Wellstar Health System · 9 hours ago
Regional Director, Clinical Informatics
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expWellstar Health System is dedicated to enhancing the health and well-being of every person they serve. They are seeking a Regional Director of Clinical Informatics, a registered nurse responsible for leading multidisciplinary projects and supporting system-wide initiatives focused on clinical informatics and the implementation of EPIC applications. This role involves collaboration with leadership to optimize clinical workflows and ensure the effective use of clinical information systems.
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Hiring Manager
Erica Strahl, RACR
Responsibilities
Leads and develops programs and has responsibilities to manage regional team members. Works in conjunction with the operational, clinical and information technology leadership team to coordinate all aspects of clinical informatics
Analyze clinical workflows and promote process changes to support the proficient use of the system
Collaborate with system leaders in the development of project-specific work plans, testing plans, go-live plans, task sequencing, and lead clinical informatics team to complete tasks with prioritized time management and preformed accurately and concurrently
Facilitates the development of computerized documentation tools
Serves as a resource for clinical leadership and staff
Multidisciplinary collaboration of planning phases of new systems and future growth
Leads team with appropriate change management methodology through implementation including testing, training and ensuring quality assurance of operating systems and/or software upgrades
Analyzes and evaluates present or proposed clinical workflows, procedures or issues/challenges to define data processing needs and work flow
Provides leadership to regional team members to support multi-user operating systems and software tools, including end user testing, training, and implementation support of these systems
Collaborates with system leaders to identify, monitor and resolve outstanding system/application problems and issues with clinical applications in a timely manner
Monitors and facilitates purposeful clinical rounding of the informatics team with complete cycle issue resolution
Provide optimization oversight and team support for clinical workflow integration
Escalates problems to the proper person/groups in a timely manner
Assess situations and provides a professional and timely status updates
In collaboration with Organizational Learning, Clinical Specialist, and specialty educators conducts and/or coordinates and/or monitors training with end users for operational compliance
Has ownership of the development and delivery of at the elbow support/education/training programs that help the end-users maximize the use of the features and functions of the applications
Leadership oversight for cyberstar program (superuser program)
Collaborates with operational owners/system leaders to ensure specialty, clinical and business focused support during all phases of implementations, upgrades and optimization process
Documents projects, collaborates with educators to write, edit and/or reviews user instructions
Reviews/Creates training documentation that is user friendly, detailed and precise
Serves as a professional role model within the clinical settings
Leads, manages and provides analytic analysis, project management and support activities for clinical informatics to support operational business needs of the organization
Responsible for assigning tasks and providing direction, support, and expertise to the clinical informatics specialist in the department
Develops and administers procedures and guidelines for research and analysis to forecast health care costs, medical management, and health economics
Responsible for developing and managing the organizations capabilities in information systems and tools that are applied to medical/clinical information
Manages and coordinates analytical support for medical clinical quality management initiatives, including profiling, health economics, and business analytics/performance metrics
Collaborates with the Information Systems and System Operational leaders to prioritize medical management needs through optimization work groups
Actively develops policies and procedures to support use of informatics in the practice setting. Actively supports IT policies, procedures and initiatives
Attends regular departmental and Town Hall meetings, and promote/exemplify excellent customer service as aligned with WellStars Credo
Exhibit tact, professionalism, good personal grooming and create a favorable impression to the public and all health system staff through professional dress and good customer service skills
Participates on committees and attends meetings as needed. Complete assigned projects
Participates in special projects as required
Enhance professional growth and development through education programs, workshops or other educational opportunities that may be presented
Keep abreast of emerging technology, opportunity for interoperability and best practice models in clinical informatics
Builds a culture of trust and engagement as reflected in the Great Place to Work Trust Index Survey at a direct report, workgroup and hospital/entity level
Holds leaders accountable for behaviors that create trust and engagement
Performs all duties and responsibilities of this position in a manner that reflects the values of WellStar
Maintains and strengthens relationships with physicians and assures their involvement in developing systems to assure the growth of the service and the cost-effective delivery of quality patient care in a manner that fosters patient and employee satisfaction
Sets challenging and productive goals for team
Holds team accountable for actions while providing leadership and motivation
Provides resources and support
Uses checkpoints and data to track progress, setting up system and processes to measure results
Works collaboratively and as a team member with hospital leadership. Partners with Human Resources to achieve desired organizational culture, staffing and workforce metrics
Fosters positive working relationships between staff and physicians across the Health System
Fosters a culture that focuses on patient satisfaction, safety, customer service, staff participation, collaboration, motivation, and effective communication
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct
Qualification
Required
Bachelors in Nursing is required
Masters in Healthcare Informatics or Nursing is required
RN - Reg Nurse (Single State)
Minimum 10 years in technology and/or healthcare related industry is required
Minimum 5 years in clinical practice setting and/or information technology related activities is preferred
Minimum 3 years leadership or management experience is required
Experience to include a combination of clinical practice, EPIC EHR inpatient documentation applications, information technology implementations and leading a project team is required
Demonstrates ability to lead a team of professionals
Creation and expansion of healthcare integrated project design and development or similar hands-on expertise
Demonstrates excellent written, oral communications skills with leadership abilities related to change management methodologies
Has excellent analytical and research skills
Demonstrates a strong detail orientation and time management skills are required
Knowledge of clinical practice settings and clinical workflow in a variety of clinical settings such as inpatient, hospital outpatient departments, health parks, and physician practice setting are necessary
Preferred
Informatics certification, EPIC Content Builder or Clinical Informaticist
Company
Wellstar Health System
The largest health system in Georgia.
10001+ employees
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