Lead, Health Informatics (Advance/meditech Expanse)

February 29 2024
Expected expiry date: February 29 2024
Industries Healthcare, social assistance
Categories Laboratory, Diagnostics, Medical Imaging
Surrey, BC • Full time
Salary range

The salary range for this position is CAD $44.14 - $63.45 / hour
Why Fraser Health?

The Fraser Health Advance program is focused on re-imagining how we deliver care today and into the future. The program will enable Fraser Health to improve the way patients experience care while driving better outcomes through the implementation of MEDITECH Expanse.

As part of the Advance program, there are exciting projects Fraser Health will implement within the MEDITECH Expanse solution to enable clinical workflows and support clinical decision making. One is the MEDITECH Quality and Surveillance module that allows for the design of key toolkits for quality indicators, real-time alerts, single-click interventions for health care providers, watch lists and surveillance boards, and population health surveillance.

We have an exciting opportunity as an Informatics Lead, MEDITECH Advance Program where you will have a critical leadership role in the initiation, planning, design, implementation, and evaluation of sustainable clinical information systems transformation design, related to MEDITECH Expanse Quality and Surveillance. In collaboration with the project team, clinical and provider stakeholders, and other application leads of the designated functional areas, the Informatics Lead provides informatics expertise to promote and lead health care information systems adoption.

Build your career experience as you:

  • Lead and manage health informatics project implementations at various sites
  • Provide leadership to team members and applying appropriate change management strategies as part of a project.
  • Provide clinical and informatics expertise on enterprise-wide projects, and informing education/training development requirements, optimization, and effectiveness.
  • Provide consultation and guidance to leadership and clinical/provider stakeholder groups to ensure information technology design and future state workflows provide the best opportunities to support and transform clinical practice, education, administration and research.
  • Leads and coordinates design and build activities associated with workflow standardization, system design and informatics work stream activities including alignment and integration with the other design teams.
  • Drives best practice and informatics outcomes by collaborating with leadership to lead design based on best evidence and professional standards,
  • Ensure the organizational requirements, and evaluates and monitors success to ensure effective implementation of quality and system improvements.
  • Facilitates team members in validating the required data elements for measurement of process and outcomes, and ensures they are incorporated into system design and used to transform clinical practices.
  • Serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager and/or Manager in the area of leadership of the training team.
  • Supports the Project Manager in resource planning and allocation for implementation

Here is what we would like you to have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Health Information Science or Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field.
  • Five (5) years recent related experience with business and systems analysis including project management experience.
  • Including experience with health and corporate information systems.
  • Experience with an electronic health information system, such as the Meditech, PARIS, and/or Intrahealth Profile is helpful.
  • Valid BC Driver's License and access to personal vehicle for business related purposes.

An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience will be considered.

We have a full-time role available at Central City Tower located in Surrey, BC.

If this sounds like the excellent role for you, here are more reasons why you should apply:

  • A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast growing and exciting organization with health care providers who are excellent in their respective fields.
  • Fantastic opportunities for support and management roles are available as you advance within the organization.
  • Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
  • A chance to create a difference every day in the world of health care.

We invite you to apply today and find out why employees recommend Fraser Health to their friends as an exceptional place to work. We are committed to planetary health, we value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring and Trust.

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Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

The Lead, Health Informatics is responsible for leading and managing assigned projects, providing leadership to team members and applying appropriate change management strategies as part of a project. Provides advice, guidance, and direction to an assigned portfolio in the areas of knowledge management, and decision support; in clinical and corporate business areas which includes the development and implementation of application architecture. Provides expertise on enterprise-wide projects, serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership.
Responsibilities

  1. Provides guidance and expertise by consulting to all disciplines and stakeholders within an assigned portfolio by performing functions such as coordinating and performing feasibility studies, conducting workload efficiency analysis using formal data gathering techniques, analyzing, designing and implementing appropriate information systems, and identifying system deficiencies, user department operational inefficiencies and recommending ways of improving business efficiency functions.
  2. Participates in enterprise-wide, cross-disciplinary business strategy projects including confidential initiatives that support the selection, procurement and implementation of appropriate information systems applications that may result in the elimination of FTEs.
  3. Serves as a consultant participating on enterprise-wide projects which are under the leadership of the Portfolio Manager; serves as back up to the Portfolio Manager in the area of team leadership or project management. Prepares status reports and meets with clients and provide reports back to the Portfolio Manager as required.
  4. Responsible to establish and lead assigned information system projects by adhering to project management and support structure methodologies, managing project timelines, monitoring expenditures and variance analysis, facilitating change management strategies, defining tasks, identifying resource needs, and reporting on project status to the Portfolio Manager or Manager. Provides strategic guidance in the project design phases and works within assigned budget and provides reports or raises concerns as necessary. Participates in the hiring process for staff, and coordinates and provides guidance to team members.
  5. Performs system analysis by establishing application systems scope and objectives, conducting feasibility studies, planning or modifying procedures to solve complex problems, preparing detailed specifications and solving existing system logic difficulties as required. Recommends the best cost effective solutions for the business area; informs and discusses potential business impacts with the client.
  6. Performs complex business and/or clinical process analysis including conducting work flow analysis and developing business information requirements and models. Defines business and/or health information scope and objectives; plans, designs and modifies practical manual and automated business procedures.
  7. Coordinates and provides third level application support to critical system problems and ensures that the application service level agreement in place is written or maintained to meet the business expectations and Informatics capabilities. This may include vendor or 3rd party coordination Coordinates the support rotation and monitors the support queue.
  8. Serves on a variety of Fraser Health wide health service delivery area and departmental committees, task groups, internal working teams and corporate projects.
  9. Maintains knowledge of infrastructure and technologies by remaining aware of current and new technologies

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree in Health Information Science or Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience. Five (5) years of recent experience with business and systems analysis including experience as a project manager. Experience with health and corporate information systems.

Competencies

Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.

Professional/Technical Capabilities:

  • Ability to provide leadership to a variety of project teams in an environment that constantly changes and that has fluctuating priorities.
  • Knowledge of information management, health informatics, business processes, technologies and applications.
  • Knowledge of all components of a technical architecture.
  • Ability to translate business and/or clinical needs into application architecture requirements.
  • Ability to quickly comprehend the functions and capabilities of new technologies.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of the project management process and the systems development life cycle.
  • Demonstrated decision making ability within complex and diverse issues.
  • Demonstrated superior skills in data research, gathering, modeling, and business and systems analysis.
  • Ability to organize work, problem solve, multitask and meet deadlines.
  • Physical ability to perform the duties of the position.
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