Anesthesia Information Systems Specialist
Assumes the day-to-day responsibility for integrating anesthesia preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative charting into operational practices with the focus on EPIC systems, workflow, and reporting functions. Other job responsibilities will include maintenance of anesthesia use of New Innovations and Productive Scheduling Solutions products as they relate to daily workflows.
Essential Job Functions:
- Supports the needs of the Anesthesia department through system maintenance, implementation, upgrades, and ongoing enhancements. This includes supporting reporting functions of those systems.
- Builds and maintains clinical systems through the institution of quality improvement strategies, setting and maintaining performance standards, setting up evaluations, and establishing goal setting.
- Participates in the development of informational technologies that utilizes patient and client data to support clinical decision-making in Anesthesia practice.
- Performs key system functions by collaborating with key stakeholders to support Anesthesia practice.
- Supports Anesthesia Leadership, IM and staff, the development, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of Anesthesia information systems.
- Advances Anesthesia clinical information systems through education by serving as a resource for Anesthesia staff regarding information systems.
- Measures and evaluates the outcomes of Anesthesia information systems.
- Provides for the technical build, implementation, and support for the application. This requires an understanding of current workflows of ordering and documenting.
- Co-leads design, build and validate sessions. This includes working with the team to investigate the preferred choices of the clinical operation team.
- Establishes change protocol procedures for the system. This includes prioritizing and implementing changes requested for the system.
- Coordinates activities of assigned projects or particular phases of a given project. Develop detailed work plans, timelines, and identifies appropriate resources needed and provides timely status reports.
- Responsible for projects within the specification of the project management schedule. Builds and maintains a catalog of decision points as it relates to the build of the system. Evaluates system utilization and performance through collecting information regarding potential system enhancement needs.
- Performs job functions adhering to service principles with customer service focus of innovation, service excellence and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service to our patients, families, co-workers and others.
- Other job functions as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Nursing from an accredited college or university.
- Current licensure as a registered nurse in the State of Illinois.
- Minimum of 5 years of nursing experience to include 1 year of leadership experience.
- Prior experience with automated clinical systems is desirable.
- Broad knowledge of health care information, documentation and office suite products.
- Able to handle multiple projects and support multiple systems.
Pay Range
$70,720.00-$115,627.20 Salary
At Lurie Children's, we are committed to competitive and fair compensation aligned with market rates and internal equity, reflecting individual contributions, experience, and expertise. The pay range for this job indicates minimum and maximum targets for the position. Ranges are regularly reviewed to stay aligned with market conditions. In addition to base salary, Lurie Children's offer a comprehensive rewards package that may include differentials for some hourly employees, leadership incentives for select roles, health and retirement benefits, and wellbeing programs.
Benefit Statement
For full time and part time employees who work 20 or more hours per week we offer a generous benefits package that includes:
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Employer paid group term life and disability
Employer contribution toward Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Accounts
Paid Time Off (PTO), Paid Holidays and Paid Parental Leave
403(b) with a 5% employer match
Various voluntary benefits:
- Supplemental Life, AD&D and Disability
- Critical Illness, Accident and Hospital Indemnity coverage
- Tuition assistance
- Student loan servicing and support
- Adoption benefits
- Backup Childcare and Eldercare
- Employee Assistance Program, and other specialized behavioral health services and resources for employees and family members
- Discount on services at Lurie Children's facilities
- Discount purchasing program
There's a Place for You with Us
At Lurie Children's, we embrace and celebrate building a team with a variety of backgrounds, skills, and viewpoints recognizing that different life experiences strengthen our workplace and the care we provide to the Chicago community and beyond. We treat everyone fairly, appreciate differences, and make meaningful connections that foster belonging. This is a place where you can be your best, so we can give our best to the patients and families who trust us with their care.
Lurie Children's and its affiliates are equal employment opportunity employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, order of protection status, protected genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.