Director of Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics (Full-Time, Days)

Key Responsibilities

• Align health information technology and clinical activities within the organization.
• Apply framework and strategy for enterprise initiatives and evaluations.
• Represent provider/nursing interests in partnerships with clinical, operational, and IT leadership to translate clinical needs into information system needs.
• Manage a team of nursing informaticists in the delivery of processes and technologies that support quality patient outcomes.
• Facilitate health IT implementations that support and enhance clinician workflow, specifically for core and specialty electronic health records and their integrated clinician-facing applications.
• Partner with IT, Operations, Clinicians, and other colleagues to create and apply evidence-based tools within our learning health system.
• Maintain effective communication with the executive team and other stakeholders, both written and verbal.
• Cultivate informatics and leadership skills within the internal team, ensuring open communication between direct reports and other levels of leadership.
• Serve as subject matter expert with field and corporate partners to establish and disseminate best practices for integrated technologies.
• Identify highest-value opportunities to propose solutions to clinical workflow and operational barriers, based on data and observation.
• Lead the following teams:
• Advisory Group Training
• User Center Designed team
• Advisory Group Training
• Physician Builder, Clinical Builder Team
• Assist the build team with current and future build projects including facilitation between IT and clinical departments during the build process.
• Act as a bridge between the Nurse/Clinical Informaticists and Operational, Clinical and IT leadership.
• Act as a bridge between the Physician Builders and Clinical Builders and IT.
• Participate in the development of clinical data science education including analytics.
• Absorb and assist in the development of communication such as Knowledge Builders, Strides articles, and e-mail communication.
• Oversee the clinical information segment of EMR training through the Specialist Training Specialist program to ensure classroom training is current, precise and relevant for providers across the system.
• Support the Clinical Support/Personalization Labs.
• Help develop tools to assess end user proficiency and needs as well as efficacy of training and support visits /tools.
• Provide 1:1 support for new sites / providers as well as staff that require additional training after the initial go live period has ended.
• Functions as an IT/Clinical resource for Care Connect and Dragon software.

Desired Attributes

• Able to manage multiple projects, timetables and implementations.
• Able to work with inter-disciplinary teams to accomplish complex activities.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Able to positively communicate and work with professionals at all levels of the organization.

Minimum Qualifications

• Certification in at least one Epic Clinical module preferred (Physician builder certification strongly preferred).
• Experience with Epic EMR.
• Education: LICENSES / CERTIFICATIONS: PA-C - Certified Physician Assistant - National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA), RPA - Registered Physician Assistant - New York State Education Department (NYSED)New York State Education Department (NYSED)New York State Education Department (NYSED)