WhidbeyHealth · 3 months ago
Clinical Informatics Specialist
Coupeville, WA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$95K/yr - $132K/yr
5+ years expWhidbeyHealth is a healthcare provider seeking a Clinical Informatics Specialist to support the core functions of their clinical applications and systems. The role involves assisting clinical staff with workflow optimization, application support, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements to enhance patient care quality and safety.
Responsibilities
Uses clinical knowledge of patient care & combines with informatics concepts as collaborating with healthcare professionals on clinical applications, systems, and solutions to facilitate quality driven, accurate and efficient design / build
Conducts assessments of current workflow(s) and enhances, creates, and optimizes workflow solution(s) that are compliant with government regulations, and / or evidenced based practice that improves clinical workflow efficiencies, documentation quality, and improves patient safety
Facilitate or lead design sessions that promote overall team consensus and collaboration across all affected business units to optimize, develop, design, build and implement application and system changes that are integrated solutions for WhidbeyHealth and minimizes overall patient & organizational risks
Build clinical content within clinical information applications and systems to match desired & approved design
Test new clinical content build changes, and vendor updates and upgrades to ensure and verify error free and applicable integration with other business units / systems
Provide new employee clinical applications and systems education and at the shoulder support as needed during regular clinical rounds
Provide and use problem solving techniques to troubleshoot application, system, and clinical workflow issues, escalating issues appropriately and in a timely manner
Ensure EHR compliance with regulatory requirements related to Health IT (e.g. 21st Century Cures Act, Promoting Interoperability, MIPS)
Performs EHR system takedown and restore procedures as needed for server maintenance and updates
Routinely reviews, updates and provides change control in EHR vendor’s customer service application
Participate in the development and enforcement of IT / clinical informatics policies and procedures
Participate in departmental on-call rotation schedule
Qualification
Required
Graduate of a school of professional nursing required
3 years of clinical experience in nursing with 2 years' clinical informatics experience required
Current WA State RN Licensure
Preferred
BSN and / or degree in Informatics preferred
Informatics or Health IT certification (e.g. NI-BC, CPHIMS, or CAHIMS) is preferred. Candidates should be prepared to obtain certification within 24 months of employment if not already certified
Company
WhidbeyHealth
WhidbeyHealth Medical Center and clinics are operated by the Whidbey Island Public District Hospital, which is dedicated to providing exceptional care with compassion and respect.
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageCompany data provided by crunchbase