Coordinator - Clinical Informatics
Description
Wage Range: $96,762 - $154,814 per year
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Job Summary:
The Clinical Informatics Project Coordinator is responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing clinical informatics projects to enhance the integration and optimization of the Epic EMR and other clinical applications. This role involves facilitating committee meetings, developing project plans, coordinating testing efforts, and ensuring the effective rollout of EMR enhancements. The Project Coordinator works collaboratively with clinical teams, informatics, analysts, and quality improvement teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals, timelines, and standards. Additionally, the Project Coordinator manages clinical decision support functions, including monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of Best Practice Alerts (BPAs) to integrate smoothly into clinical workflows, fostering data-driven, patient-centered care. This position is instrumental in advancing clinical efficiency, maintaining data integrity, and improving patient care outcomes through technology-enabled solutions.
The Clinical Informatics Project Coordinator is responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing clinical informatics projects to enhance the integration and optimization of the Epic EMR and other clinical applications. This role involves facilitating committee meetings, developing project plans, coordinating testing efforts, and ensuring the effective rollout of EMR enhancements. The Project Coordinator works collaboratively with clinical teams, informatics, analysts, and quality improvement teams to ensure alignment with organizational goals, timelines, and standards. Additionally, the Project Coordinator manages clinical decision support functions, including monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of Best Practice Alerts (BPAs) to integrate smoothly into clinical workflows, fostering data-driven, patient-centered care. This position is instrumental in advancing clinical efficiency, maintaining data integrity, and improving patient care outcomes through technology-enabled solutions.
Functions as a liaison between EvergreenHealth’s clinical areas and the IT department. This includes managing technical requests from the clinical area customers and working closely with them to prioritize the work. Coordinates the work of the team members and acts as lead on complex problems or activities, working to determine the needs and requirements for clinical applications in acute, ambulatory and home care settings.
Primary Duties:
- Works closely with IT and Clinical Leadership teams to manage requests and prioritize the work of the Clinical Informatics Team.
- Coordinates the work of the Clinical Informatics Team.
- Provides input to Clinical Informatics Supervisor and/or Manager on individual employee performance, which contributes to annual employee performance reviews.
- Plans and organizes day-to-day activities, short and long term projects with in-depth knowledge of organizational and project planning processes, and produces and maintains high quality planning documents.
- Works with users to define system requirements for content (data elements) and successful integration into workflow.
- Performs workflow analysis of multidisciplinary healthcare provider activities, and translates into optimal system design and content for organizational and unit-based practice.
- Leads, facilitates, and consults with multidisciplinary healthcare provider work teams in the specification and design of the EMR for order management, clinical data repository, documentation, clinical pathways, and clinical and operational decision support.
- Conducts formal and informal staff and provider training and assists with monitoring competencies regarding use of the Electronic Medical Records (EMR).
- Works with educational resources to develop training curriculum and end-user documentation and learning aids.
- Acts as an expert resource to staff by anticipating and identifying educational, procedural and functional problems associated with the implementation of the EMR functionality applying change management principles.
- Monitors system impact on user and departmental workflows and incorporates results into system enhancements.
- Works with clinicians from all departments, to identify areas where clinical information systems can effectively support and enhance their clinical process.
- Provides onsite and remote support to clinicians and others during application/EMR functionality implementations and as needed. Works closely with Information Technology Customer Support services to provide efficient and responsive support to end user staff.
- Serves as the primary contact and mentor, along with other members of the Clinical Informatics Team, for the clinical information systems super users across all departments.
- Facilitates interdepartmental communications and acts as a liaison between the IT department and other departments within the health system.
- Prepares educational materials, newsletters and other supportive documentation for users on an ongoing basis. Maintains current and accurate documentation for users. Participates in departmental meetings to provide ongoing education and assist in issue resolution.
- Coordinates the improvement of clinician documentation through a variety of methods such as job aids, training, and quality improvement strategies for clinical staff.
- Trains, educates, and instructs clinical users on features, operation, and usage of software systems.
- Manages, trouble shoots, applies resolution and provides prompt feedback to end users on Service Requests.
- Participates proactively in issue prevention and problem resolution through effective use of assessment, evaluation, planning and communication. Takes call on a rotating basis as necessary for after-hours user support.
- Develops and communicates change control procedures and clinical updates for the EMR.
- Monitors system performance, and reports to IT when anomalies, errors, inaccuracies, or inefficiencies occur. Makes recommendations as needed.
- Responsible for assigned tasks within the specification of the project management schedule for maintenance of various applications throughout their life-cycle (implementation, upgrades, etc.).
- Performs other duties as assigned.
License, Certification, Education or Experience:
REQUIRED for the position:
- Current clinical license (RN, RT, PT, etc.) in the state of Washington.
- Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities, timelines, and resources effectively.
- Proficiency and experience with EPIC EMR applications.
- More than five years of Informatics experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare and/or Information Sciences
- Five years of direct work experience in an acute care, ambulatory or home care setting
- Previous supervisory or leadership experience
- Medical terminology and understanding of workflows
- Must be proficient and have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.)
- Adept at persuading and training physicians and staff to adopt new workflows and tools, requiring strong knowledge of change management
- Knowledge of adult learning and training methods
- Ability to maintain confidentiality of all medical, financial, and legal information
- Ability to complete work assignments accurately and in a timely manner
- Ability to communicate effectively, with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to handle difficult situations involving patients, physicians, or others in a professional manner
- Ability to work independently, exercise creativity, and maintain a positive attitude
- Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work
- Strong and sound competency in mapping real-life nursing and physician practices to informatics applications
- Strong knowledge of systems analysis, workflow planning, gathering business requirements and transforming them into functional specifications
- Broad knowledge of healthcare operations and associate technologies
- Ability to read and understand technical manuals, procedural documentation, and healthcare guides
- Excellent ability to translate technical terminology for consumption by non-technical audiences
- Awareness of current IT security standards, applicable privacy laws, JC accreditation standards
- Ability to lead and recommend documentation strategy changes to meet current safety and quality trends
DESIRED for the position:
- Experience with providing direct patient care in a clinical setting
Benefit Information:
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At EvergreenHealth, we appreciate our employees’ commitment and contribution to our success. We are proud to offer a suite of quality benefits and resources that are comprehensive, flexible, and competitive to help our staff and their loved ones maintain and improve health and financial well-being.
- Medical, vision and dental insurance
- On-demand virtual health care
- Health Savings Account
- Flexible Spending Account
- Life and disability insurance
- Retirement plans 457(b) and 401(a) with employer contribution)
- Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees
- Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program
- Paid Time Off/Vacation
- Extended Illness Bank/Sick Leave
- Paid holidays
- Voluntary hospital indemnity insurance
- Voluntary identity theft protection
- Voluntary legal insurance
- Pay in lieu of benefits premium program
- Free parking
- Commuter benefits
- Cafeteria & Gift Shop Discount
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