Epic Clinical Informatics Pharmacist - Remote
City of Hope
Job posting number: #7298666 (Ref:10028612)
Posted: January 17, 2025
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
As a successful candidate, you will:
The Clinical Informatics Pharmacist acts as a liaison between the clinical departments and IT. Leveraging both clinical knowledge and informatics knowledge, the Clinical Informatics Pharmacist provides innovative solutions utilizing best practices and use of standards to help facilitate the creation of scalable and maintainable system solutions. The Clinical Informatics Pharmacist will work with multidisciplinary teams including physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health professionals as well as operational leadership and IT to promote safe, efficient, effective, timely, and optimal use of medications. The Clinical Informatics Pharmacist, through multidisciplinary collaboration ensures that system design follows best practice design principles. Will develop clinical content related to medications in collaboration with other key clinical stakeholders for clinical applications such as Epic and will coordinate activities related to Clinical Pathways. Works closely with the build team to ensure product functional design matches system capabilities and architecture.
- Provide leadership and expert consultation on the design, development, and implementation of process and programs related to the clinical information systems and Electronic Health Record pertaining to medication management and in alignment with The Joint Commission standards
- Facilitate multidisciplinary team collaboration- physicians, nurses, pharmacists and other health care professionals to evaluate current state and develop future state design of medication management review and updates.
- Facilitate timely review and updates oof order sets and treatment plans as required by City of Hope policy and escalate concerns of non-compliance to the physician quality, nursing and pharmacy leadership if/when needed
- Coordinate teams and direct members for project planning and execution.
- Assist in designing the system that is user-friendly and that the User Interface layer presents content, format and navigation in a logical, useful and efficient manner for clinical use adhering to procedures and policies of the organization.
- Develop content and processes with the Pharmacy system in mind and strive for standardization
- Coordinate Clinical Pathway activities
- In collaboration with key stakeholders, assess clinician enhancement requests, and champion the requests through the Governance Committees and change management processes.
- Assist IT when necessary to troubleshoot and work with the appropriate teams to develop resolution for issues that are identified.
- Utilizes project management methodologies when appropriate.
- Ensure that design connects evidence-based medicine literature and guidelines and promotes evidence-based practice.
- Maintain a process for periodic review of application content with updates to content as required by evidence and best practices and clinical requirements.
- Ensure that design reduces unnecessary variation in care and care processes promoting standardization across COH System.
- Understand application requirements from pharmacy, clinical, quality, regulatory, and operational perspectives.
- Create and implement change management plans through a predesigned framework and model gleaned from best practice when appropriate
- Learn industry trends and recommend improvements of application, training and adoption.
- Responsible for facilitating and providing department specific training or conduct training when needed.
- Position may require travel between various community clinics and its affiliates.
- Performs other related duties as assigned or requested.
Your qualifications should include:
- Degree in Pharmacy (Pharm D)
- 5+ years in a pharmacist role or
- 3 years in a Pharmacist role and 2 years of experience in healthcare Information Technology experience.
- Active board of pharmacy license
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, please click here.
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Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $75.02 - $120.03 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.