JOB SUMMARY / PURPOSE
The Market Director Clinical Informatics reporting to the Region Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (CCIO), plays a pivotal leadership role in informing the strategic planning and the implementation of new functionalities at the market level. The Market Director will focus on supporting clinical integration and delivering project outcomes. This role is accountable for implementing programs and optimization requests to drive performance improvement through the deployment and utilization of new and existing clinical Health IT systems. Will be accountable to develop and lead programs that manage and integrate clinical systems, thereby enhancing patient safety, workflow efficiency and functionality, ensuring effective communication of clinical information across the care continuum, and maintaining data integrity. Provides expert consultation to senior business leaders at the market level such as hospital COO, CFO, CMO, CNO, CMIO, Medical Group Presidents, Executive Directors, and Medical Staff Leadership to promote improved quality of patient care. Keeps current with changes and trends in the Informatics, Training, and Healthcare IT arena with a strong commitment to lifelong learning.
*Although remote, this role necessitates regular travel to facilities across Nebraska. Applicants must live within Nebraska.
ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leads market clinical informatics plans, data analysis, and serves as a champion for clinical projects and systems that support efficiency and effectiveness for end users, with the primary goal of advancing evidence-based practice.
- Leads the implementation of market level clinical systems in collaboration with administration, physicians, nurses, ancillary, staff departmental teams, informatics staff, IT staff, corporate staff, System Clinical Informatics staff and third party consultants and educators.
- Oversee the implementation of market-level clinical systems in collaboration with administration, physicians, nurses, ancillary staff, departmental teams, informatics staff, IT staff, system clinical informatics staff, and third-party consultants and educations.
- Provide oversight and direction to processes related to maintaining and improving application standards for architecture and required workflow adoption by end users.
- Direct a team of expert informaticists in consultative activities with key business owners across the region to define new IT solution requirements aimed at performance improvement and quality of care. Ensure the clinical content within the electronic record supports both clinical and business needs region and market-wide.
- Develop, manage, and monitor specific metrics in collaboration with regional quality and safety leadership. Provide clinical and business leaders with benefits realization, ROI definition, baseline and post-implementation metrics, and reporting. Oversee metric performance to assess the status of the market.
- Identify areas for performance improvement in clinical applications that can be integrated into new system development. Act as a business sponsor for new changes and model effective change management strategies. Serve as a role model for innovation in healthcare, setting appropriate targets for professional development within the regional clinical informatics team.
- Ensure that the customer perspective drives actions and business decisions. Develop and implement service practices that meet customer and organizational needs by improving change governance methods.
- Develop, refine, and communicate tactical plans for EHR Change Management in alignment with CommonSpirit Health's strategic and clinical goals.
- Direct and manage people, projects, and tasks collaboratively. Coach others to achieve optimal performance, delegate effectively, recognize contributions, define clear roles and responsibilities, set goals, lead initiatives, and adjust plans as necessary. Empower and share authority and responsibility with others while holding staff accountable.
