Manager Clinical Informatics

* Communicates to staff the critical role they play in achieving Lurie Children’s mission and strategic goals.  + Assists CMIO Office with organizational change initiatives; manages and supports staff in adapting to a rapidly changing health care environment.
* Facilitates development and achievement of professional & personal goals for self and staff.
* Recruits, orients, develops & retains a talented and diverse workforce.
* Informatics liaison to Clinical Applications teams. Ensures appropriate CI review and representation to support clinical changes to the EHR. Coordinates CI review of Epic Quarterly Update activities, including Nova notes and Provider Training portfolio.
* Analyzes and evaluates data independently to identify trends for potential areas of improvement with creation of targeted action plans for optimizing performance and utilization of key clinical informatics tools.
* Manages and supports the performance improvement efforts of the clinical teams utilizing and leveraging the clinical informatics tools to further support improved efficiency and provider experience in the use of our informatics tools.
* Assists in the coordination, implementation, execution, control, and completion of Clinical Informatics projects ensuring consistency with organizational strategy, commitments, and goals.
* Develops an outcomes assessment program to monitor the impact of individual informatics interventions and uses the analysis to refine and improve the intervention and/or clinical workflow.
* Collaborates with organization leadership on accountability for quality reporting, regulatory compliance, patient safety and workflow efficiencies.
* Collaborates with HIM, Risk, Legal, Compliance, and Accreditation Readiness teams to maintain knowledge of Joint Commission, CMS and other relevant regulatory requirements and provides advice regarding information system impact on meeting regulatory standards.
* Applies strong analytical skills to gather information from users, define work problems and develop improvements supported by technology, including measurement of outcomes related to the intervention.
* Collaborates with Data Insights & AI to utilize data to provide new information on clinical care and develop new knowledge to transform care at the bedside.
* Provides consultation and support for patient safety and quality improvement projects involving the use of electronic clinical informatics tools. Ensures effective use of clinical informatics resources in partnership with Center of Quality and Safety.
* Promotes use of available functionality within Lurie Children’s EHR to ensure that the clinical data display at the user interface promotes providers and clinicians making the best evidence-based clinical decisions.
* Collaborates with Epic Training Team on the tools and resources available to help clinicians effectively use the EHR. Supports the dissemination of resources through the CMIO Office.
* Serves as an expert in the design and implementation of EHR interventions to optimize capture of clinical data during routine workflow and utilizing the data to inform and improve practice.
* Communicates effectively with all members of the health care team and leadership.
* Conducts, coordinates, and publishes research in health care informatics and seeks opportunities to collaborate with peer organizations throughout the country.
* Supports dissemination of scholarly output in the form of presentations, posters, and publications.
* Performs job functions adhering to service principles with customer service focus of innovation, service excellence and teamwork to provide the highest quality care and service to our patients, families, co-workers, and others.
* Other job functions as assigned.
* Bachelor’s degree in healthcare related discipline.  Master’s degree or higher in Healthcare Administration, Clinical Informatics or related field strongly preferred.
* Minimum of 5 years of experience in a healthcare setting.
* Demonstrated knowledge of electronic health record technology and prior experience in implementing interventions to influence clinician behavior, improve quality and patient safety and reduce costs. …