Lead, Clinical Informatics

**JOB SUMMARY**:
Reporting to the Director, Digital Health and Informatics, the Clinical Informatics Lead works closely with ACE Project Leadership, Professional Practice and IMIT to promote and lead the integration of electronic health records (EHR) with clinical change initiatives to enhance evidence-based clinical practices. This position works to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, accountability, and sustainability of these initiatives by providing both clinical informatics and professional practice leadership. The Lead also manages a team of nursing/allied informatics specialists and has primary responsibility to the ACE Project, but also consults across the organization for a broader regional context.

**TYPICAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Provides clinical informatics leadership to ensure information technology design and future state workflows provide the best opportunities to support and transform clinical practice, education, administration, and research across the continuum of care and across specified programs and/or specialties within IH.
- Leads broad groups of partners across the organization to identify clinical and business requirements. Facilitates consensus, consults, negotiates, and shares information to achieve comprehensive clinical enhancements and transformations that address the needs and strategic directions of the program/speciality area. Communicates the benefits, obligations, responsibilities, and changes in processes and ensures questions and concerns are addressed in order to achieve buy-in. Recommends prioritization for requests requiring resourcing.
- Drives best practice and best clinical outcomes for the assigned Nursing/Allied Health portfolio by collaborating with the Professional Practice Office and partners to lead design that meets organizational requirements and is based on best evidence and professional standards. Works with program/specialty and site leadership to facilitate the implementation of workflow improvements pertaining to clinical practice changes; and to establish new or revised policies, procedures, protocols, training, and clinical processes affected by the clinical information system transformation.
- Leads, collaboratively with the program/specialty and unit leadership, the process to ensure readiness for implementation and supports change management and learning strategies. Applies and provides informatics expertise to the development and operationalization of a framework to manage, govern, and sustain clinical content. Supports the development of flexible and sustainable education and training strategies to gain commitment to implemented processes.
- Enhances clinical adoption by supporting the post-implementation assessment process. Reviews design and usage of information systems with a view to maximize the benefits and to increase patient safety. Evaluates and monitors success to ensure effective implementation of current and future quality initiatives and system improvements. Participates in the development of future state clinical content, workflows, and all necessary linkages to recommend appropriate clinical decision support interventions and future state workflows.
- Provides project management for the assigned Nursing/Allied portfolio including facilitating consensus with partners; executing project plans; tracking and reporting on progress and major issues; making recommendations for changes to project scope; and ensuring project deliverables and timelines are met. Acts as a resource to ACE project manager, ACE project teams and other staff.
- Contributes to the implementation of effective processes to identify and assess project risks and identify risk mitigation strategies. Monitors risk throughout the life cycle of the project, provides detailed analysis of situations considering operational and clinical risk, and escalates to clinical and other leaders as necessary.
- Supervises team, establishing clear definitions of responsibility for each team member; reviews workload assignments and adjusts resources according to workload. Determines work expectations. Provides coaching where required.
- Collaborates with the Professional Practice and IMIT Department and other organizational programs/departments and partner affiliates on system-wide practice and workflow change initiatives, practice innovation and redesign, documentation/nomenclature standards, and electronic health records.
- Performs other related duties as assigned.

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