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Clinical Informatics Specialist II - Women & Children's Services

Evergreen Health
Full-time
On-site
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Wage Range: $85,696 - $137,093 per year

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Position Specifics
This role supports Women and Children’s services by optimizing Epic Stork workflows across inpatient and ambulatory settings. The position ensures safe, efficient, and accurate maternal-child health documentation, including fetal monitoring integration and coordinated care across the continuum. Ideal candidates will have clinical experience in OB workflows (L&D, postpartum, NICU, pediatrics, prenatal, or outpatient OB/GYN), and will collaborate closely with providers, nurses, and ancillary staff. Strong knowledge of obstetric documentation, interdisciplinary workflows, and Epic build/testing is essential, along with experience integrating OB-specific devices and systems.

Job Summary
Functions as a liaison between EvergreenHealth’s clinical areas and the IT department. This includes the primary responsibility of determining the needs and requirements for clinical applications in acute, ambulatory and home care settings. Works with staff and physicians to optimize the usage of clinical systems through education and training, quality outcomes, and providing support in accordance with organizational goals. Performs workflow analysis of multidisciplinary healthcare provider activities, and translates into optimal system design and content for organizational and unit-based practice.

Primary Duties

Works with users to define system requirements for content (data elements) and successful integration into workflow.

Performs workflow analysis of multidisciplinary healthcare provider activities and translates into optimal system design and content for organizational and unit-based practice.

Leads, facilitates, and consults with multidisciplinary healthcare provider work teams in the specification and design of the EMR for order management, clinical data repository, documentation, clinical pathways, and clinical and operational decision support.

Develops unit, functional and integration test plans; conducts and reports results of application, system and performance testing.

Conducts formal and informal staff and provider training and assists with monitoring competencies regarding use of the Electronic Medical Records (EMR).

Works with educational resources to develop training curriculum and end-user documentation and learning aids.

Acts as an expert resource to staff by anticipating and identifying educational, procedural and functional problems associated with the implementation of the EMR.

Applies change management principles during the implementation of the EMR and assists staff in making the transition from current to automated systems processes.

Monitors system impact on user and departmental workflows and incorporates results into system enhancements.

Works with clinicians from all departments to identify areas where clinical information systems can effectively support and enhance their clinical process.

Provides onsite and remote support to clinicians and others during application implementations and as needed. Works closely with Information Technology Customer Support services to provide efficient and responsive support to end user staff.

Serves as the primary contact and mentor, along with other members of the Clinical Informatics Team, for the clinical information systems super users across all departments.

Facilitates interdepartmental communications and acts as a liaison between the IT department and other departments within the health system.

Prepares educational materials, newsletters and other supportive documentation for users on an ongoing basis. Maintains current and accurate documentation for users. Participates in departmental meetings to provide ongoing education and assist in issue resolution.

Coordinates the improvement of clinician documentation through a variety of methods such as job aids, training, and quality improvement strategies for clinical staff.

Trains, educates, and instructs clinical users on features, operation, and usage of software systems.

Manages, troubleshoots, applies resolution and provides prompt feedback to end users on Service Requests.

Participates proactively in issue prevention and problem resolution through effective use of assessment, evaluation, planning and communication. Takes call on a rotating basis as necessary for after-hours user support.

Develops and communicates change control procedures and clinical updates for the EMR.

Monitors system performance, and reports to IT when anomalies, errors, inaccuracies, or inefficiencies occur. Makes recommendations as needed.

Responsible for assigned tasks within the specification of the project management schedule for maintenance of various applications throughout their life-cycle (implementation, upgrades, etc.).

Performs other duties as assigned.

License, Certification, Education or Experience
REQUIRED for the position:

Bachelor’s degree in Healthcare and/or Information Sciences or Licensed Healthcare professional (RN, RT, PT, etc.)

Five years of direct work experience in an acute care, ambulatory or home care setting

Medical terminology and understanding of workflows

Must be proficient and have a strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, etc.)

Knowledge of Epic

Adept at persuading and training physicians and staff to adopt new workflows and tools, requiring strong knowledge of change management

Knowledge of adult learning and training methods

Ability to maintain confidentiality of all medical, financial, and legal information

Ability to complete work assignments accurately and in a timely manner

Ability to communicate effectively, with excellent verbal and written communication skills

Ability to handle difficult situations involving patients, physicians, or others in a professional manner

Ability to work independently, exercise creativity, and maintain a positive attitude

Ability to manage multiple and simultaneous responsibilities and to prioritize scheduling of work

Strong and sound competency in mapping real-life nursing and physician practices to informatics applications

Strong knowledge of systems analysis, workflow planning, gathering business requirements and transforming them into functional specifications

Broad knowledge of healthcare operations and associate technologies

Ability to read and understand technical manuals, procedural documentation, and healthcare guides

Excellent ability to translate technical terminology for consumption by non-technical audiences

Good familiarity with project management, quality assurance, and information systems design

Awareness of current IT security standards, applicable privacy laws, Joint Commission accreditation standards

Ability to lead and recommend documentation strategy changes to meet current safety and quality trends

Desired

Proficiency with Epic EMR applications

Bachelor’s degree in healthcare and/or Information Sciences

Benefits

Medical, vision and dental insurance

On-demand virtual health care

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Life and disability insurance

Retirement plans (457(b) and 401(a) with employer contribution)

Tuition assistance for undergraduate and graduate degrees

Federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program

Paid Time Off/Vacation

Extended Illness Bank/Sick Leave

Paid holidays

Voluntary hospital indemnity insurance

Voluntary identity theft protection

Voluntary legal insurance

Pay in lieu of benefits premium program

Free parking

Commuter benefits

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