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Information Technology
Job Summary
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The Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) provides enterprise-wide informatics leadership at Stanford Medicine Children¿s Health (SMCH). The CNIO reports to the Chief Nurse Executive, Senior Vice President of Patient Care Services for SMCH and the Chief Health Informatics Officer. In collaboration with nursing, physician, operations, and information technology leaders, the CNIO will champion the strategy, adoption, and optimization of information technology at SMCH and partner with Patient Care Services to promote and advance transformative innovations from an informatics perspective. The CNIO leads a multi-disciplinary clinical informatics team and digital transformation team in the design and optimization of clinical information systems, including the electronic health record (EHR), to achieve maximal patient safety, quality of care, and operational efficiency. As such, the CNIO collaborates on the identification, evaluation, and assessment of new clinical information system functionality, developing recommendations on the impact of integration with existing workflows and systems. The CNIO also provides direction for the EHR Training Team, ensuring effective EHR onboarding and ongoing efficiency and optimization training for all SMCH staff members. The CNIO oversees nursing and other clinical super users as they participate in the ongoing optimization and maintenance of the EHR and all related clinical information systems. The CNIO will provide guidance on clinical data and its visualization in alignment with institutional goals. The CNIO will represent Stanford Children¿s Health nationally as a leader in health informatics and will participate on national committees on health IT. The CNIO will be a member of the senior Digi-IS leadership team and the senior patient care services leadership team.
Essential Functions
The essential functions listed are typical examples of work performed by positions in this job classification. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, tasks, and responsibilities. Employees may also perform other duties as assigned.
Employees must abide by all Joint Commission Requirements including but not limited to sensitivity to cultural diversity, patient care, patient rights and ethical treatment, safety and security of physical environments, emergency management, teamwork, respect for others, participation in ongoing education and training, communication and adherence to safety and quality programs, sustaining compliance with National Patient Safety Goals, and licensure and health screenings.
Must perform all duties and responsibilities in accordance with the hospital's policies and procedures, including its Service Standards and its Code of Conduct.
Strategic Leadership
* In partnership with Digi-IS Leadership, supports the strategic planning for digital transformation and clinical informatics innovation for SMCH.
* Actively engages in the development, alignment, and implementation of all operational strategic plans as they re-late to clinical informatics.
* Serves as the strategic liaison for health IT efforts representing patient care services needs across SMCH.
* Understands the impact of regulatory changes and interprets the impact to the EHR and other clinical information systems.
* Develops clinical informatics strategies related to health IT implementation, maintenance, optimization, and re-porting.
* Combines knowledge of patient care, clinical informatics concepts, and change management to effectively ad-dress the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals and patients to promote safe, effective, and efficient use of health IT in the clinical setting.
* Acts as a change agent in the identification, development, planning, implementation, and ongoing value measurement of informatics strategies to support quality patient care and professional practice.
* Incorporates clinical informatics research and evidence-based nursing knowledge into clinical informatics practice and clinical decision support.
* Maintains relationships with key business partners and other senior industry leaders to leverage best practices, evaluate emerging technologies and distribute knowledge internally to inform plans and strategies.
* Works with vendors to proactively strategize on development and/or enhancement of clinical information systems to meet organizational business needs.
* Works with clinical and Digi-IS leaders in evaluating the effectiveness of technologies and workflows that impact clinical users.
* Ensures a competent, technology-enabled workforce.
* Represents Stanford Children¿s clinical informatics program to partners and outside entities. Actively engages with the national clinical informatics community, presents at conferences, stays up-to-date on clinical informatics literature, and develops and shares best practices with colleagues in the clinical informatics community.
Quality
* Coordinates and collaborates with administrative teams, clinical leaders, information technology, process improvement, financial services and quality/regulatory/risk management amongst others in the development of high quality, sustainable and innovative clinical information systems that assist the clinician in their delivery of care.
* In partnership with the Center for Pediatric and Maternal Value, ensures that quality improvement efforts have the highest level of evidence-based clinical informatics support to ensure regulatory compliance, efficient processes and the highest quality clinical outcomes.
* Manages a team of informatics specialists who anticipate, identify, analyze, prioritize, and facilitate resolution of user needs and issues. Coordinates the development of multi-disciplinary user input processes regarding clinical systems and associated workflows.
* Ensures coordination and integration of standard of care practices as it relates to clinical informatics across all clinical departments for quality patient care.
* Provides critical analysis and evaluation of health IT and recommends revision of clinical systems, processes, and workflow to ensure achievement of positive patient outcomes.
Patient Safety
* Ensures that the environment, technology and infrastructure are emphasized in the prevention of medical errors and adverse events.
* Promotes the use of health IT to improve patient safety by designing, developing, implementing, and educating on decision support tools.
* Continuously collects, analyses, and reports data in collaboration with quality on patient safety issues and out-comes.
* Works in partnership with Digi-IS leadership to leverage predic
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