Client: Children's Hosp of Philadelphia
Health Informatics Specialist III
Type: Contract (W2)
Length: 1 Year
Location: Fully Remote
Industry: Healthcare (Pediatrics)
We're seeking an experienced Health Informatics Specialist III to support enterprise‑level clinical and operational initiatives across a major pediatric healthcare system. This role partners with clinical, business, and DTS teams to design, implement, optimize, and evaluate clinical and non‑clinical information systems.
A major focus is virtual care, including telehealth, remote patient monitoring, workflow redesign, and capability transfer to internal teams.
Required Skills
- Telehealth implementation
- Remote patient monitoring
- Clinical workflow redesign
- Requirements gathering
- Healthcare operations
- Facilitation skills
- Capability transfer: mentoring EHI team members, creating reusable templates, developing workflow standards, documenting lessons learned, training internal resources
Preferred Experience
- 5+ years nursing/clinical/operational experience
- 3+ years informatics experience
- Progressive leadership
- Complex workflow support (nursing, interprofessional care, revenue cycle, patient access, ancillary services, scheduling/throughput)
- Epic experience
- Ambulatory + pediatric operations
- Digital patient engagement, virtual nursing, hospital‑at‑home, AI‑enabled virtual care
- Consumer digital health strategy
Strategic Work: current‑state assessments, future‑state design, virtual care roadmap, governance, KPIs
Tactical Work: workflow mapping, stakeholder interviews, business process analysis, vendor evaluation, implementation planning
Implementation: design sessions, Epic build support, operational readiness, testing, adoption/optimization
Key Responsibilities
- Act as liaison between DTS and clinical/operational teams
- Lead unit‑level teams and support enterprise governance
- Analyze DTS solutions for clinical, operational, and research impact
- Communicate updates to stakeholders and present findings
- Support downtime workflows and EHR reconciliation
- Standardize processes using evidence‑based and regulatory‑aligned methods
- Perform gap analyses, risk/benefit assessments, and testing
- Document current/future state workflows
- Serve as consultant for complex process improvement initiatives
- Ensure integration across Epic modules and track project progress
- Support data quality, decision‑support tools, and auditing processes
- Participate in Epic vendor visits
- Support nursing research, training materials, and ongoing system education
- Engage in scholarly activities (publications, presentations, posters)
Education
- Bachelor's Degree required