Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist

Responsibilities Headquartered in King of Prussia, PA, Universal Health Services, Inc. (NYSE: UHS) is one of the nation’s largest and most respected providers of hospital and healthcare services. Since our founding in 1979, UHS has grown steadily into a premier Fortune 500® corporation perennially recognized by multiple esteemed national rating entities.

Through its subsidiaries, UHS operates inpatient acute care facilities, inpatient behavioral health facilities, outpatient and other facilities, nationwide virtual behavioral health services, an insurance offering, a physician network and various related services with physical locations in the U. S., Puerto Rico, Ireland and United Kingdom. www.uhs.com. The Corporate Information Services Department is seeking a dynamic and talented Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist.

The Senior Clinical Informatics Specialist provides guidance in identifying, developing, implementing, and maintaining an efficient and effective clinical information system. Supports the organization’s overall clinical initiatives by applying an excellent understanding of clinical processes and supporting information technologies to optimize health information systems. Serves as the liaison between providers, clinicians, IT, and management.

As an advisor, this position helps shape and define current and future clinical information system improvements through daily interaction with individual teams both at corporate and enterprise-wide. Participates in strategic vision and planning. Provides continued customer support inclusive of supporting interactive education to enhance system and application comprehension.

Facilitates the organization’s vision and strategy for clinical transformation, and actively engaging in managing system and practice changes. Serves as a mentor and role model. Key Responsibilities include: Leads: Plans, reviews and oversees implementation of activities, resources and timelines required to complete systems development projects, systems administration, and reporting.

Must innovate and develop solutions for issues or new build, using clinical operational needs and IT options. Provides leadership in development, establishing ownership and maintaining work teams. Apply broad clinical informatics knowledge (technical and process) with highly comprehensive specialized knowledge to enhance new clinical system features and functions.

Acts as IT Clinical management liaison to other IT departments as well as Corporate and Facility leadership and stakeholders. Oversees standardization of clinical system content. Identifies novel ways to bridge the gap between clinical departments and Information Services Department.

Manages initiatives to promote effective design, development and implementation of clinical information system improvements. Must demonstrate leadership potential and capacity to mentor, motivate and manage team member is regards to routine support, various meetings or efficiency projects. Communicates: Promotes and communicates decisions to other UHS corporate and facility staff.

Identifies educational needs and collaborates to design and implement end user education. Provides mechanisms for soliciting ongoing feedback from users and responds and follows-up with concerns in a timely manner. Keeps management well informed of activities, needs, and risks.

Partner with key departments to identify and implement system improvements to enhance workflow and processes. Delivers expert knowledge of appropriate clinical design strategies to achieve or solve identified organizational needs. Acts as resource for key decision makers by organizing relevant information and defining alternatives.

Articulates how new technology will impact current processes and procedures for the organization. Plans: Plans, facilitates, and evaluates improvements to operational workflow and processes in collaboration with facility clinical leadership. Researches, analyzes, and makes recommendations for clinical application improvement.

Assures that system content and available education is linked to strategic initiatives. Formulates reports, collects and analyzes data to identify trends that improve organizational performance and clinical outcomes. Develops and makes recommendations to modify policies and procedures impacted by information systems.

Maintains a current knowledge of trends and issues in healthcare, clinical (nursing) practice, healthcare informatics and Joint Commission standards. Works closely with the clinicians including physicians, departmental leadership, Patient Safety & Quality, Information Services, and Accreditation or Licensure departments to strategically select design, implement and guide the use of technology to ensure optimal care delivery processes.

Participates in strategic and tactical planning for clinical application development, reporting and enhancement with stakeholders. Analyze multiple approaches/solutions to issues. Develops a recommended solution and manages the process for implementing the solution.

Complies with legal, hospital, departmental policies and procedures, and position requirements. Adheres to UHS Project Management standards and Change Control processes. Provides on-call after-hours support for urgent issues as required.

Maintains Service Excellence principles. Qualifications Position

Bachelor’s degree plus 8-10 years of related experience required. Minimum 4 years in healthcare environment experience required, as a clinician preferred. Minimum 6 years’ experience with clinical information systems.

Minimum 4 years Cerner Millennium experience required Capable of working with the organization’s leadership, clinical teams, and IT systems related to all clinicians and processes. Knowledge of leading projects and directing the efforts of multiple people. Able to understand clinical workflows and patient-care oriented processes.

Has a good foundation of information technologies in a clinical environment. Additional IT or Clinical certifications or credentialing is preferred in computer science or Clinical/Nursing Informatics. Professional demeanor with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively interact with Executives, Physicians, Vendors, Nurses and all other clinical and IT personnel.

Provides solutions to highly complex technical problems requiring frequent use of creativity and ingenuity and an in-depth analysis and evaluation of multiple factors. Experience with analyzing clinical systems and identifying continuous improvement opportunities. Strong statistical skills and interpretive abilities Excellent organizational skills and ability to manage multiple projects.

Project Management Certification and/or experience, process improvement skills related to workflow processes, and training development of educational material. Ability to provide clinical review for projects to ensure a high level of usability of system functionality is achieved. Promote the use of evidence-based clinical practices.

Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Training: Ongoing training required to keep jobs skills current. Travel

5 – 25% domestic US travel (depending on projects). This opportunity provides the following: Challenging and rewarding work environment Growth and development opportunities within UHS and its subsidiaries Competitive Compensation Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plan 401k plan with company match Generous Paid Time Off *UHS is a registered trademark of UHS of Delaware, Inc., the management company for Universal Health Services, Inc. and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Universal Health Services, Inc.

Universal Health Services, Inc. is a holding company and operates through its subsidiaries including its management company, UHS of Delaware, Inc. All healthcare and management operations are conducted by subsidiaries of Universal Health Services, Inc. To the extent any reference to "UHS or UHS facilities" on this