Highlights
The Health Informatics Specialist III is an experienced informatics nurse and internal consultant who partners with Clinical, Business, and Digital & Technology Services (DTS) teams to support the design, implementation, adoption, and interoperability of clinical and non-clinical information systems across the CHOP enterprise. The specialist participates in enterprise, capital, and operational projects, using process improvement and change management techniques to identify opportunities for harm and risk reduction, improve workflows and care delivery, and evaluate the effectiveness of integrated technologies.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Philadelphia, PA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Salary | $55–$56 Per Hour |
| Company Size | 5,000 to 9,999 employees |
| Year Founded | 2002 |
| Website | http://www.talentburst.com/ |
Description
Title: Health Informatics Specialist 3
Location: Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid)
Duration: 32 weeks
Shift : 8hrs days
Job Summary
The Health Informatics Specialist III is an experienced informatics nurse and internal consultant who partners with Clinical, Business, and Digital & Technology Services (DTS) teams to support the design, implementation, adoption, and interoperability of clinical and non-clinical information systems across the CHOP enterprise.
The specialist participates in enterprise, capital, and operational projects, using process improvement and change management techniques to identify opportunities for harm and risk reduction, improve workflows and care delivery, and evaluate the effectiveness of integrated technologies.
Capability Transfer: The consultant should not become the only person who understands virtual care. Responsibilities include mentoring EHI team members, creating reusable templates, developing workflow standards, documenting lessons learned, and training internal resources.
Job Responsibilities
Leadership
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Strategic Work
Additional Responsibilities
Process Improvement
Research & Education
Key Requirements
Location: Philadelphia, PA (Hybrid)
Duration: 32 weeks
Shift : 8hrs days
- Does not need to be a nurse; an informatics specialist is acceptable. However, a nurse is preferred.
- Epic ASAP and Inpatient experience required.
- Perioperative (Periop) and Ambulatory experience are a plus.
Job Summary
The Health Informatics Specialist III is an experienced informatics nurse and internal consultant who partners with Clinical, Business, and Digital & Technology Services (DTS) teams to support the design, implementation, adoption, and interoperability of clinical and non-clinical information systems across the CHOP enterprise.
The specialist participates in enterprise, capital, and operational projects, using process improvement and change management techniques to identify opportunities for harm and risk reduction, improve workflows and care delivery, and evaluate the effectiveness of integrated technologies.
Capability Transfer: The consultant should not become the only person who understands virtual care. Responsibilities include mentoring EHI team members, creating reusable templates, developing workflow standards, documenting lessons learned, and training internal resources.
Job Responsibilities
Leadership
- Serves as a liaison between Digital & Technology Services and nursing, providers, allied health, and non-clinical end users.
- Develops and maintains effective partnerships with clinical and operational leadership.
- Analyzes clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services to determine applicability to nursing and clinical practice, operational processes, administration, and research.
- Demonstrates excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Leads unit-level core and sub-teams for operational and implementation work.
- Consults with individuals and groups in defining healthcare information problems and identifies methods for implementing, utilizing, and modifying DTS solutions and data structures to support healthcare access, delivery, and evaluation.
- Works collaboratively with enterprise-wide governance and/or unit-level Nursing Shared Governance.
- Identifies the impact of clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services on clinical practice, education, business processes, and research.
- Communicates with key stakeholders, sponsors, and internal customers through presentations, project updates, and gathering input on enterprise and operational projects and initiatives.
- Serves as a preceptor for graduate informatics students.
- Partners for clinical communication and offers guidance on clinical workflow processes during downtime events and through EHR reconciliation.
- Demonstrates knowledge of system life cycles and complies with the defined framework for system implementation, including developing, reviewing, approving, and disseminating changes to clinical and non-clinical Digital & Technology Services.
- Operationalizes change using quality methodologies to standardize processes in accordance with current evidence, quality initiatives, regulatory compliance, and billing compliance.
- Develops risk/benefit matrices of alternative solutions to help clinical partners with decision-making.
