Informatics Specialist

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Site: Shared Health
- Health Sciences Centre

Department / Unit: SH
- Health Information & Data Integrity

Job Stream: Non-Clinical

Union: Non Union

Anticipated Start Date
- End Date: 08/28/2026 - 08/25/2028

Reason for Term: Maternity Leave

FTE: 1.00

Anticipated Shift: Days

Work Arrangement: Hybrid

Daily Hours Worked: 7.75

Annual Base

Hours:

2015

Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.

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Reporting to the Manager, Health Information and Data Integrity, the incumbent will provide clinical expertise for electronic health system implementations and transformations within Shared Health.

This role functions within both project and operations environments.

• Provide clinical expertise within Shared Health and in collaboration with Digital Health.
• Conduct clinical, business, workflow and gap analyses to ensure Shared Health goals are met and/or exceeded for patient care.
• Utilize clinical expertise to understand the needs required to deliver safe and efficient patient care in current state and translate these needs into future state when considering clinical application functionality.
• Translate the healthcare culture and clinical thinking process used by clinicians and integrate with technology solutions.
• Ensure that decisions for system configuration and workflow are standardized and based on sound principles, evidence-based practice, best practice, and meet data integrity requirements.
• Ensure that implementation and support is based on regional, provincial, and federal standards, and inclusive of professional designation and legislation.
• Conduct clinical analyses and provide expertise on outcomes relating to data, costs/benefits, enhancements to business processes, and regional/national benchmarking.
• Utilize clinical expertise to recommend optimal clinical testing requirements, workflow and roles within the acute care sector.
• Support clinical adoption activities through change management processes.
• Facilitate clinical system implementation and transformation activities throughout Shared Health and mitigate adoption obstacles as they arise.
• Conduct ongoing assessments and analyses for risks to patients, patient safety and clinical care decision making; develop contingency plans to mitigate or eliminate risks to ensure business continuity.
• Provide clinical strength, support and guidance in all aspects to new health system implementations for effective and efficient support while ensuring risk mitigation strategies are implemented.
• Provide clinical leadership, guidance, direction and work contribution to ensure a solid clinical application is delivered that meets the business needs and benefits patient quality of care delivery.
• Collaborate with appropriate Solutions Groups at Digital Health to ensure proper functioning and optimal implementations of the systems within Shared Health.
• Engage with Provincial stakeholders throughout implementation and enhancement processes in both project and operations environments.
• Contribute to and participate in the development and execution of clinical systems training.

• Minimum 5 years recent clinical experience and/or experience in healthcare projects and leadership.
• Minimum 2 years of experience working with EPR, EMR or other clinical information systems.
• Demonstrated staff level leadership capabilities and the ability to facilitate groups effectively.
• Demonstrated experience…