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Overview
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.
With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.
At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.
The Clinical Informatics Specialist III is responsible for promoting the understanding, integration, and innovation of clinical information technology to improve the clinician and patient experience. This role supports organizational goals and initiatives using the input, analysis, and retrieval of data to improve processes. This role maintains knowledge of clinical practice and a relationship with clinical and IT leadership.
This position is full time-salaried, eligible for remote work.
Responsibilities
- Lead translation and governance of IT, clinical staff, patients, and leadership collaborating with key stakeholders and advocating for clinicians and patients.
- Provide leadership on clinical application strategy, anticipating future technical needs and trends to promote system usability, quality, regulatory readiness, research, and evidence-based practice.
- Lead and implement systems that improve the clinician’s ability to care for patients, clinic workflows, and the patient experience.
- Lead improvement processes by systematically analyzing complex problems and present innovative solutions to clinicians and IT leaders.
- Lead collection, analysis, and presentation of data as a story to make concise recommendations to customers for simple and complex problems.
- Lead workflow development that support clinicians, patients, and organizational goals and strategic initiatives.
- Lead workflow design, testing, implementation, and support of clinical applications.
- Lead investigation and analysis of issues, requests, and projects related to clinical applications.
- Lead and execute evaluations of user adoption of existing and newly implemented clinical applications.
- Lead and provide communications and updates to multiple levels of the organization.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree
- 7 plus years of experience in health care IT (or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education
- Demonstrated experience working with teams in the development and support of applications, and in implementing production systems in a healthcare organization
- Experience in project management methodology principles with ability to document key supportive deliverables.
- Demonstrated attention to detail, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills
- Clinical licensure
Preferred:
- Master of Science
- Health IT certification
- Familiar with health system processes, business process analysis, and technical support best practices.
- Epic certification
- Health informatics Degree or Certification
- Demonstrated experience in training clinical end-users of various levels of technical savvy
- Experience collecting user requirements, translating to system feature enhancements, and requesting enhancements
- Knowledge oncology patient care services
- Knowledge of patient care operations in outpatient or acute care and/or research setting.
- Knowledge of TJC, DOH, and other regulatory requirement
The annual base salary range for this position is from $109,700.00 to $173,347.00, and pay offered will be based on experience and qualifications.
This position is full time-salaried, eligible for remote work.
This position is not eligible for H-1B sponsorship at this time.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center offers employees a comprehensive benefits package designed to enhance health, well-being, and financial security. Benefits include medical/vision, dental, flexible spending accounts, life, disability, retirement, family life support, employee assistance program, onsite health clinic, tuition reimbursement, paid vacation (12-22 days per year), paid sick leave (12-25 days per year), paid holidays (13 days per year), paid parental leave (up to 4 weeks).