- Recognizes the impact of changes on clinical and non-clinical systems to assure adoption across the system. Partners with education and communications.
- Collaborates with clinical partners to identify problems and document current-state and future-state workflows and requirements.
- Assists with project and operational testing.
- Performs gap analyses and works with clients to identify solutions to close identified gaps and mitigate risks.
- Telehealth implementation experience.
- Remote patient monitoring experience.
- Clinical workflow redesign.
- Requirements gathering.
- Healthcare operations.
- Facilitation skills.
- Capability transfer — the consultant should not become the only person who understands virtual care.
- Mentors EHI team members.
- Creates reusable templates.
- Develops workflow standards.
- Documents lessons learned.
- Trains internal resources.
- At least five (5) years of nursing, clinical, or operational experience.
- At least three (3) years of informatics experience.
- Evidence of progressive leadership skills.
- Experience supporting complex clinical and operational workflows, including but not limited to:
- Nursing and interprofessional care delivery.
- Revenue cycle and patient access processes.
- Ancillary and diagnostic services.
- Scheduling, capacity management, and throughput optimization.
- Epic experience.
- Ambulatory operations.
- Pediatric experience.
- Digital patient engagement.
- Change management.
- Virtual nursing.
- Hospital-at-home.
- AI-enabled virtual care.
- Consumer digital health strategy.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
Strategic Work
- Current-state assessments.
- Future-state workflow design.
- Virtual care roadmap development.
- Governance recommendations.
- KPI and outcome framework.
- Requirements gathering.
- Workflow mapping.
- Stakeholder interviews.
- Business process analysis.
- Vendor evaluation.
- Implementation planning.
- Facilitates design sessions.
- Supports Epic build decisions.
- Coordinates operational readiness.
- Participates in testing.
- Supports adoption and optimization.
Additional Responsibilities
Process Improvement
- Serves as a project consultant in the design and implementation of complex Digital & Technology Services process improvement projects.
- Demonstrates expert ability to work with internal customers, obtain what the customer requested, and complete the design through the following methods:
- Reviews and documents the current state.
- Documents requirements for the future state.
- Creates workflow recommendations for clients.
- Analyzes gaps between the current and future state and the software being implemented.
- Collaborates with other Epic modules when designing workflows to ensure integration points are accounted for.
- Liaises between the SAs and clinical and business teams.
- Tracks progress of the work being completed.
- Demonstrates understanding of data and data quality standards.
- Supports the integration of data, information, and knowledge applied to decision support and business intelligence tools (data warehousing).
- Develops auditing and review processes to ensure project goals and deliverables are met.
- Participates in Epic vendor visits and follow-up visits.
Research & Education
- Provides support to nursing research and assists clinical nurses in utilizing research and evidence-based practice.
- Assists with the development of training materials and provides ongoing support for clinical Digital & Technology Services.
- Participates in scholarly activities, including writing for publication and presenting a lecture, abstract, or poster at a national conference.
Key Requirements
- Epic ASAP and Inpatient experience required.
- Periop and Ambulatory experience are a plus.
- Capability Transfer: The consultant should not become the only person who understands their area of responsibility.
About Company
For over 20 years, TalentBurst Inc. has been an award-winning provider of cutting-edge Workforce Management Solutions. With a strong commitment to staying ahead in the tech landscape, we pioneer innovative approaches to talent acquisition. Our expertise spans Life Sciences, and Healthcare Staffing, Banking, Financial, IT, and Engineering, as well as Global Employer of Record (EOR), Agent of Record (AOR), State, Local Government and Education (SLED), and IC validation/compliance services. Additionally, our division, TalentProcure, leads the industry with offerings such as High Hazard Payroll, Managed Services, and Vendor on Premise (VOP) solutions.
Due to our prioritization of excellent standards, we are Joint Commission Certified and are a certified Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) in the USA and Canada. Supporting over 130 Fortune 500 companies globally, we excel in navigating the landscape of talent acquisition. In a world of constant change, we embrace developing people-centric solutions that address the unique demands of our clients. Stay connected by visiting our website and following us on social media!