Local Contract Nurse RN - Clinical Informatics
Philadelphia, PA
Equiliem
5x8 hrs, Days

Job Summary:
The Health Informatics Specialist III is an experienced informatics nurse and experienced internal consultant who partners with the Departments of Clinical, Business and DTS teams to support the successful, design, implementation, adoption and interoperability of clinical and non-clinical information systems across the CHOP enterprise.
The Health Informatics Specialist III is directly engaged in enterprise, capital and operational projects. Utilizing process improvement and change management techniques, the Health Informatics Specialist III is responsible for identifying and implementing improvement opportunities with an aim of harm and risk reduction, improving workflows and care delivery, and evaluating the effectiveness of integrated technologies
The Health Informatics Specialist III adheres to the organizational and DTS department
mission, vision and values. The Health Informatics Specialist III practices within the defined scope of practice designated by the regulatory bodies of Pennsylvania as required.

Job Responsibilities:
-Serves as a liaison between Digital & Technology Services and nursing, providers, allied health and
non-clinical end users.
-Develops and maintains effective partnerships with clinical and operational leadership.
-Analyzes clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services to determine applicability to nursing
and clinical practice, operational processes, administration and research.
-Demonstrates excellent critical thinking and problem solving skills.
-Leads unit level core and sub-teams for operational and implementation work.
-Consults with individuals and groups in defining healthcare information problems, identifies methods
for implementing, utilizing and modifying DTS solutions and data structures to support healthcare access, delivery and evaluation.
-Works collaboratively with enterprise-wide governance and/or unit level Nursing Shared Governance.
-Identifies the impact of clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services on clinical workflows
and collaborates with stakeholders to mitigate identified risks.
-Analyzes clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services to determine applicability to clinical
practice, education, business processes and research.
-Communicates with key stakeholders, sponsors and internal customers, giving presentations, project
updates and gathering input on enterprise and operational projects and initiatives.
-Serve as a preceptor for graduate informatics students.
-Partners for clinical communication and offers guidance clinical workflow processes during downtime
events and through EHR reconciliation.
-Demonstrates knowledge of system life cycles and complies with defined framework for system
implementation for developing, reviewing, approving and disseminating changes clinical and non-clinical
Digital & Technology Services.
-Operationalizes change by using quality methodologies for standardizing processes in accordance with
current evidence, quality initiatives, regulatory compliance, billing compliance.
-Develops risk/benefit matrices of alternate solutions to help clinical partners with decision making.
-Recognizes the impact change on clinical and non-clinical systems to assure adoption across the
system. Partners with education and communications.
-Collaborates with clinical partners for problem identification and documents workflows (current and
future state requirements).
-Assists with project and operational testing.
-Perform gap analyses and works with clients to identify solutions to close identified gaps and mitigate
risks.
-Serves as a project consultant in the design and implementation of complex Digital & Technology
Services process improvement projects.

 

• Priority
  • Ambulatory and inpatient experience essential.
• Not Required
  • -Telehealth implementation experience
  • -Remote patient monitoring experience