems projects, learning security practices, and presenting key skills learned.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Information Technology or relevant field.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.
• Project support for healthcare applications and devices, implementation, and optimization that require knowledge of how to conduct workflow analysis, requirements gathering and documentation.
• Basic familiarity with identity access and management, networking, security controls for operating systems, applications, and network devices and related services/tools.
• Working knowledge of service request fulfillment, documentation writing, metrics reporting.
• Must be able to work in our Home Office in Birmingham, Alabama from Monday, June 7th, 2027, to Friday, July 30, 2027

Responsibilities

• Support clinical systems analysts with various efforts, projects, and programs
• Manage projects and tasks as assigned
• Respond to requests for assistance from business units and other internal customers
• Contribute to ongoing improvement of clinical systems efforts
• Keep Security Lead apprised of activities, issues, commitments, etc.
• Summarize technical details into high-level descriptions for presentation to CISO and other management
• Complete all task and assignments accurately and timely
• Proactively seeks to learn about the company and the department
• Participates in all intern specific activities (if applicable)
• Create and present presentation on job skills learned (if applicable)

Skills

Teamwork

Workflow analysis

Documentation

IAM basics

Networking basics

Healthcare apps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/MIS/IT

Job description

Encompass Health Corporation is seeking a Clinical Information Systems Student Intern in Birmingham, AL, to gain hands-on experience in healthcare IT within our inpatient rehabilitation network. The internship runs through the summer, with opportunities to contribute to ongoing projects and learn from senior clinicians and IT staff.

Responsibilities include assisting with clinical systems projects, learning security practices, and presenting key skills learned.