Meditech Coordinator; RN

Raleigh General Hospital
Meditech Coordinator, (RN) - OR

Job Type: Full Time Days

Job Location Type:
In-Person

Raleigh General Hospital is part of Lifepoint Health , a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Registered Nurse, RN joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier . Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

• Promote the mission, vision, and values of the organization.
• Use research and evidence-based practice, guidelines, standards, regulations, and principles of safety to implement the perioperative information technology plan and develop perioperative documentation content.
• Implement clinical data requirements for perioperative patients as they relate to organizational policies, procedures, business operations, national quality and safety initiatives, regulatory and accreditation requirements, and social and environmental impacts.
• Coordinate the advancement of the perioperative clinical information technology system and tools to satisfy the above data requirements.
• Use results of evaluation analyses to determine the impact of the perioperative information technology plan on the perioperative RN, customers, families, organizational resources, networks, and the health care organization.
• Advocate for patients' needs and rights pertaining to the perioperative clinical information system, including issues of confidentiality (eg, HIPAA, privacy and security) and access to medical information.
• Participate in vendor and organizational stakeholder sessions for selection of perioperative information technology documentation system and tools.
• Interact with and promote collaboration with vendor partners and organization stakeholders where design decisions are made related to content, workflow, and clinical practice tools for perioperative information technology documentation system and tools.
• Act as a liaison between nursing and members of the internal and external perioperative information technology design and clinical documentation teams.
• Analyze order requirements and design, clinical documentation needs, user interface design, and database aggregation needs with content vendors to customize content to produce organizational specific order sets, clinical documentation sets, decision support tools, and reports.
• Verify information systems and tools (eg, clinical decision support) reflect documentation that supports a culture of safety.
• Address documentation and organizational barriers that prevent full integration of safe patient-centered care and quality patient outcomes in the perioperative setting.
• Verify alignment of order sets and perioperative clinical documentation content with the clinical transformation objectives of the information system vendor implementation plan.
• Promote the use of standardized nursing languages and other nationally recognized terminologies in perioperative documentation to enhance interoperability.
• Assume a leadership role in organizational-wide information technology committees.
• Participate in current workflow mapping and future workflow development, application design and development, content issues resolution and implementation, and ongoing support of the perioperative information system.
• Identify standardized data sets/values that facilitate development of perioperative databases for research (eg, NDNQI) and contribute to patient registries (eg, National Cardiovascular Data Registry).
• Analyze data and information from the EHR, national databases (eg, NHSN), or patient registries (eg, American Joint Replacement Registry) to evaluate and benchmark perioperative practice for process or structural quality improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to development of policies and procedures related to physician order sets and perioperative clinical documentation.
• Implement change management strategies to mitigate resistance when implementing, upgrading, or moving the perioperative clinical information system toward a fully integrated computerized patient record.
• Educate perioperative personnel or other clinicians across the health care system (if applicable) about the implementation plan for the perioperative information system and relevant informatics issues (eg, data…