JOB SUMMARY AND QUALIFICATIONS

The Director of Clinical Informatics (DCI) is responsible for the facilitation and leadership of facility Clinical Informatics by leading the implementation of and providing ongoing support for corporate/division/facility projects related to clinical informatics, including:

• standardization
• utilization
• integration
• optimization

The DCI is responsible for developing, coordinating, supporting, and completing workflow mapping, project advancements, resources, and implementation focused on clinical informatics initiatives. This includes (but is not limited to) computerized provider order entry (CPOE) and documentation, Meaningful Use and other technology that supports clinician workflow, Clinical Excellence scorecard, and publicly reported data such as Leapfrog. The DCI will participate in the community of clinical informatics by working with division and facility leadership to ensure clinical applications are well supported throughout the facility.

WHAT QUALIFICATIONS YOU WILL NEED:

• Registered Nurse license required
• Bachelor’s Degree in nursing required.
• Master’s Degree preferred, ideally with a focus on Health Informatics.
• Minimum 3 to 5 years of clinical experience in an acute care hospital setting
• Minimum two years of experience in Clinical/Healthcare Informatics, Clinical applications support, or equivalent preferred
• BLS (Basic Life Support) preferred
• Meditech experience is strongly preferred
• Management experience preferred
  HCA Houston Healthcare West is a full-service, 300+ bed hospital that has been offering exceptional care to the West Houston communities for over 30 years. We proudly provide Houston residents with exceptional healthcare, including a vast-array of medical services from board-certified doctors and nationally accredited departments. We are recognized as a Certified Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission and under an affiliation agreement with The Woman’s Hospital of Texas, we are able to bring our community The Woman’s Hospital of Texas at West Houston, a three-story cardiac and critical care tower. The Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center, departments with HCA Houston Healthcare West, provide additional services to meet the needs of our community. We are members of HCA Houston Healthcare, the most comprehensive family of hospitals in the region and part of the leading provider of healthcare in the country, HCA Healthcare. Together we are stronger, smarter and more accessible in providing the patient-centered care you need close to home.
  HCA Healthcare has been recognized as one of the World’s Most Ethical Companies® by the Ethisphere Institute more than ten times. In recent years, HCA Healthcare spent an estimated $3.7 billion in cost for the delivery of charitable care, uninsured discounts, and other uncompensated expenses.
  “There is so much good to do in the world and so many different ways to do it."- Dr. Thomas Frist, Sr.
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  We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status

• standardization
• utilization
• integration
• optimizatio