Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Clinical Informatics Manager
Position summary: The Clinical Informatics Manager provides quality support in Information Systems (IS) Department including being accountable for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the Department, including management of human, financial, and material resources to ensure that the needs of the hospital are met, ensuring high quality patient care and service, and promotion of excellent customer service. Also, providing analysis, design, development, maintenance and modification of operation including the EMR system.
Essential Duties/Tasks/Responsibilities:
- Leadership
- Develops and implements short- and long-term decisions (present – 1 year) for own team.
- Develops Human Resource and operational plans that align and support department services and organizational strategic priorities.
- Ensures all functions of payroll are completed as required.
- Maintains regular communication and collaboration with other departments.
- Completes and manages department budget including the creation of operating and capital plans.
- Monitors and analyzes department metrics and trends and develops appropriate actions.
- Champions and establishes an inclusive, diverse and supportive environment.
- Leads, coaches, mentors and develops direct reports.
- Takes swift and appropriate action when performance of direct reports is not aligned with organizational values.
- Ensures that department policies, procedures, systems and accountability measures are in place.
- Clinical and Professional Practice Support
- Responsible for conducting needs assessments and workflow analysis to plan for the design of the electronic health record.
- Responsible for the planning and organization of the clinical content required for the integration of the clinical information systems.
- Responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of electronic documentation, and responsible for the training and support of clinical staff in the use of the applications
- Responsible for the coordination of corporate education for clinical staff related to the electronic health record.
- Demonstrates clinical knowledge and competence regarding the assessment, planning and interventions associated with patient care.
- Responsible for ensuring compliance with all policies, procedures, standards and regulations.
- Responsible for policy and procedure development to support orders and clinical documentation applications.
- Responsible to collaborate with Quality and Risk Management to implement clinical error prevention strategies and reporting tools.
- Provides clinical leadership, management and support for the design, implementation and evaluation of the clinical information systems.
- Plans and facilitates processes to support nurses and other disciplines to develop content for clinical documentation tools (assessments, flowsheets, care plans & patient education tools).
- Coaches and mentors staff to support the integration of the electronic health record.
- Supports and facilitates the inter-professional patient care team to provide coordinated, safe, quality care and service for the patients.
- Models positive acceptance towards change, supports others to adapt to change.
- Collaborate with external health agencies, academic institutions and organizations to support clinical information technologies.
- Collaborates with the Information Technology team to ensure the appropriate technology solutions and infrastructure are positioned to support Physician and Clinical workflow.
- Collaborates with Analytics team to utilize data from the electronic health record to inform program improvements for positive clinical outcomes.
- Responsible for providing an environment that promotes continuous learning and professional staff development.
- Collaborates with Managers of other departments to ensure that the necessary equipment and materials are available for staff to carry out their roles and that equipment is in good repair.
- Maintain current knowledge of best practices and benchmarks of services and implement improvements/changes as appropriate.
Job Tags
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