Overview:
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is an independent, nonprofit organization providing adult cancer treatment and groundbreaking research focused on cancer and infectious diseases. Based in Seattle, Fred Hutch is the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer center in Washington.
With a track record of global leadership in bone marrow transplantation, HIV/AIDS prevention, immunotherapy and COVID-19 vaccines, Fred Hutch has earned a reputation as one of the world’s leading cancer, infectious disease and biomedical research centers. Fred Hutch operates eight clinical care sites that provide medical oncology, infusion, radiation, proton therapy and related services, and network affiliations with hospitals in five states. Together, our fully integrated research and clinical care teams seek to discover new cures to the world’s deadliest diseases and make life beyond cancer a reality.
At Fred Hutch we value collaboration, compassion, determination, excellence, innovation, integrity and respect. Our mission is directly tied to the humanity, dignity and inherent value of each employee, patient, community member and supporter. Our commitment to learning across our differences and similarities make us stronger. We seek employees who bring different and innovative ways of seeing the world and solving problems.
The Provider Informatics Specialist II is responsible for promoting the understanding, integration, and innovation of clinical information technology to improve the provider, clinician and patient experience. This role supports organizational goals and initiatives using the input, analysis, and retrieval of data to improve processes. This role maintains knowledge of clinical practice and a relationship with clinical and IT leadership.

Responsibilities:

• Serves as a leader and provider liaison for health IT efforts representing providers and clinical staff; facilitating in a governance forum or content review
• Function as a provider champion for clinical applications, and technical solutions
• Review Nova Notes and other release notes to identify impacts to clinical users
• Participate in the design, testing, implementation, and support of clinical applications.Acts as a change agent in the identification, development, planning, implementation, of informatics strategies to support quality patient care and professional practice
• Investigates and analyzes issues, and requests related to clinical applications.
• Improves processes by systematically analyzing complex problems and presents innovative solutions to clinicians and IT leaders.
• Collaborates with administration, medical staff and IT leaders to translate clinician requirements into coordinated specifications for new clinical solutions
• Combines knowledge of patient care, clinical informatics concepts, and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals to promote safe, effective, and efficient use of health IT in clinical settings.
• Takes the understanding of clinical workflow and practice to conduct a solution relevant impact analysis, and to prepare application use cases to support user acceptance testing and script development
• Defines success criteria to evaluate system usability and system adoption.
• Develop systems that improve the clinician’s ability to care for patients, clinic workflows, and the patient experience.
• Develops and maintains standards of care that inform evidence-based practice, quality of care, patient safety and clinician workflows
• Encourages surveillance and reporting of errors where health IT is a contributing factor
• Collect, analyze, and present data as a story to make concise recommendations to solve simple and complex problems
• Develops a communication strategy to support the right messaging to providers and clinical staff to promote understanding and comprehension.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and advocate for a safe and efficient system, promoting quality, regulatory readiness, research, and evidence-based practice.

Qualifications:

• Serves as a leader and provider liaison for health IT efforts representing providers and clinical staff; facilitating in a governance forum or content review
• Function as a provider champion for clinical applications, and technical solutions
• Review Nova Notes and other release notes to identify impacts to clinical users
• Participate in the design, testing, implementation, and support of clinical applications.Acts as a change agent in the identification, development, planning, implementation, of informatics strategies to support quality patient care and professional practice
• Investigates and analyzes issues, and requests related to clinical applications.
• Improves processes by systematically analyzing complex problems and presents innovative solutions to clinicians and IT leaders.
• Collaborates with administration, medical staff and IT leaders to translate clinician requirements into coordinated specifications for new clinical solutions
• Combines knowledge of patient care, clinical informatics concepts, and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals to promote safe, effective, and efficient use of health IT in clinical settings.
• Takes the understanding of clinical workflow and practice to conduct a solution relevant impact analysis, and to prepare application use cases to support user acceptance testing and script development
• Defines success criteria to evaluate system usability and system adoption.
• Develop systems that improve the clinician’s ability to care for patients, clinic workflows, and the patient experience.
• Develops and maintains standards of care that inform evidence-based practice, quality of care, patient safety and clinician workflows
• Encourages surveillance and reporting of errors where health IT is a contributing factor
• Collect, analyze, and present data as a story to make concise recommendations to solve simple and complex problems
• Develops a communication strategy to support the right messaging to providers and clinical staff to promote understanding and comprehension.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders and advocate for a safe and efficient system, promoting quality, regulatory readiness, research, and evidence-based practice