Senior Clinical Informatics Analyst
*This is a 1-year contract position
*This is an onsite position – Local to Richmond, VA only please
Description:
- The Senior Clinical Informatics Data Analyst supports workflow improvement, clinical data analysis, data validation, and reporting initiatives that inform clinical practice and operational decision-making across Health Service.
- This clinical-facing role focuses on improving clinical workflows, enhancing end-user experience, and supporting evidence-based healthcare operations.
- The position collaborates closely with Health Services EHR teams and technical teams responsible for EHR configuration, implementation, and development.
Responsibilities:
- Document current clinical workflows and identify opportunities for workflow improvement and standardization across facilities.
- Develop and maintain an inventory of Health Services Unit (HSU) clinical workflows and provide prioritized recommendations for optimization.
- Extract, analyze, and interpret data from Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems to answer clinical and operational business questions.
- Create reports, dashboards, and data visualizations that support leadership decision-making and clinical practice improvement.
- Validate EHR data against external data sources to ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability.
- Perform data validation through triangulation with other data elements and records within the EHR system.
- Conduct testing and validation of EHR system updates, enhancements, and configuration changes from an end-user perspective.
- Support validation efforts for Medication Administration Record (MAR) and related clinical technology initiatives.
- Serve as a clinical point of contact for EHR-related questions, issues, and requests from medical staff.
- Collaborate with clinical, operational, and technical stakeholders to improve system functionality and user experience.
- Establish standardized processes for EHR implementation, workflow management, reporting, and data governance.
- Document processes and procedures to ensure continuity of operations and knowledge transfer.
Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Deep understanding of clinical workflows, healthcare operations, and patient care processes.
- Strong knowledge of medical terminology, healthcare data standards, and clinical documentation practices.
- Ability to translate clinical questions into meaningful data analysis and actionable insights.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Experience communicating complex clinical and analytical findings to non-technical audiences.
- Experience collaborating with multidisciplinary clinical and technical teams.
- Proficiency in healthcare reporting, analytics, and data visualization.
- Strong documentation, process improvement, and stakeholder engagement skills.
Preferred Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Clinical background in Nursing, Medicine, Pharmacy, Health Informatics, or a related healthcare discipline.
- Experience working in correctional healthcare environments.
- Experience working in institutional, public-sector, or other highly regulated healthcare settings.
- Experience supporting EHR implementations, upgrades, and optimization initiatives.
- Knowledge of national healthcare interoperability and EHR standards.
- Experience supporting clinical decision support and healthcare quality improvement programs.
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- Minimum 5 years of experience independently structuring unclassified medical data from unstructured clinical text and mapping data elements to standard medical vocabularies.
- Minimum 5 years of experience extracting, querying, and analyzing data from Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems.
- Minimum 5 years of experience validating EHR data through triangulation, reconciliation, and quality assurance processes.
- Minimum 5 years of experience documenting clinical workflows, EHR data entry processes, and healthcare data management practices.
- Minimum 5 years of experience communicating clinical and analytical findings to medical staff, leadership, and non-technical stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience applying national EHR standards and best practices within healthcare information systems.
- Demonstrated experience standardizing processes during EHR implementation and optimization efforts.
- Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting multidisciplinary clinical workflows.
- Demonstrated experience validating EHR data against external data sources.
- Experience working in multidisciplinary clinical environments with multiple stakeholder groups.
- Experience supporting EHR testing, validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and end-user support activities.
- Experience working with EHR systems in a clinical capacity.
Education/Certification:
- Bachelor’s degree in health informatics, Healthcare Administration, Nursing, Public Health, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field required.
- Master’s degree in health informatics, Clinical Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Data Analytics, or a related discipline preferred.
- Clinical licensure or healthcare credential (RN, PharmD, MD, PA, NP, or equivalent) preferred.
- Relevant healthcare informatics, analytics, EHR, or clinical systems certifications preferred.
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