MAKE A DIFFERENCE AT OCHIN
OCHIN is a rapidly growing national nonprofit health IT organization with two decades of experience transforming health care delivery to drive health equity. We are hiring for a number of new positions to meet increasing demand. When you choose to join OCHIN, you have the opportunity to continuously grow your skills and do meaningful work to help fulfill our mission.
OCHIN provides leading-edge technology, data analytics, research, and support services to nearly 1,000 community health care sites, reaching nearly 6 million patients nationally. We believe that every individual, no matter their race, ethnicity, background, or zip code, should have fair opportunity to achieve their full health potential. Our work addresses differences in health that are systemic, avoidable, and unjust. We partner, learn, innovate, and advocate, in order to close the gap in health for individuals and communities negatively impacted by racism or other structural inequities.
At OCHIN, we value the unique perspectives and experiences of every individual and work hard to maintain a culture of belonging.
Founded in Oregon in 2000, OCHIN employs a growing virtual workforce of more than 800 diverse professionals, working remotely across 46 states. We offer a generous compensation package and are committed to supporting our employees’ entire well-being by fostering a healthy work-life balance and equitable opportunity for professional advancement. We are curious, collaborative learners who strive to live our values everyday: leadership, collaboration, excellence, innovation, inclusion, and stewardship. OCHIN is excited to support our continued national expansion and the increasing demand for our innovative tools and services by welcoming new talent to our growing team.
Position Overview
The Clinical Informaticist at OCHIN is a clinician responsible for providing clinical consultation on the design, development, implementation, maintenance, and improvement, of clinical and health IT systems, including Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Telehealth, Mobile Health, and other HIT systems. This role will support OCHIN member clinics and clinicians and work on priority innovation projects. Please note: This position is funded through a contract. Continued employment is contingent upon contract renewal or extension, and organizational needs.
Essential Duties
- Collaborate with clinical leadership team on strategy and operations.
- Provide leadership within the clinical informatics team in areas of clinical subject matter expertise, with special emphasis on any of the following: Primary care, Behavioral Health, Substance Use, Dentistry, Acute Care, Pharmacy
- Provide clinical informatics consultation internally at OCHIN.
- Review clinical questions via incident management system (JIRA)
- Ad hoc consultation on additional OCHIN Epic build or maintenance projects.
- Analysis of clinical EHR break/fix issues as needed.
- Participate in build primarily in design, as time, interest, and skill level allow.
- Participate in member engagement.
- Prepare for and present at Clinical Operations Review Committee (CORC) and Clinical Oversight Group (COG) meetings.
- Ad hoc consultation.
- Learning Forum – OCHIN’s annual user group meeting.
- Provide mentorship to provider builders at member organizations.
- Provide support to new members before, during, and after install.
- Facilitate focus groups
- Recommends modifications of clinical information systems to gain maximum efficiency, leverage the clinicians’ time, and maximize communication with affiliates and referring physicians.
- Support clinical team in efforts to measure, communicate, and support an increase in workforce satisfaction among member sites.
- Clinical Knowledge Management efforts
- Contribute to building and improving Clinical Decision Support (CDS).
- Contribute to clinical review of CDS content.
- Communicate with members about CDS.
- Participate or provide leadership in interdisciplinary work groups in areas of expertise. Develop or further subject matter expertise, and provide leadership, in one or more priority areas. Involvement may include product consultation, research initiatives, business and foundation development needs, or policy.
- Exercises strong communication skills, especially in the area of relaying messages between IT and technology and, clinical staff, members and stakeholders.
- Studies trends in health informatics to inform the development of IT systems and infrastructure that increase efficiency and improve patient outcomes.
- Demonstrates an in depth understanding of the modern health field and its direction.
- Other duties as assigned.