Senior Medical Informatics Analyst

CHI Saint Joseph Health is one of the largest and most comprehensive health systems in the Commonwealth of Kentucky supporting over 5,000 active team members, 8 hospitals, and a Medical Group with more than 200 locations across Central and Eastern Kentucky. 

At CHI Saint Joseph Health, we are dedicated to building healthier communities by elevating patient care through high quality healthcare professionals and Humankindness. We care about our team members well-being and offer benefits that complement work-life balance such as: 

CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians. 

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

The Senior Medical Informatics Analyst applies advanced informatics knowledge and expertise, clinical, operational experience, critical thinking, and leadership skills to lead a multidisciplinary approach to advocate for and support our regional providers and executives to increase clinical system efficiency, expand technology utilization, foster innovation, 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. This role will work as part of a larger team where each individual will have specific expertise/focus on areas such as Ambulatory Medicine, Oncology, Hospital Medicine, Surgery, OB/GYN, and Reporting. The position will work with regional and national Informatics teams to provide domain expertise, when needed, for education/training, at-the-elbow support, and troubleshooting complex issues. In addition, this position works collaboratively with diverse teams (i.e., Operations, Information Technology, Epic AMS, etc) at multiple levels of the organization to achieve the system objectives. The position may be responsible for planning, developing, and testing new technology functionality, including the technical build.

Essential Functions: 

• Lead initiatives with providers to enhance efficiency and productivity by reducing barriers to complete and efficient documentation, improving charge capture, streamlining workflow, and reducing waste.
• Identify opportunities to enhance the usability of our providers' electronic platforms to decrease the burden and reduce variability. Remove ineffective systems to increase provider utilization of our technology.
• 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 Providers, representing their needs across the organization and improving their experience with the technology they utilize by supporting optimization, build, and leading change preparedness efforts.
• Support and champion national initiatives from design through implementation by promoting and effecting provider readiness, application rationalization, and biomedical integration.
• Advocate, steward, and support executive initiatives and strategic growth while maintaining a clear line of sight for executive and provider clinical systems optimization requests.
• Oversee, enhance, and steward the clinical systems downtime tools and provider downtime readiness.
• Remain proficient in using all CommonSpirit Health-specific applications supported by the Medical Informatics team. Maintains accurate documentation within the Incident Management System to include a clear description of the problem, the steps utilized in problem-solving, and the final solution.
• 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.
• Perform statistical analysis of patient medical records.

• Bachelors and 4-6 years electronic health record or helathcare informatics related experience required. 
• Minimum of 5 years of informatics experience preferred.  
• Minimum of 7 years clinical or healthcare related experience preferred.  
• Masters Computer Science, MIS, Informatics Health Administration, or other related field preferred.