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Location

Mississippi | United States

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Job description

Manager of Clinical Applications

Mississippi
United States / Full-Time / Monday - Friday 0800-1630After hours, weekends and Holidays as needed / Singing River Health System Hospital - Pascagoula

PositionOverview:
The Clinical Applications Manager leads, oversees, and facilitates the daily operations of Clinical Applications to include the planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling functions within each department / work unit. He/She ensures that the policies, procedures and practices of the work units are in compliance with the patient care standards established by the Health System, The Joint Commission, and other accrediting or regulatory agencies.The Manager ensures the highest quality of services and product delivery is maintained by each work unit.
The Clinical Applications Manager assumes the professional responsibilities for assisting with the direction and management of activities required for the implementation and maintenance of clinical computer applications. He/She garners in-depth knowledge of all systems within the area of Reporting, and serves as a liaison between end users and the Information Systems staff. The Clinical Applications Manager performs in-depth analysis of data models, data collection, report creation, and other technical issues associated with the use of business analytic and financial software. He/She maintains a knowledge and understanding of human-computer interfaces, applied informatics science, meaningful use and knowledge management, leadership support, socio-technical issues, informatics research, and workflow analysis. He/she works in a cooperative and consultative relationship with the Senior Leadership Team, Nurse Management Team, Ancillary Leadership, IT Department Leadership, and other disciplines under the direction of the Director of IT.He/she acts as a mentor, advocate, liaison, educator, resource, and troubleshooter to coordinate these activities.
DISCLAIMER: This is not necessarily an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, efforts, requirements or working conditions associated with the job. While this is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current job, management reserves the right to revise the job or to require that other or different tasks be performed as assigned.

Education:
Bachelor's degree in a Clinical discipline, Computer Science, Business Administration or Healthcare related field required. Master's degree in Nursing Informatics, Business Administration or Health Administration preferred.

License:
N/A

Certification:
Certification in a Clinical Epic module or Epic Cogito/Clarity required at (or within the first 90 days of) job start (must complete required continuing education).
Various Epic certifications or Certification as Project Management Professional (PMP) from the Project Management Institute preferred.

Experience:
A minimum of five (5) years' experience developing, implementing, operating, or maintaining information systems in an integrated healthcare delivery system, to include hospitals and/or clinic settings. Previous installation experience with healthcare systems databases and interfaces in hospitals and/or clinic settings or with a healthcare system vendor required. Experience leading teams of individuals and the ability to manage personnel and projects effectively.

Reports to:
Director, Information Systems

Supervises:
Leads and Analysts within Clinical Applications and Business Intelligence sections.

Physical Demands:
Work is moderately active: involves sitting with frequent requirements to move about the office, move about the facility, and to travel to another facility within the SRHS service area. Work involves exerting a negligible amount of force frequently to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Work involves using repetitive motions: substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers while operating standard office equipment such as computer keyboard, copier, and 10-key.
Work involves being able to perceive the nature of sound at normal speaking levels with or without correction; the ability to make fine discriminations in sound. Work requires close visual acuity and the ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus, i.e. shift gaze from viewing a computer monitor to forms/printed material that are closer to compare data at close vision.
Must be able to be active for extended periods of time without experiencing undue fatigue. Must be able to work flexible hours.

Mental Demands:
Must maintain a knowledge and understanding of human-computer interfaces, applied informatics science, meaningful use and knowledge management, leadership support, socio-technical issues, informatics research, and workflow analysis. Job requires maintaining a current working knowledge of hospital/clinical workflow and operations; and a working knowledge of medical terminology.
Must demonstrate keen mental faculties/assessment and decision making abilities. Must demonstrate communication / speaking / enunciation skills to receive and give information in person and by telephone. Must possess emotional stability conducive to dealing with high stress levels. Must demonstrate ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
Must demonstrate expertise in healthcare compliance: knowledge of privacy and security regulations, confidentiality laws, access and release of information practices and procedures. Must have project management and project execution experience on small to medium projects. Must have demonstrated experience leading small teams on projects implementing health information systems.

Special Demands:
Work requires the ability to function independently, adapt to workload demands, set priorities, understand and set goals. Must possess highly developed organizational, planning and management skills; must demonstrate excellent oral communication skills. Work requires the ability to create and maintain a collaborative work environment.
Work requires traveling throughout the SRHS service area with the employee providing his/her own transportation; valid driver license required. Out-of-state travel for education purposes is required.
Moderate to advanced knowledge and skills in using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint required.

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