Equiliem is seeking a local contract nurse RN Clinical Informatics for a local contract nursing job in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Job Description & Requirements
- Specialty: Clinical Informatics
- Discipline: RN
- Duration: 13 weeks
- 40 hours per week
- Shift: 8 hours, days
- Employment Type: Local Contract
Health Informatics Specialist III
Position Summary
The Health Informatics Specialist III serves as a senior informatics consultant, partnering with clinical, operational, and IT teams to support the design, implementation, optimization, and adoption of healthcare technology solutions. This role is responsible for improving workflows, enhancing patient care delivery, reducing operational risk, and supporting enterprise-wide technology initiatives.
A key responsibility is ensuring knowledge transfer through mentoring, documentation, workflow standards, and training to support long-term organizational success.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement
- Serve as the liaison between IT, clinical, and operational teams.
- Build strong partnerships with healthcare and business leaders.
- Lead workflow analysis, solution design, and implementation initiatives.
- Facilitate stakeholder meetings, design sessions, and project updates.
- Provide guidance on clinical workflows, downtime procedures, and EHR reconciliation.
- Mentor team members and support internal capability development.
Process Improvement & Implementation
- Assess current-state workflows and identify improvement opportunities.
- Gather and document business and clinical requirements.
- Design future-state workflows and recommend best practices.
- Conduct gap analyses and develop risk mitigation strategies.
- Support testing, implementation planning, operational readiness, and adoption efforts.
- Collaborate with technical teams to ensure system integration and workflow alignment.
Change & Quality Management
- Support system implementations following established project methodologies.
- Standardize processes while ensuring regulatory and compliance requirements are met.
- Develop and evaluate solution options through risk-benefit analysis.
- Partner with education and communication teams to drive change adoption.
Data & Analytics
- Support data quality initiatives and reporting efforts.
- Utilize data and business intelligence tools to improve operational and clinical outcomes.
- Develop auditing and review processes to ensure project goals are achieved.
Education & Knowledge Transfer
- Create reusable templates, workflow standards, and documentation.
- Capture lessons learned and train internal resources.
- Assist with training material development and ongoing end-user support.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree.
- Minimum 3 years of Healthcare Informatics experience.
- Experience with Epic ASAP and Epic Inpatient applications.
- Strong understanding of clinical and operational healthcare workflows.
- Experience gathering requirements, workflow mapping, and business process analysis.
- Strong facilitation, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience supporting system implementations and process improvement initiatives.
Preferred Qualifications
- 5+ years of nursing, clinical, or healthcare operational experience.
- Demonstrated leadership experience.
- Experience supporting complex healthcare workflows, including:
- Inpatient care delivery
- Patient access and revenue cycle operations
- Ancillary and diagnostic services
- Scheduling, capacity management, and patient throughput
- Epic Perioperative (OpTime/Anesthesia) experience.
- Epic Ambulatory experience.
- Change management and organizational readiness experience.
- Experience conducting current-state assessments and future-state workflow design.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is an experienced healthcare informatics professional who can bridge clinical, operational, and technical teams while leading workflow optimization, Epic-related initiatives, and enterprise technology projects. Strong Epic ASAP and Inpatient experience is required, with Perioperative and Ambulatory experience considered a plus.