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Position Summary:
The IBU Clinical Informatics Specialist is assigned in partnership with IBU leadership to a specific healthcare site(s) to partner closely with the entire healthcare team, including healthcare operational leadership, to be responsible for functional leadership and day to day operational support for clinical technologies used at the site(s). This role serves as a liaison for system technology initiatives for all non-physician and non-APP clinical disciplines and IS&T as it related to clinical technologies.
The IBU Clinical Informaticist is a clinical technology, data, and outcome driven leader with expertise in usability, operational workflow analysis, processes, and design who guides and collaborates with care teams to develop and optimize the clinical technology environment using lean principles, workflow analysis, heuristics, and best practices. Streamlined and efficient documentation workflows and industry best practices.
The IBU Clinical Informaticist integrates nursing/ healthcare science, computer science, and information science to manage and communicate data, information, and knowledge in clinical practice.
Work situations include intermediate to complex analytical, clinical, and business problem-solving and solution development that require independent decision-making, leadership, cross-team collaboration, project management, change management, public speaking, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
The position is also responsible for staying current with evidence-based Informatics practices and providing leadership and direction for incorporating clinical practices into various clinical technologies.
Clinical technologies supported include, but are not limited to Epic, unified communication platforms, telehealth, RFID, PACS (McKesson), biomedical devices, virtual health, alert and alarm management, decision-support, robotics, and other clinically focused systems as required based on assigned location(s).

Minimum Requirements:
3 years clinical experience in a patient care setting with 1 year leadership, managerial experience
3 years informatics, information services experiences at a large Independent Delivery Network
Consideration may be given to candidates not meeting the minimum qualifications.

Education/Licenses/Certifications:
Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred
Active RN or Clinical License
Informatics or Technology Certification, e.g., CAHIMS, CPHIMS, RN-BC preferred
Epic proficiency/accreditation/certification, e.g., ClinDoc, Orders, Grand Central, ASAP, Beacon, Ambulatory, MyChart preferred

Position Type: Full-Time Regular
Full Time Employee: Yes
Primary Shift: Day
Work Schedule: Day

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MultiCare is a not-for-profit health care organization with more than 20,000 team members, including employees, providers and volunteers. MultiCare has been caring for our community for well over a century, since the founding of Tacoma’s first hospital and today is the largest community-based, locally governed system of health in the state of Washington, serving communities across Washington and Northern Idaho. MultiCare’s comprehensive system of health includes numerous primary care, urgent care and specialty services — including Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital & Health Network; MultiCare Indigo Urgent Care; Pulse Heart Institute; MultiCare Medical Associates, affiliated physicians; MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, the largest multispecialty clinic in the Inland Northwest region; and MultiCare Connected Care, our Accountable Care Organization. Eleven hospitals complete the organization: Allenmore Hospital, Auburn Medical Center, Capital Medical Center, Covington Medical Center, Deaconess Hospital, Good Samaritan Hospital, Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital — the Puget Sound region’s only children’s hospital and state-designated Level II Pediatric Trauma Center for Western Washingt...on — Navos Behavioral Health Hospital, Valley Hospital, Tacoma General Hospital — which is home to the South Puget Sound region’s only Level IV Neonatal Intensive Care Unit — and Wellfound Behavioral Health Hospital. Our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness, serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other. MultiCare is also proud of our commitment to workforce diversity and culturally competent care. This commitment is led by our CEO and supported through employee education and community outreach.

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