Employment Type:

Full time

Shift:

Day Shift

Description:

Health Informatics (HI) is the specialty that integrates health care science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, knowledge and wisdom in clinical practice across the care continuum. Health informatics facilitates the integration of data, information, knowledge and wisdom to support patients and the health care team, in their decision-making in all roles and settings. This support is accomplished with information structures, information processes, and information technology.

The goal of informatics is to improve the health of populations, communities, families, and individuals by optimizing information management and communication. These activities include the design and use of informatics solutions and technology to support all areas of health care delivery, including, but not limited to, the direct provision of care, establishing effective administrative systems, managing and delivering education experiences, enhancing lifelong learning, and supporting health care research.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Knows, understands, incorporates, and demonstrates the Trinity Health Mission, Vision, and Values in behaviors, practices, and decisions.

Executes position responsibilities that demonstrate leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care.

The Health Informatics Specialist I:

Demonstrates informatics knowledge/judgment in the delivery of informatics roles and responsibilities.

Supports informatics practice and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities.

Functions as an internal consultant in evaluating programs, resources, and services.

Assists with systematically evaluating current workflow and formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise.

Utilizes professional standards of care, scientific evidence, and practice to evaluate health care programs across the care continuum.

Monitors outcome and evaluates user adoption of current and newly implemented health information technology and functionality.

Leads/facilitates/attends focus groups and meetings as needed to strategize workflow issues.

Applies knowledge, data, information and workflow in the development of evidence-based models for health information technology solutions.

Participates in implementation of clinical information and management systems.

Understands system requirements and integrate them into development of health information technology systems as applicable.

Establishes processes and mechanisms that obtain and respond to clinician feedback.

Illustrates the impact of personal health records, patient-supplied data, patient portals and other patient-enabling technologies on clinical care.

Integrates quality improvement and safety enhancing methodologies and tools in order to improve workflow processes, changes in health information technology, regulations, standards and evidence in a healthcare setting.

Applies appropriate methods of identifying information, business and technical requirements to meet user complex and unique health information and technology needs.

Other duties as needed and assigned by the Manager, Regional Director or Medical Director, Health Informatics.

Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State, and local laws and regulations, Trinity Health’s Organizational Integrity Program, Standards of Conduct, as well as other policies and procedures in order to ensure adherence in a manner that reflects honest, ethical, and professional behavior.

Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.

Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.