Clinical Informatics Specialist - St. Luke's Health System

St. Luke’s Health System in Boise, ID is seeking a Clinical Informaticist to join our Ambulatory/Inpatient team.

What You Can Expect:

• Being part of a team that is highly motivated team doing interesting and challenging work
• Having flexible hours while still meeting organizational needs
• Working with clinical staff, IHT, and organizational leaders
• Creating technology approaches that lead St. Luke’s into the future

The Clinical Informaticist coordinates and monitors the analysis, design, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of clinical informatics applications and projects within the system specialty, population health areas and service line. This role will be filled with individuals from a variety of clinical backgrounds and provides a functional IT link between technical and clinical staff.

• Provides support by monitoring informatics issues or problems for the system and population health areas.
• Engages Nursing and Clinical leadership and facilitates support activities for members of the clinical team in coordination with the Application Training and Support Team.
• Coaches, mentors, and provides support for members of the clinical team in gaining and maintaining competency in use of technical systems.
• Synthesizes data, information, and knowledge to clarify informatics issues or problems; analyzes multiple approaches/solutions to the informatics issue or problem, develops a recommended informatics solution for the specific issue or problem, and manages the process for implementing the solution to the informatics issue or problem.
• Identifies, analyzes, prioritizes, redesigns, tests, and implements improvements to existing clinical information systems; participates in root cause analysis efforts related to clinical information systems.
• Develops and coordinates communication about future system changes, upgrades, and downtimes to clinical customers; develops and performs competency assessments related to clinician use of information systems, documents findings; designs and advises targeted training and remediation and evaluates effectiveness of interventions.
• Develops methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining clinical information system performance improvement results; considers factors related to safety, effectiveness, costs, and impact to patient care when problem-solving.
• Collaborates with Clinical Learning and Student Services in the development of curriculum and other resource materials; provides education for current and new customers.
• Collaborates with IHT analysts on complex issues and problems and refers only the most complex issues to higher-level staff.
• Collaborates with Informatics leadership and clinicians to identify problems and solutions for issues.
• Possesses comprehensive knowledge of subject matter; provides leadership, coaching, and/or mentoring; may act as a lead.
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Education: Masters degree
• Experience: 2 years relevant experience
• Licenses/Certifications: Must hold one of the following licenses consistent with professional preparation: RN License, Respiratory Therapist License, Occupational Therapist License, Physical Therapist License, Speech Language Physical Therapist License, Medical Technologist License, Licensed Clinical Social Worker

Preferred Qualifications:

• EPIC experience
• Healthcare experience
• Informatics experience