Clinical Informaticist

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke’s Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first facility in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.

The locally based Clinical Informaticist (CI) promotes understanding, integration, and application of information technology in the healthcare setting. The CI applies education and experience to effectively address complex challenges in diverse healthcare delivery environments. The CI acts as a liaison between clinical care and information technology, supporting employees throughout the care continuum in the full life cycle of clinical technology projects. The CI role promotes system standardization and optimization. The position supports clinical value transformation and evidence based practice strategies with the outcome of improving patient safety and care quality through the integration of system workflows, technology enhancements, and clinical dashboards. The CI provides informatics expertise in curriculum design and delivery, EHR training and competency validation to associates.

Due to the scope of responsibilities and job setting for this role, a Registered Nurse (RN) will be required.

Ability to work in a fast-paced complex environment.

Ensures that workflow and training knowledge delivered is consistent with and accurately reflects current national informatics and adult learning standards.

Communicates technology changes, upgrades, and downtimes to clinical customers. Conducts workflow analysis to improve efficient, reliable use of the clinical information systems. Scheduled facility rounding as directed.

Participate in implementation and go-live activities Develops and maintains established standards of work and system design.

Actively and efficiently engages with key leaders, teams and subject matter experts to collaborate on and influence the design and development of projects, curriculum and workflows, and the integration of technology into patient care processes. Engaged in projects focused on adding enhanced functionality and/or creating end user efficiency that generates a positive return on investment for the organization.

Promotes highest attainable quality in the full life cycle of Clinical Information Systems.

Participates in educational programs, current evidence, projects, meetings and workshops.

Contributes to all assigned projects from initial kick-off through conclusion of implementation.

Collaborates with stakeholders to identify implementation objectives and guiding principles.

Informs the scoping of the project to clearly articulate the needs of the request.

Supports developing, communicating, and managing implementation timeline and milestones.

Engages the appropriate team members and coordinates assigned work.

Provides routine and appropriate communication at project status, accomplishments, upcoming activities, and risks.

Proactively Identifies and escalates issues as appropriate. Develops mitigation plans when necessary.

Perform technical review of new optimization requests and upgrade functionality to assess for workflow impact.

Make recommendations on proposed optimizations.

Collaborate with the System IT team on researching and resolving identified break-fix items.

Remains proficient in the use of CommonSpirit Health specific applications that are supported by the Clinical Informatics Department.

Participates in assigned committees or workgroups to serve as a resource for Informatics

Required Education and Experience:

● Bachelor’s degree required
● Minimum 2 years clinical experience

Preferred:

Computer Science, MIS, Degree in Nursing, Informatics, HIT, Health Administration, or other related field

Required License and Certifications:

Registered Nurse: TX (RN:TX)  or

Occupational Therapist: TX (OT:TX)  or

Physical Therapist: TX (PT:TX)  or

Required:

EPIC Certification (EPIC)  or

Informatics Nurse (RN-BC INFO)  or

Project Management Professional (PMP)