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Thank you for your interest in joining our team! Please review the job information below.
Monday through Friday, 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM; however, scheduling changes may occur based on staffing requirements.
General Purpose of Job:
The Clinical Informaticist serves as a leader responsible for optimizing the integration of clinical information systems, technology, and clinical workflows within the inpatient hospital environment. Working under the direction of the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) and the CICU Medical Director, this position serves as a liaison between physicians, clinical departments, hospital leadership, and Information Services to ensure that the electronic health record (EHR) and other clinical technologies support safe, effective, efficient, and evidence-based pediatric care. The Clinical Informaticist provides clinical expertise and oversight in the design, development, implementation, and optimization of inpatient clinical technology functionality, including support for surveillance and monitoring tools, EPIC Application Analysts and physician-builder activities. The position is responsible for evaluating clinical workflows, identifying opportunities for process improvement, and supporting the successful implementation and adoption of new technologies within inpatient clinical operations. The role supports organizational priorities related to patient safety, clinical outcomes, data quality, quality improvement, clinical standardization, operational efficiency, and clinician experience.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive; employees will perform other reasonably related business duties as assigned by the immediate supervisor and/or hospital administration as required.
· Always maintains utmost level of confidentiality.
· Adheres to hospital policies and procedures
· Demonstrates business practices and personal actions that are ethical and adhere to corporate compliance and integrity guidelines.
· Punctuality is an essential function of the job
Clinical Informatics, Workflow Optimization, and EHR Development
- Evaluates, designs, standardizes, and optimizes inpatient clinical workflows to improve efficiency, documentation, interdisciplinary coordination, and patient safety.
- Collaborates with physicians, clinical stakeholders, EPIC Application Analysts, and Information Services to translate clinical needs into EHR functionality, documentation tools, clinical decision support, and other technology-enabled solutions.
- Participates in authorized physician-builder activities, clinical configuration, requirements development, testing, troubleshooting, implementation, and ongoing EHR optimization.
- Promotes standardized, evidence-based clinical content while accommodating appropriate specialty-specific workflows and established clinical governance requirements.
Clinical Data Quality, Clinical Registry, and Data Management
- Supports the accuracy, completeness, integrity, and usability of clinical data captured in the EHR and associated clinical systems.
- Coordinates or participates in clinical data collection, interpretation, validation, reconciliation, and submission for ICU patients to institutional and external databases, including the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium registry, as assigned.
- Collaborates with clinical, quality, and analytics teams to improve data definitions, documentation standards, data integration, reporting, and the reliability of clinical measures.
Clinical Technology Innovation and Predictive Analytics
- Evaluates, implements, and optimizes clinical technologies, including artificial intelligence, remote monitoring, predictive analytics, mobile applications, and clinical decision support tools.
- Provides clinical expertise in defining predictive variables, clinical events, outcomes, and physiologic criteria; supports data quality assessment, literature review, and clinical validation of predictive models.
- Collaborates with clinicians, data scientists, analysts, Information Services, and external partners to integrate technology and predictive analytics into clinical workflows.
- Evaluates technology effectiveness and predictive model performance, including clinical utility, adoption, alert burden, unintended consequences, and patient safety.
Inpatient Telemedicine, ICU, and Clinical Support
- When assigned to ICU coverage, provides real-time virtual support for critically ill CICU patients through review of available video systems, physiologic monitoring, EHR data, imaging, and relevant clinical analytics to support timely clinical decision-making.
- Collaborates with bedside attending physicians, nursing staff, and interdisciplinary teams to support patient assessment, recognition of clinical deterioration, timely communication, and appropriate clinical interventions.
- Performs longitudinal clinical monitoring and trend analysis for patients with prolonged CICU stays and supports clinical activities such as imaging rounds, sign-out, transitions of care, and supplemental coverage, as assigned.
- Documents clinical interactions, recommendations, and follow-up actions in accordance with clinical service requirements and hospital policies.
- Monitors AI-driven analytics tools to identify predicted decompensation and critical events, enabling early recognition of clinical deterioration and timely intervention.
Quality Improvement, Patient Safety, and Clinical Outcomes
- Collaborates with clinical quality, patient safety, and operational teams to identify and implement informatics-supported improvement initiatives.
- Leads or participates in adverse event reviews, cardiac arrest analyses, sentinel event reviews, and multidisciplinary case discussions, as appropriate to the role.
- Uses clinical and operational data, including registry information, to evaluate outcomes, identify performance gaps, and develop meaningful quality measures.
- Recommends and evaluates system modifications, workflow improvements, evidence-based clinical pathways, and educational interventions to improve care quality and patient safety.
Physician Engagement, Education, and Informatics Governance
- Serves as a clinical liaison among inpatient clinical services, the CMIO, clinical leadership, and Information Services to identify priorities and advance clinical informatics initiatives.
- Participates in clinical informatics governance, multidisciplinary workgroups, clinician education, technology adoption, and change management.
- Contributes to academic and educational activities through presentations, lectures, manuscripts, and scholarly work related to clinical informatics, pediatric critical care, technology, quality improvement, and patient outcomes.
- Maintains awareness of developments in clinical informatics, pediatric critical care, artificial intelligence, and emerging healthcare technologies.
Education and/or Experience:
- Master's degree in Nursing Informatics, Health Informatics, Health Sciences, Healthcare -Administration, or a related discipline required.
- Five or more years of experience in healthcare, clinical informatics, clinical systems, or healthcare information technology preferred.
- Two or more years of leadership, supervisory, project management, or team coordination experience preferred.
- Demonstrated experience with EHR implementation, optimization, clinical workflow redesign, or clinical technology initiatives.
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary clinical and technical teams.
- Experience with quality improvement, patient safety, data analytics, or regulatory compliance preferred.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations.
- Active Clinical License, such as RN or MD, if applicable to the role and organizational requirements preferred.
- National certification obtained upon reaching eligibility preferred.
o Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS).
o Certified Associate in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CAHIMS).
- Active unrestricted Texas Driver’s License.
