Clinical Informatics Analyst

Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center is an 881-bed quaternary care academic medical center that is a joint venture between Baylor College of Medicine and CHI St. Luke’s Health. Located in the Texas Medical Center, the hospital is the home of the Texas Heart® Institute, a cardiovascular research and education institution founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD. The hospital was the first facility in Texas and the Southwest designated a Magnet® hospital for Nursing Excellence by the American Nurses Credentialing Center, receiving the award five consecutive times. Baylor St. Luke’s also has three community emergency centers offering adult and pediatric care for the Greater Houston area.

The Clinical Informatics Analyst applies informatics knowledge and expertise, clinical, operational experience, critical thinking, and leadership skills to facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to advocate for and support our regional clinicians and executives to increase clinical system efficiency, expand technology utilization, fosterinnovation, reduce barriers to access clinical systems, facilitate clinical system design and implementation, provide information to generate insights that improve decisions, achieve better outcomes, advance regional strategies, and promote quality care. The position will work with regional and national Informatics teams to provide domain knowledge, when needed, for education/training, at-the-elbow support, and troubleshooting standard issues. In addition, this role works collaboratively with diverse teams (i.e., Operations, Revenue Cycle, and Information Technology) at multiple levels of the organization to achieve the system objectives.

Responsibilities:
Engage with Clinicians to enhance their Efficiency and Productivity by reducing barriers to complete and efficient documentation, improving charge capture, streamlining workflow, and reducing waste.

Enhance the usability of our clinicians electronic platforms to decrease the burden and reduce variability.

Participate in the Design and  support of effective and regulatory-compliant content, Clinical Decision support, and reporting/metrics to provide insight and enhance clinical and operational outcomes.
Advocate for the needs of our Regional Stakeholders, representing their needs across the organization and improving their experience with the technology they utilize by supporting optimization, build, and leading change preparedness efforts.
Oversee, enhance, and steward the clinical systems downtime tools and clinician downtime readiness.
Remain proficient in using all CommonSpirit Health-specific applications supported by the Clinical Informatics team.
Participates in assigned committees or workgroups to serve as an Informatics resource.
Analyze and interpret data using statistical methods, data mining techniques, and visualization tools to identify trends, patterns, and insights.
Analyze existing workflows and identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness through the use of technology.

Coordinate projects with Information Technology (IT) to ensure effective integration of clinical systems with other institutional applications.
Assess and document technology requirements, make priority recommendations, and advise on possible options, risks, and costs.
Ensure the implementation of electronic records support and enhance patient care through the facilitation of workflow processes.

Required:

Associates degree 

Minimum of 2 years clinical, healthcare or informatics related experience

Preferred:

Bachelor's degree In Computer Science, MIS, Health Administration, Business or other related field

Minimum of 2 years of Informatics experience and Minimum of 5 years clinical or healthcare related experience
- Informatics training

Required Certifications:

EHR Clinical Informatics Certification, if applicable by vendor, within one year (12 months) of hire.