What are the responsibilities and job description for the Nurse Informaticist - Woodlands position at Houston Methodist?
At Houston Methodist, the Nurse Informaticist position is responsible for leadership, planning, and coordination of technology initiatives to meet clinical business goals and objectives for customers and serves as the architect for innovative technology solutions to enhance clinical practice. This position educates and assists leadership in developing strategies to respond to industry drivers that can be impacted by information solutions; the incumbent will interact with all levels of the organization, from front-line staff to senior management. The Nurse Informaticist position collaborates with executive leaders and system hospitals for sharing best practices, reporting methodologies, and ensuring a system approach to decisions. This position collaborates with information technology (IT) and clinical leaders/executives on strategic initiative spanning over years that impact business operations and works to ensure project success.
- Serves as liaison between IT and hospital leadership to facilitate system enhancement decisions through the governance process for impacted groups.
- Leads Subject Matter Experts (SME's) and super users' engagement in design, usability, and system testing.
- Coordinates and/or provides direct support to clinicians for EHR and other clinical systems and technology changes, implementations, or downtimes.
- Advises Senior Leadership on the role and function of information management in operations and on information systems and technology trends.
- Participates in hospital-wide and system-wide committees as a designee of the Chief Nursing Informatics Executive to impact technology decisions that improve organizational processes, performance, and outcomes.
SERVICE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Assesses opportunities for technology improvements through collaboration with frontline clinicians to understand workflows and review of data to accurately define the problem, develop solutions to defined outcomes.
- Develops and implements communication strategies throughout the organization/system to ensure accurate information regarding key technology initiatives: goals, objectives, purpose, improvement strategies, status, and outcomes.
- Facilitates, plans, and directs the development, implementation, evaluation, and optimization of new applications, enhancement to existing applications, or technologies to ensure clinical/nursing goals are achieved.
QUALITY/SAFETY ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Supports development and adoption of standards for evidenced-based knowledge practice and collaborates with educators to create education or competencies as appropriate.
- Ensures clinical systems design compliance with regulatory and certification program requirements in collaboration with quality and regulatory experts.
- Leads in the development and execution of clinical integration and improvement strategies for value-added patient outcomes, enhance efficiencies and reduced variation in care.
FINANCE ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Collaborates with customers in the creation of business cases for new technologies, including cost/benefit analysis for customer base and system selection efforts and to plan for budget considerations related to technology.
GROWTH/INNOVATION ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
- Analyzes data, industry trends, and best practices for identification of improvement opportunities and innovative approaches that drive achievement of organizational strategic initiatives and goals.
- Takes responsibility for own professional development. Completes the My Development Plan (MDP).
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; the employee will also perform other reasonably related business/job duties as assigned. Houston Methodist reserves the right to revise job duties and responsibilities as the need arises.
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing
- Master's degree in Nursing, Business Administration or Healthcare Administration
WORK EXPERIENCE
- Six years experience in nursing or related healthcare experience
- Two years experience in informatics or IT systems management and implementation preferred
