Health Informatics Specialist Job Description
Health informatics specialist
provides leadership and oversight of the Health Informatics governance process and related committee/workgroup activities to ensure appropriate integration across care-giver disciplines and patient care transitions in the development and maintenance of evidence-based clinical content in new or existing health information system applications, including by not limited to: ordering, clinical documentation, and clinical decision support systems.
Health Informatics Specialist Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Maintains working knowledge of organizational activities, applications, concepts and operational procedures
Must have knowledge of Clinical Information Systems and how it integrates with patient care
Support development of strategic direction for public health informatics within the enterprise
Provide leadership in CDPH projects involving public health informatics, with a focus on communicable disease, chronic disease, and community health
Establish working knowledge of specified transmission protocols, and high-level knowledge and utilization of applications which receive and house the data
Identify and develop grant opportunities to support public health informatics
Consults with management and staff regarding appropriate and practical use of automation as it relates to existing and proposed clinical and population health applications, leads systems analysis/selection efforts, and guides user support functions so as to optimally acquire and use systems
Collaborate with Application Managers and Directors to meet evolving user needs related to existing or anticipated applications
Actively participate in available education and training programs to increase understanding of assigned applications, technology, general information management and quality reporting programs requirements
Maintains continuously high levels of end user contact, attending relevant meetings, actively participates in organizational activities, and functions as a key contact and leader for Information Services to ensure communication, collaboration, and teamwork
Health Informatics Specialist Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Health Informatics Specialist
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: RN, BSN, BLS, GOLD, CPHIMS, HIMSS, ANCC, ITIL
Education for Health Informatics Specialist
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the health informatics specialist job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Education, Health Informatics, Nursing, Public Health, Statistics, Medical, Information Technology, Computer Science, Healthcare, Business
Skills for Health Informatics Specialist
Desired skills for health informatics specialist include:
Clinical Information Systems and how it integrates with patient care
Applications
Concepts and operational procedures
Organizational activities
Health Informatics
Related role and experience with clinical information systems and health information technology
Applicable Federal
Ethical
Local laws and regulations
Policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest
Desired experience for health informatics specialist includes:
Provide expertise in the integration of a variety of heterogeneous public health information systems and databases sharing and the dissemination of public health information
Provide expertise in the interaction of information security technology and the requirements for privacy and confidentiality of public health data
Provide expertise in the application of the HIPAA regulations to the use of information technology in public health
Provide expertise in new areas of interest to public health including the information available from managed care organizations
Provide expertise in the application of advanced scientific visualization technology to public health science and practice
Providing consultation on public health data visualization
Health Informatics Specialist Examples
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Health Informatics Specialist Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a health informatics specialist. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for health informatics specialist
- Provides On-Call support off hours
- Serves as a physician and nurse resource throughout assigned facility and entire division
- Facilitates required physician and nurse training
- Collaborates with other departments to meet physician and nurse educational needs
- Troubleshoots, offers guidance and resolves physician and nursing clinical systems issues
- Responds to physicians’ and nurses’ clinical systems issues as soon as possible, taking appropriates steps to resolve in a timely manner
- Assists in preparing policies and procedures, training materials, and provides any necessary information to physicians and nurses (including downtime and recovery procedures)
- Assists with pilot programs and all projects in collaboration with AHS-IS and the facility
- Facility Project Lead for projects rolled out by AHS-IS to the facility
- Expert in computer science, information technology, clinical decision support, physician and nursing clinical workflow and processes
Qualifications for health informatics specialist
- Integrates medical science, nursing science, and information science to identify, acquire, preserve, manage, retrieve, aggregate, analyze and transmit information to make it meaningful and useful to clinical practice
- Identifies clinical practice workflow and process improvement opportunities
- Provides leadership and guidance to improve system performance and technology utilization by physician and nurses and other clinicians
- Supports physicians, nurses, and other clinicians by providing continuous support, troubleshooting, and identifying opportunities for clinical information system improvements
- Supports efforts related to the implementation, maintenance, and optimization of Cerner/CPOE (Computer Provider Order Entry)
- Actively participates in training, process improvement, workflows, communication, education, implementation of various projects, and is often the facility project lead
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a health informatics specialist. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for health informatics specialist
- Passionate about informatics transformation in a changing environment
- Understands clinical workflows, report analysis, metrics, medical terminology, and understands electronic order entry management in a hospital environment
- Exhibits exceptional communication skills
