Vail Health is the world’s most advanced mountain healthcare system, consisting of a state-of-the-art hospital providing exceptional care. The Clinical Informaticist will support clinical excellence and quality by optimizing clinical applications and workflows, ensuring effective technology use to enhance patient care.
Responsibilities
- Consults on the analysis of requested EMR enhancements impacting single or multiple departments across the enterprise
- Facilitates enhancement requests and supports translation through established governance and prioritization processes
- Conducts multidisciplinary feasibility assessments to identify opportunities for system and workflow improvement, including analysis of current state practices, technical options, and downstream workflow impact
- Serves as a liaison to clinically focused committees, including multidisciplinary, nursing, and provider forums
- Designs and supports the implementation of education and clinical services programs, including end-user training and onboarding for nursing and provider staff
- Engages clinical and operational stakeholders to support adoption of systems and workflows; serves as a subject matter expert on solution roadmaps and optimization opportunities
- Leverages clinical and operational data to inform improvements in workflow efficiency, patient safety, care delivery, financial outcomes, and system usability
- Translates the impact of public policy, regulatory, or accreditation requirements into informatics practice and system configuration
- Participates in on-call rotation to provide user support in alignment with the established support framework
Skills
- Minimum of one (1) year of clinical experience required
- Bachelor's degree required
- One of the following is required: Respiratory Therapist (RT), Physical Therapist (PT), Occupational Therapist (OT), Registered Nurse (RN) preferred
- Three (3) years of IT or clinical experience supporting clinical workflows across multiple departments or service lines preferred
- Demonstrated proficiency with EMR technologies, including Epic, HIE, HL7, and FHIR, preferred
- Experience with systems development life cycle (SDLC), project or change management, end-user training, and clinical workflow analysis in a healthcare environment, preferred
- Familiarity with chart review, clinical workflows, data analytics, and current or emerging regulatory requirements, preferred
- Knowledge of Lean or other process improvement methodologies preferred
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and/or American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) Board Certification in Informatics preferred
- Nursing, computer science, or health-related field preferred
Benefits
- Competitive wages
- Parental leave (4 weeks paid)
- Housing programs
- Childcare reimbursement
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Tuition Assistance
- Existing Student Loan Repayment
- Specialty Certification Reimbursement
- Annual Supplemental Educational Funds
- Up to five weeks in your first year of employment and continues to grow each year.
- 403(b) Retirement plan with immediate matching
- Life insurance
- Short and long-term disability
- Up to $1,000 annual wellbeing reimbursement
- Recreation discounts
- Pet insurance
Company Overview
Vail Health is a healthcare system that provides surgery, childbirth, physical therapy, endocrinology, emergency and cancer care services. It was founded in 1965, and is headquartered in Vail, Colorado, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.vailhealth.org.