Clinical Informatics Nurse

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Clinical Informatics Nurse

Description:

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Helps identify the clinical data requirements of the patients across the Healthcare System, as it relates to Quality and Safety. Help coordinate the advancement of clinical information systems to satisfy these data requirements
• Creates guidelines for vendor demonstrations in order to most efficiently use our resources.
• Creates and chairs a "Physicians Informatics Committee" to represent Hospital, Clinic, and Affiliated practitioners.
• Creates inpatient and outpatient "Nursing And Therapist Informatics Committees. These clinical committees will act as "sounding boards" for products (e.g. screen designs and implementation plans) from the Information Services Transition Teams, as well as sources of ideas to be implemented by these Implementation Teams.
• Works with representatives from these three committees and others to create and maintain a unified data dictionary for the enterprise.
• Applies information technology to Medical Education in order to assist the Residency Programs and clinicians.
• Advocate for patients' needs and rights pertaining to the Healthcare System's clinical information systems, including issues of confidentiality of medical information.
• Acts as the clinical representative in the "Program Managers Office" for the new Healthcare System's clinical information systems.
• Participates in clinically relevant Transition Teams (e.g. MPI, CDR, Orders, Ancillaries, Scheduling, etc....) Leads (with the Manager of Medical Records) the Medical Record functions, including record quality, record access, record content, and Medical Records policies and procedures.
• Develops and implements strategies to move the Healthcare System toward a fully integrated computerized patient record.
• Educates clinicians and patients across the enterprise about plans for the new information systems and relevant Informatics issues (e.g. data security). This will be done through newsletter articles and meetings. Demonstrates the benefits of the new systems to clinicians.
• Sets up a "Clinicians Hot-line" (mail, voice-mail, and email) to answer questions, concerns, and to solicit ideas.
• Identifies other applications that may help physicians assimilate information technology into their daily practice (e.g. On-line Medical Textbooks, Medline Literature Searches, Email, remote access, etc....) Assists in the development and maintenance of the Healthcare System's Web Sites in order to advance the notion that the Healthcare System is technologically superior.

Requirements:

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES REQUIRED

• Current licensure from Massachusetts BORN.
• Masters Degree in Nursing, Education or Research.
• Five years of clinical experience.
• Strong initiative; analytical; effective organization, communication, and planning skills.
• Ability to grasp technical information and to attend to detail.
• Meditech background and additional IS experience.

Education: Master's Degree Required
Department: Quality & Patient Safety