Health Informatics Specialist

Client: Children's Hosp of Philadelphia

Health Informatics Specialist III

Type: Contract (W2)

Length: 1 Year

Location: Fully Remote

Industry: Healthcare (Pediatrics)

We're seeking an experienced Health Informatics Specialist III to support enterprise‑level clinical and operational initiatives across a major pediatric healthcare system. This role partners with clinical, business, and DTS teams to design, implement, optimize, and evaluate clinical and non‑clinical information systems.

A major focus is virtual care, including telehealth, remote patient monitoring, workflow redesign, and capability transfer to internal teams.

Required Skills

• Telehealth implementation
• Remote patient monitoring
• Clinical workflow redesign
• Requirements gathering
• Healthcare operations
• Facilitation skills
• Capability transfer: mentoring EHI team members, creating reusable templates, developing workflow standards, documenting lessons learned, training internal resources

Preferred Experience

• 5+ years nursing/clinical/operational experience
• 3+ years informatics experience
• Progressive leadership
• Complex workflow support (nursing, interprofessional care, revenue cycle, patient access, ancillary services, scheduling/throughput)
• Epic experience
• Ambulatory + pediatric operations
• Digital patient engagement, virtual nursing, hospital‑at‑home, AI‑enabled virtual care
• Consumer digital health strategy

Strategic Work: current‑state assessments, future‑state design, virtual care roadmap, governance, KPIs

Tactical Work: workflow mapping, stakeholder interviews, business process analysis, vendor evaluation, implementation planning

Implementation: design sessions, Epic build support, operational readiness, testing, adoption/optimization

Key Responsibilities

• Act as liaison between DTS and clinical/operational teams
• Lead unit‑level teams and support enterprise governance
• Analyze DTS solutions for clinical, operational, and research impact
• Communicate updates to stakeholders and present findings
• Support downtime workflows and EHR reconciliation
• Standardize processes using evidence‑based and regulatory‑aligned methods
• Perform gap analyses, risk/benefit assessments, and testing
• Document current/future state workflows
• Serve as consultant for complex process improvement initiatives
• Ensure integration across Epic modules and track project progress
• Support data quality, decision‑support tools, and auditing processes
• Participate in Epic vendor visits
• Support nursing research, training materials, and ongoing system education
• Engage in scholarly activities (publications, presentations, posters)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required