Clinical Informaticist

Job Details

Job Location:

Yakima, WA 98902, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: Bachelor's degree, Salary Range: $37.99 - $56.99 Hourly, Job Shift: Day, Who is Comprehensive Healthcare?

Comprehensive Healthcare provides innovative behavioral health and integrated healthcare services to clients of all ages. We take pride in our creative and collaborative work environment and in delivering clinically excellent, trauma-informed, recovery-oriented services.

Focuses on the effective use of information technology (IT) to improve patient care, enhance the efficiency of healthcare providers, and ensure optimal utilization of healthcare resources. Bridges the gap between clinical staff and IT professionals, ensuring the seamless integration of electronic health records (EHR), clinical decision support systems (CDSS) and other healthcare technologies into daily practice. Assesses and recommends clinical workflows within existing EHR application and practice management systems.

Evaluates new technologies and determines when a new EHR is needed to support our strategy of scalability, sustainability, and community impact.

This is an in-person position at the posted location; remote or hybrid work is not available.

Applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S without the need for current or future visa sponsorship; H-1B visa sponsorship is not offered.

• Integrates and implements new technologies in the clinical environment. Bridges the gap between healthcare and technology, ensuring that clinical informatics systems are designed, implemented, and utilized to improve client care, enhance workflows, and promote data-driven decision-making.
• Collaborates with healthcare professionals, the Information Systems team, and vendors to streamline processes, integrate new technologies, and enhance client outcomes.
• Develops and implements informatics strategies to enhance clinical workflows, data accuracy, and client safety.
• Oversees the deployment and maintenance of EHR, CDSS, and other clinical systems to ensure they meet the needs of healthcare providers and patients.
• Analyzes clinical data to identify trends, measure outcomes, and generate reports that support decision-making processes.
• Provides technical training and support to clinical staff on the use of health information systems and technologies to ensure they are effectively utilized.
• Conducts and participates in testing of existing technologies, upgrades and the piloting of new solutions. Continuously monitors and evaluates the performance of clinical informatics systems, identifying and resolving issues promptly.
• Collaborates with clinical staff to develop and implement quality improvement initiatives based on data insights and best practices.
• Provides recommendations for continuous improvement and change management, leveraging data, analytics and operational workflows.
• Maintains a current working knowledge of healthcare regulations, standards, and best practices to ensure health information systems comply with regulatory requirements and that patient data is securely managed and protected.
• Facilitates the integration of various health information systems to ensure interoperability and seamless sharing of patient data across different platforms.
• Integrates healthcare IT systems, enhancing data management and clinical workflows.
• Manages all clinical application releases and upgrades, assesses changes, tests with stakeholder groups to determine impacts, and trains on those changes.
• Trains new employees and creates tailored training for all Smart Care and clinical application workflows.
• Supports the strategic vision of developing and implementing a model of…