Director, Clinical Informatics (DCI)

The Director, Clinical Informatics examines and clarifies the forces that affect current and future needs relative to clinical informatics and provides Clinical Informatics leadership for the Sturdy Healthcare System. Serves as a liaison between Sturdy Health and the clinical informatics teams to communicate clinical user needs and facilitate system modifications to meet quality standards and ensure safe patient care. The DCI expresses a clear vision for future clinical IT opportunities and creates linkages between current and future activities. This person understands systems and manages complexity well. In addition, the DCI effectively works with diverse members of the organization and can identify, align and optimize resources despite real or perceived boundaries.

Education/Training:

• A Bachelor’s, MSN or Master’s in Informatics preferred
• Related work experience in a similar role of 6-12 years may be substituted in lieu of education

Licenses/Certification:

• Current and Active Massachusetts RN License preferred
• American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) preferred
• Nursing Informatics and/or CPHIMS preferred

Required Qualifications and Skills:

Leadership 2-3 years

Clinical 5 years

Informatics 5+ years

Key Responsibilities 

Strategy & Leadership

• Serves as the strategic liaison for health IT efforts representing healthcare professional and patient care team needs.
• Creates a communication strategy and cross-organizational vision for nursing/clinical informatics in concert with the overall organizational strategy.   
• Understands the impact of regulatory changes and collaborates with internal and external constituents to implement appropriate clinical IT processes.
• Collaborates with the CIO to develop the nursing/clinical informatics strategies related to health IT procurement, implementation, maintenance and optimization.  
• Combines knowledge of patient care, informatics concepts and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals and patients to promote safe, effective and efficient use of health IT in clinical settings.
• Develops clinical systems strategies in collaboration with other senior nursing/clinical, medical informatics and operational leaders. 
• Acts as a change agent in the identification, development, planning, implementation and value measurement of informatics strategies to support quality patient care and professional practice. 
• Designs, develops and implements appropriate service delivery in collaboration with IT leadership for the enterprise and its customers.  
• Incorporates nursing research and evidence-based nursing knowledge into nursing informatics practice. 
• Maintains relationships with key business partners and other senior industry leaders to leverage best practices, evaluate and promote emerging technologies, and distribute knowledge internally to inform plans and strategies.  
• Works with vendors to proactively strategize on development and/or enhancement of clinical information system solutions to meet organizational business needs. 
• Works with clinical and IT leaders in evaluating the effectiveness of technologies and workflows that impact clinical users.
• Collaborates with nurse leaders in planning and implementing program expansion and growth, including new business ventures, construction, and projects.
• Assesses and supports the clinical health IT needs as they relate to evolving patient care delivery models, hospital operations, human resource processes, healthcare finance and payment models impacting the continuum of care.
• Promotes advancement of clinical and business intelligence systems capable of reporting variables to evaluate patient outcomes and to support research and operational improvement across the continuum of care.
• Ensures a competent, technology-enabled knowledge workforce.

Essential Job Functions:

Quality

• Coordinates and collaborates with administrative teams, clinical leaders, information technology, financial services and quality/regulatory/risk management among others in the development of high quality and innovative clinical information systems that assist clinicians in their delivery of care.
• Responsible for ensuring quality improvement efforts are consistent with promoting informatics research, regulatory bodies and guidelines, as well as evidence-based practice that supports positive clinical outcomes.
• Ensures coordination and integration of standard of care practices across all clinical departments for qua