Clinical Informatics Specialist

Clinical Informatics Specialist, Vestal 3.0

United Health Services is seeking a Clinical Informatics Specialist to join our Clinical Informatics department at Vestal 3.0 in Vestal, NY. This position is benefits eligible.

Shift

Day Rotational

Hours per week:

40

Salary range:

$35.27 - $53.94 per hour, depending on experience.

Overview

The Clinical Informatics Specialist is a registered nurse or other clinician, with expert level clinical knowledge in the relevant area, or physician, with informatics experience. They are knowledgeable with the clinical processes and practice, relevant regulatory requirements and recommendations, and principles of quality/safety improvement.

This position will use their knowledge of clinical sciences, computer science, and information science towards improving the health of the UHS patient population and surrounding communities.

This informaticist uses their clinical and informatics skills for assessment, planning, training, implementation, evaluation and optimization of clinical informatics projects. They actively engage in group meetings/activities, is able to independently lead group discussions and works as a change agent within focused workgroups. This informaticist is able to identify gaps between best practice operational needs and current EHR build, collaborating with the EHR team as the clinical expert to develop, plan, and test build changes. They participate as a liaison between clinical operations and Information Services to ensure multi- and inter-disciplinary project coordination.

This position reports up through the Director of Informatics to the Vice President for Informatics.

This position maintains a close working relationship with nursing organizational structure providing a nursing perspective and articulating nursing and provider needs related to technology integration within patient care delivery.

They participate in communications, project planning, testing, and implementation of clinical system upgrades, clinical device integration, and other UHS enterprise clinical and information services initiatives.

Qualifications

Education/Experience

Minimum Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or relevant clinical field.
• Five years of clinical experience in the inpatient or ambulatory care setting.
  
  

Preferred:

• Master’s degree in clinical informatics.
• Four or more years in clinical informatics related experience
• Epic experience & certifications
  
  

License/Certification

Minimum Required:

• One Epic certification within one year of hire.
  
  

Preferred:

• National certification in clinical informatics.
  
  

About United Health Services

United Health Services is a not-for-profit healthcare system serving more than 500,000 people in Upstate New York’s Southern Tier region. We offer integrated healthcare services across 60 locations, including four hospitals, three walk-in centers, and 22 primary care offices, in addition to home care services and senior living facilities. The United Health Services system employs more than 6,300 people and comprises 600 providers who are all committed to providing and supporting the delivery of exceptional patient care.

United Health Services employees and providers are “LOVED!” This means we’re Living Our Values Every Day. Here, you’ll join a team that is dedicated to values-based, coordinated patient care. Every day, we outwardly live our Values of Compassion, Trust, Respect, Teamwork, and Innovation.

About New York’s Southern Tier

As an employee of United Health Services, you’ll call the Southern Tier, or more specifically, the Greater Binghamton area, home. Known for entertainment and restaurants, craft brews, outdoor experiences, minor-league sports, family-friendly events, and a keenness for local history (like our connection to the Twilight Zone and our six antique carousels), Greater Binghamton offers something for everyone. We’re a short drive away from the Finger Lakes region in Central New York, three hours from New York City, and just shy of four hours from Niagara Falls, Canada.

United Health Services in an Equal Opportunity Employer.

United Health Services, Inc. and the members of the UHS System neither are affiliated with, sponsored, endorsed nor approved by, nor otherwise associated with, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS), UHS of Delaware, Inc. nor their affiliates, which can be found at www.uhsinc.com.