Health Informatics Officer
Dar Al Shifa Hospital
- Kuwait
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Analyze and interpret patient, medical-related, or information systems data to improve clinical services.
- Analyze computer and information technologies to determine applicability to health practice administration and back-office functions.
- Design, develop, select, test, implement, and evaluate new or modified informatics solutions, data structures, and decision-support mechanisms to support clinical workflows and information management.
- Develop or deliver training programs for health information technology, creating operating manuals as needed.
- Develop or implement policies or practices in coordination with involved Departments needed for redesigning workflows based on evidence-based practices.
- Implement or evaluate health information technology applications, tools, processes or structures to assist nurses, physicians, and clinical support staff with data retrieval.
- Provide, support or follow-up pre-requisites needed in maintaining frontend functionalities and reports in the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).
- Translate nursing and medical practice information between clinicians and IT analysts in order to accurately design and implement workflows and reports.
- Monitor physician and nurses EMR adoptability to provide timely and efficient training to reduce patient care disruption.
- Monitor proper data entry by health care professionals to ensure precise hospital database which will be used for administrative purposes (audit, statistics, review, and reporting).
- Perform other duties as assigned, to meet Departmental and Hospital goals and objectives.
- Ensures safety standards (occupational and patient safety) are complied.
- Ensures quality and patient safety practices are followed
- Provides or promotes people centered care
- Promotes inclusive health by providing equitable and accessible care to patients and families with special needs.
- Energetic team player seeking challenging position in health informatics
- Experience with CERNER Millennium hospital information system preferred
- Knowledge of trends and innovations in the area of health IT.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong organizational skills, with great attention to detail
- Ability to work under pressure
- Knowledge of Medical terminology
- Ability to solve problems and inefficiencies via process improvement
- Strong analytical skills related to information gathering and interpreting
- HIM staff
- Clinical Staff
- IT Staff