Physician Lead - One Person One Record (OPOR) 4 Year Term

at  Nova Scotia Health Authority

Requisition ID: 159872
Opportunity Type: Temporary
Estimated Annual Salary: 25,000 - 50,000
Type of Remuneration: Other

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Ability to listen to the voice of our providers for their needs and recommendations
• Viewed as credible, visionary, and able to produce results
• Sound understanding of technical issues and ability to explain them to peers and users
• Commitment to the use of technology to improve and positively affect patient care
• Keen understanding of the regulatory and risk management requirement for the CIS
• Ability to develop flexible, transferable models for pathways of care and order set management

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Significant understanding of pain points, capabilities, and deficiencies in the process
• Possesses good grasp clinical work flow inpatient specialty units preferred.
• Previous experience in clinical outcomes, patient safety and quality management preferred.
• Previous experience in routine use of clinical information systems for patient care preferred.
• Successful experience with implementation of healthcare applications preferred.
• Experience with innovation preferred.
• Training in medical administration, informatics or public health preferred.
• Expertise in data analytics and population health preferred.

TIME REQUIREMENTS

Estimated at 4-6 hours per week.

Reporting directly to the CMIO and VP Medicine of Nova Scotia Health and IWK Health, the Physician lead will:

• Support OPOR Readiness and the physician components of the clinical practice standardization across the NSHA and IWK to improve the quality, safety, and efficiency of patient care using clinical systems and knowledge-driven care.
• Engage patient care providers with varying roles including physicians, interprofessional team members, ancillary department personnel, and health records professionals to contribute to the effective use of the clinical information system.
• Assist to create clinical protocols, standardization and metrics of clinical documentation to facilitate successful adoption of clinical applications.
• Serve as a practicing physician leader who routinely uses clinical information systems for patient care who will:
• promote the use of information technology in the clinical setting to improve safety, quality, patient and family satisfaction, efficiency in delivery of care, and integration with biomedical equipment;
• identify needs and support the training of clinicians on the clinical systems;
• demonstrate and educate clinicians on the effective use of clinical systems to improve and positively affect patient care;
• leverage clinical and health data to improve services and daily operations; and,
• identifies opportunities for ongoing systems improvement and changes needed to best realize the advantages of clinical automation.