- Displays strong Clinical Information System knowledge and understanding
- Adept at presenting information to trainees in a variety of ways to meet individual learning needs
- Creative about the training process
- Able to adapt to end user training needs
- Flexible to the scheduling needs of physicians and nurses and provides support off-hours including call as needed
- Will be responsible for knowing how departments relate to one another and processes flow in between departments
- Ability to collaborate with other team members on projects, issue resolution, training, and outcomes
Qualifications for health informatics specialist
- Ability to explain, support, and follow recommended workflows and processes
- Active listening skills to fully understand and interpret medical terminology
- PowerInsight Build
- Cerner Patient Accounting
- Cypress Web
- Citrix Download
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of health informatics specialist. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for health informatics specialist
- Ability to connect physicians to physician network
- Dynamic Docs
- Physician Playbooks
- PowerPlans
- Interdisciplinary Plans of Care (IPOC)
- Medication Positive Patient Identification (MPPID)
- Biomedical Device Integration (BMDI)
- Computer Provider Order Entry (CPOE)
- IView documentation
- Health Information Exchange (HIE)
Qualifications for health informatics specialist
- B.A or B.S and 1 year of experience with a hospital based Electronic Medical Record or an Associate’s Degree in Nursing and 1 year of experience with a hospital based Electronic Medical Record
- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Informatics (preferred)
- Cerner Training (preferred)
- Current Registered Nursing Licensure in the State of Florida if Associates Degree in Nursing has been obtained
- Current Registered Nursing Licensure in the State of Florida
- Strong financial background including planning/forecasting, financial analysis/modeling and cost/benefit analysis
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of health informatics specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health informatics specialist
- Provides leadership and direction in coordinating all aspects of planning, design, development, implementation and evaluation of information technology projects that impact clinical departments and clinical information systems
- Leads and participates in system wide multidisciplinary workgroups to identify opportunities for optimization of complex workflows, improved patient outcomes and incorporating evidence based practice in clinical information systems
- As Education Coordinator, evaluates and develops the educational curriculum, training materials, training teams and training plan for end-users of clinical information systems
- Perform client-specific analysis demonstrating the financial and clinical impact of wellness strategies by leveraging data analysis methods at various levels of complexity
- Conduct ad hoc analysis by synthesizing data into meaningful information, enabling our clients and internal partners make better decisions regarding the health and well-being of our customers
- Act as a resource, subject matter expert and partner for internal partners across the enterprise
- Engage and collaborate with system administrators for databases such as surveillance systems, health information exchanges, administrative databases, and the CDPH electronic medical record (EMR)
- Participate actively in the electronic medical record (EMR) system implementation and improvement
- Manage medical informatics IT project lifecycle processes related to the EHR including translating requests from leadership and applying specific clinical, population health and/or analytical knowledge and expertise to develop clinical workflows and directly implementing or working with application teams to implement solutions
- Provides a variety of training concepts, practices, and procedures
Qualifications for health informatics specialist
- Minimum of 4 years of Financial/Clinical Experience in the managed care industry or Public Health Care
- Proven experience in managing multiple priorities and agility in adapting to change
- Proven skill in understanding individual market dynamics (healthcare providers, employers, and competitors, skill/experience in quality/payment innovation programs, health plan performance, ) to set strategies/tactics to achieve both cost and quality objectives
- 3+ years clincal patient care experience within an EMR environment required
- Two or more years of experience in an analyst or related role in a business, government or nonprofit setting strongly preferred
- Bachelor’s degree in business, mathematics, statistics, or other related field preferred
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Health Informatics Specialist Job Description
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Our growing company is hiring for a health informatics specialist. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for health informatics specialist
- Able to monitor and report the frequency and effectiveness of these end user training efforts
- Develops and maintains expertise in CMS Risk Adjustment
- Works with senior team members to build and maintain predictive modeling to support program analysis
- Develops Ad Hoc reports, as needed, for the Risk Adjustment team, providing guidance and recommendations on best practices
- Provides deep dive analysis of trends across all programs within the Risk Adjustment organization
- Conducts or participates in complex financial analysis projects and/or reporting related to prospective and retrospective risk adjustment programs
- Presents results and recommendations to Risk Adjustment and Health Services leadership
- Improves current risk adjustment analytics and develops new methodologies for measuring risk adjustment results under the direction of Analytics Director and Risk Adjustment leadership
- Develops an intermediate level of expertise in CMS Risk Adjustment
- Develops Ad Hoc reports, as needed, for the Risk Adjustment team
Qualifications for health informatics specialist
- Highly organized, yet willing to be flexible as the ITCA high school program changes as it grows
- Willing to work with students and parents from a variety of socioeconomic and educational backgrounds
- Experience using SAS, SQL or other related application to convert data into meaningful information strongly preferred
- Ability to partner with colleagues on cross-functional teams required
- College, University Bachelor or above
- Advanced IT Certificate or equivalent in information and electrical engineering