What are the responsibilities and job description for the Clinical Informaticist position at CommonSpirit Health?
CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.
Responsibilities
Do you have a passion for informatics in a healthcare setting? As a Clinical Informaticist, you will use your knowledge, experience, critical thinking, and leadership skills to facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to promoting quality care. You’ll be onsite in our Omaha service center to work with key stakeholders to evaluate, plan, develop, and implement new features, and functionality of our healthcare information systems. You will also support end users by providing training for new hires and existing staff.
Some of what you’ll do:
- Analyze and plan implementations of new EPIC functionality
- Provide oversight and management of assigned projects from beginning to end of implementation
- Provide training for new hires and existing staff on EPIC functionality
- Perform technical review of new optimization requests and upgrade functionality to assess workflow impact
- Collaborate with EPIC dedicated vendors and teams to research and resolve issues
- Remain proficient in company specific applications supported by the Clinical Informatics Department
- Other duties as assigned
- Depending on licenses and qualifications, this position may be filled as a non-clinical informaticist or specialist
Qualifications
Some of what you’ll need
- Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Nursing, Informatics, HIT, Health Administration, or other related field
- Valid clinical license required for clinical informaticist
- Applicants without clinical license may be considered for non-clinical informaticist role
- Two years experience in healthcare setting
- Located in or able to commute to the Omaha area
- Experience with large, diverse projects including planning, facilitating, and implementation
- Experience working with an EMR
- Prior experience with EPIC preferred
- Project Management Professional Certification preferred
- Epic Proficient or Credentialed in primary module within one year of hire.
