Director – Health Informatics

JOB SUMMARY:

The Director – Health Informatics supports the organization in the planning, design, build validation, and testing of Sidra’s Clinical Information Systems including the Cerner EMR and ancillary systems. This includes directing the health informatics program at Sidra, representing the clinicians input into the EMR, driving adoption of clinical information systems.

The Director will ensure alignment of Clinical Systems design and use with best practice, and standard design using the evidence-based approach, and compliance with international accreditation requirements, including JCI, HIMSS to ensure patients’ safety and information confidentiality. The incumbent directly supports the department both internally and externally, building strong relationships at all levels of the informatics community including Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), Hamad Medical corporation (HMC), and other healthcare facilities.

S/he guides and directs engagement of clinicians in the informatics governance around the optimization, and design changes in the clinical systems. S/he is accountable for the provision of clinician training, awareness, and education; and supporting adoption reporting.

KEY ROLE ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Oversees, and validates clinical workflow and processes related to clinical systems and advices how the EMR design and adoption can be optimized to increase efficacy and efficiency.
• Reviews the technical design of the clinical systems including Cerner EMR, and ensures meeting Sidra standards, best practices.
• Ensures that clinicians are well informed on how to use the EMR to enter timely, accurate, and complete clinical data for patient care.
• Promotes systems interoperability and integration.
• Supports Governance around Cerner EMR and other clinical systems optimization and change management, and provides Medical direction.
• Supports best practices in EMR design and use by utilizing analytics tools and standard design documents.
• Supports DMI education team to have knowledge management and utilize data to support proper adoption, and ensure benefit realization.
• Oversees Clinical Transformation of Patient informatics, Patient Management systems, Order Management, Electronic Documentation, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Unified Telecommunication and interoperability systems.
• Supports the ED - Quality, Patient Experience and Health Informatics in identifying and promoting research and development of topic relevant for applied health informatics, and promoting data-driven measures and process improvement of health informatics.
• Engages care providers with varying roles, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nursing staff, pharmacist, ancillary department personnel, and medical records professionals in the development, integration and use of clinical information systems.
• Manages design principles and prioritization mechanism to support a safe and personalized care experience for patients, and accessible, informative and paperless digital environment for clinicians.
• Reviews health informatics trends, experiences and approaches, and develops technical and application implementation strategies. Assists in the development of strategic and tactical plans for clinical information systems.
• Leads the informatics design of clinical pathway models with physician, nursing and administrative leadership, and assists in the presentation and modification of these models or guidelines to gain maximum efficacy and support for patient care and service.
• Leads development, deployment and change management of solutions that gather information for clinical benchmarking, determination of disease severity, and analysis of practice variation.
• Provides clinical and technical expertise in designing workflows, clinical systems content, configuration, and integration; and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) modules.
• Fosters innovative solutions and supports creative problem solving in the field of informatics

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Education

achelor’s degree in nursing, medicine or other clinical healthcare related profession with additional education and training in informatics

Experience

• 10+ years of experience with progressive leadership experience in clinical healthcare field with at least 5+ years practice in healthcare Informatics leadership roles in an academic medical centre.
• Recent and strong experience with Cerner/Oracle.