Remote Epic Willow Pharmacy Informaticist

Innova; Roseville (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Innova is seeking a Pharmacy Informaticist specializing in Epic Willow for a Sacramento-area health system. The role focuses on backlog triage, clinical translation, and building IT-ready specifications to improve medication safety and workflow efficiency.

You will collaborate with pharmacy leaders, clinicians, and IT to address build defects, workflow gaps, and formulary maintenance while standardizing medication processes across markets. A CA license and acute-care experience are required.

Qualifications

• PharmD or BS Pharmacy degree.
• Active, unrestricted California pharmacist license (or eligible before start).
• 3+ years of pharmacy informatics experience in an acute care hospital or health system.
• Hands-on Epic Willow Inpatient experience, including medication build and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of order sets, preference lists and medication records.
• Experience with automated dispensing cabinets (Pyxis preferred) and their Epic interfaces.
• Track record of translating clinical needs into build requirements for IT analysts.
• Comfortable presenting to and influencing pharmacists, physicians, nurses and IT leaders.

Responsibilities

• Review and prioritize build tickets across Willow Inpatient/Ambulatory, OpTime and ASAP, starting with patient-safety and high-volume issues.
• Determine root cause: Epic build defect, workflow gap, or operational practice that needs to change.
• Write clear clinical requirements and build specifications for IT analysts, then validate fixes in testing before go-live.
• Meet regularly (virtually) with pharmacy leaders and staff in each market to gather issues and explain system changes.
• Partner with physicians and nurses on medication-related build issues in orders, MAR, verification and dispensing workflows.
• Serve as the liaison between system pharmacy, market pharmacy operations and IT analysts.
• Reinforce system pharmacy medication standards across markets and in the Epic build.
• Identify and request changes to preference lists, order sets and order panels.
• Troubleshoot Pyxis/automated dispensing cabinet interface issues, including medication ID mapping that is not working.
• Support ERX/medication record, dispensable product and formulary maintenance.
• Document decisions, workflow changes and build rationale.
• Bring recurring issues and standardization decisions to pharmacy and clinical governance groups.
• Create tip sheets and education for pharmacists, technicians, providers and nurses when workflows change.

Education

PharmD or BS Pharmacy

CA Pharmacist License (active or eligible)

Certification in informatics (preferred)

Tools

Epic Willow Inpatient

Pyxis interfaces

Job description

Innova is seeking a Pharmacy Informaticist specializing in Epic Willow for a Sacramento-area health system. The role focuses on backlog triage, clinical translation, and building IT-ready specifications to improve medication safety and workflow efficiency.

You will collaborate with pharmacy leaders, clinicians, and IT to address build defects, workflow gaps, and formulary maintenance while standardizing medication processes across markets. A CA license and acute-care experience are required.