Physician Informaticist
Company: Northern Arizona Healthcare
Location: Flagstaff
Posted on: August 7, 2022
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Job Description:
The Physician Informaticist serves as a vital liaison between
the clinical information systems/ information technology department
and healthcare professionals. This position will provide knowledge
and experience-based support to highly visible, sensitive, and
multi-faceted initiatives. The Physician informaticist will serve
as a subject matter expert (SME) on physician clinical content,
terminologies and clinical decision support of clinical systems,
and physician education regarding clinical informatics.
The Physician informaticist acts as a bi-directional champion for
information technology efforts impacting provider workflow and
patient care as a well as a trainer, educator and coach. The
Physician informaticist will be responsible for supporting the
development, implementation and use of clinical information systems
to assist clinicians in the delivery of the highest quality and
most appropriate patient care. This position will analyze EMR
utilization and performance data to drive maximum adoption and
efficient use of the EMR.
This position, in collaboration with the informatics team, will
participate in appropriate meetings to drive meaningful change,
decision making and provider engagement. The Physician
informaticist will build and maintain strong working relationships
with the provider community.
Strategy and Planning
* Analyzes complex clinical operations, organizational structures,
and care processes to facilitate decision making regarding EMR
design and workflow.
* Gains the support and consensus of physician leadership and
regarding information technology needs and priorities and
represents these needs in strategic planning.
* Chairs, co-chairs and/or attends governance meetings and steering
committees as applicable.
* Collaborates with physicians and staff to optimize the usage of
clinical systems through education, training, quality outcomes and
provides support for those systems.
* Uses analytical applications to review and support the
development of trainings and support plans.
Management and Operations
* Promotes evidence-based and efficient practices utilizing
technology to support and advance provider workflow.
* Evaluates the impact of information technology on clinical
processes and identifies areas to promote the use of technology in
creating efficiencies for clinicians and improving quality of
care.
* Responsible for timely and accurate communication for clinical
system issues within scope. Establishes and maintains strong
provider relationships and open communication pathways.
* Translates existing, complex workflows, from a variety of patient
care settings across the inpatient and outpatient arena, into logic
that enhances configuration of clinical information systems thereby
facilitating enhanced patient care and safety.
* Participates in the planning of training as well as tutoring of
physicians and staff in the use of hospital information health
systems.
Workforce Development/ Leadership
* Provides consultation, guidance and education to organizational
leaders regarding clinical documentation systems and best
practices.
* Establishes and maintains relationships with clinicians and
advocates the use of standardized clinical information systems to
support clinical decision support, evidence-based practice, and
patient safety.
* Ensures clinical leaders are involved, educated and updated in
all matters relate to EMR system
changes/updates/projects/changes.
* Serves as an adviser to the CIO, CMO, CNOs or other senior
leaders.
* Be a visible champion for the establishment of longitudinal
inpatient and outpatient electronic health record (EHR)
systems.
* Provides medical leadership in the areas of planning,
development, preparation and implementation of strategic and
tactical clinical information systems, this may include: core
clinical systems, physician order entry documentation, and system
wide divisional and departmental clinical systems including the
development of a computerized patient record.
* Collaborates with health system clinical staff including
physicians, nurses, therapists, technicians and ancillary personnel
to effectively and safely re-design clinical care information
processes leveraging opportunities for improvement using clinical
information systems while understanding concurrent limitations.
* Helps set priorities and delivers clinical information solutions
that are practical and effective, obtaining buy-in from medical
staff leadership as well as the medical staff at-large.
Personal Knowledge and Acumen
* Continually remains knowledgeable of applicable Federal, State,
and Local laws and regulations; regulatory standards; the
organization's policies and procedures; and keep track of
forecasted changes to federal and state requirements around
clinical performance (e.g. Value Based Purchasing, readmission
penalties, ambulatory initiatives, etc.) to ensure ongoing success
of NAH.
* Remains current with new technologies as well as national and
local issues affecting healthcare information technology and their
potential influence on the institution.
Compliance/Safety
* Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely
fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related
training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work
environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also
performing work in a safe manner.
* Stays current and complies with state and federal
regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the
employee's area of responsibility.
* If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or
licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
* Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific
training in the specified time frame.
Education
Education commensurate with Arizona MD or DO license - Required
Certification & Licensures
Lights on/Cerner Advance preferred and completion within 1 year
from date of hire
Other Cerner certifications or conference to support provider
education and adoption
Cerner Fundamentals within 1 year from date of hire
Experience
Understands and working knowledge of EMR workflows and ability to
analyze processes.
Demonstrates high level critical thinking abilities, analysis and
problem solving skills
Working knowledge and application of project management, SDLC, ITSM
and ITIL process methodologies
Demonstrated clinical and leadership influence abilities, and
superuser proficiency with inpatient and outpatient systems.
Excellent communication and people skills and skilled in process
management and management of group dynamics.
Demonstrated ability to perform in a team environment, utilizing
effective team relationship skills and ability to interact with all
levels of the organization.
Flexible and comfortable with ambiguity and change with proven past
experience in managing change process in a previous position.
Healthcare is a rapidly changing environment and technology is
integrated into almost all aspects of patient care. Computers and
other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and
throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding
of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software
programs.
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