Clinical Informatics Specialist

Job description

Position Overview The Clinical Informatics Specialist is a registered nurse or other clinician, with expert level clinical knowledge in the relevant area, or physician, with informatics experience. They are knowledgeable with the clinical processes and practice, relevant regulatory requirements and recommendations, and principles of quality/safety improvement. This position will use their knowledge of clinical sciences, computer science, and information science towards improving the health of the UHS patient population and surrounding communities. This informaticist uses their clinical and informatics skills for assessment, planning, training, implementation, evaluation and optimization of clinical informatics projects. They actively engage in group meetings/activities, is able to independently lead group discussions and works as a change agent within focused workgroups. This informaticist is able to identify gaps between best practice operational needs and current EHR build, collaborating with the EHR team as the clinical expert to develop, plan, and test build changes. They participate as a liaison between clinical operations and Information Services to ensure multi- and inter-di...