Clinical Informaticist

Primary Responsibilities

• Assess clinical information and knowledge needs and identify opportunities to improve clinical workflows, system usability, and care delivery.
• Analyze, map, evaluate, and refine clinical workflows and processes impacted by the Federal EHR.
• Support triage, analysis, and resolution of clinical workflow, configuration, data quality, interoperability, and user-reported issues.
• Develop, evaluate, implement, and refine clinical decision support tools, clinical content, terminology, and knowledge artifacts.
• Participate in the implementation, configuration, evaluation, optimization, and continuous improvement of EHR and other clinical information systems.
• Support EHR Go-Live, Post Go-Live stabilization, workflow optimization, and end-user adoption activities.
• Gather and analyze feedback from clinicians and other end users and translate findings into actionable system or workflow improvements.
• Collaborate with clinical, technical, and program stakeholders and document findings, recommendations, risks, and outcomes.

Minimum Requirements

• Master’s degree (MA/MS) in Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Nursing Informatics, Health Information Management, or a related discipline.
• Minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in clinical informatics, health informatics, healthcare information technology, or a related field.
• Experience evaluating and improving clinical processes, workflows, and healthcare information systems.
• Experience with EHR implementation, optimization, clinical decision support, or related clinical information systems.
• Ability to assess clinical and end-user needs and translate them into actionable workflow, system, or process recommendations.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, documentation, and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Ability to satisfy applicable Federal and VA personnel security, privacy, and information security requirements.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting EHR Go-Live, stabilization, recovery, or Post Go-Live operations.
• Experience with Oracle Health/Cerner Millennium, VA VistA/CPRS, or comparable enterprise EHR platforms.
• Experience with clinical workflow optimization, clinical decision support, terminology, data quality, or interoperability.
• Experience working directly with clinicians and multidisciplinary healthcare teams to identify and resolve EHR-related issues.
• Experience supporting VA, VHA, DoD, or other large Federal healthcare environments.
• Familiarity with SAFe® Lean-Agile principles and experience working within Agile or multidisciplinary delivery teams.

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision plans
• Paid parental leave
• Safe Harbor 401(k) with employer contributions 100% vested from day 1
• Paid time off and 11 paid holidays
• No cost group term life/AD&D plan, and optional supplemental coverage
• Pet insurance
• Monthly phone and internet stipend
• Tuition and training reimbursement