Position Summary The Clinical Informatics Specialist serves as a liaison between clinicians, business operations, and technology teams to optimize the use of clinical information systems in both inpatient and ambulatory environments. This role promotes the effective, efficient, and safe use of healthcare technology to support patient care, patient safety, clinical productivity, user satisfaction, regulatory compliance, and quality outcomes.
Key Responsibilities • Lead basic to moderately complex projects and initiatives to support clinical informatics objectives. • Analyze clinical and organizational needs and recommend solutions, process improvements, tools, and technologies. • Collaborate with clinicians and operational stakeholders to identify current and future technology requirements. • Evaluate and map existing workflows and business processes, recommending changes to support integrated technology solutions. • Provide guidance and support to team members on non-routine or escalated issues and assist with work prioritization. • Participate in the development and implementation of policies, procedures, and initiatives related to clinical information management. • Ensure information systems, processes, and technologies comply with applicable healthcare laws, regulations, and organizational standards. • Design, develop, and deliver training materials and educational programs for end users. • Lead and facilitate clinical workgroups responsible for system design decisions, workflow optimization, and solution recommendations. • Recruit and engage clinicians for workgroup participation and competency validation activities. • Develop project status reports and communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to leadership. • Create test scenarios and scripts, coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), and support implementation activities. • Investigate and resolve complex issues related to clinical applications and project deliverables. • Coordinate resources and activities to achieve strategic organizational goals. • Serve as a subject matter expert on Health Ministry workflows, policies, and operational requirements. • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and recommend solutions that enhance efficiency, quality, and user experience.
Required Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Clinical Informatics, Healthcare, Information Technology, Nursing, Healthcare Administration, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. • Experience working with Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. • Understanding of data collected, documented, and utilized within electronic medical records (EMRs), with demonstrated experience navigating EMR systems. • Knowledge of ambulatory and acute care clinical workflows and clinical information systems. • Strong critical thinking, analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills. • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. • Experience collaborating with clinical and operational stakeholders to support technology initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications • Epic certifications in Clin Doc, Orders, and OpTime preferred. • Previous experience as an Epic analyst and/or Epic application build experience preferred. • Experience with Epic Signal and Epic Gold Stars. • Experience supporting healthcare quality measures, analytics, performance improvement, or clinical informatics initiatives. • Knowledge of healthcare terminology standards and value set code systems, including: o SNOMED CT o LOINC o ICD-9/ICD-10 o CPT/HCPCS o RxNorm o CVX o Other healthcare coding and terminology systems
Required Skills • Clinical workflow analysis and process improvement • Clinical systems implementation and optimization • Project leadership and coordination • User training and change management • Testing and validation (UAT) • Stakeholder communication and relationship management • Regulatory and compliance awareness • Data analysis and clinical information management
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $70.00/hr - $75.00/hr.
