Pharmacy Informatics Specialist: Epic Willow

Children's Mercy KC • Kansas City, MO

1d • $58 • Hybrid

About The Position

Pharmacy Informatics Specialist integrates pharmacy practice, computer science and information science to manage and communicate the data systems in Clinical practice and to aid in pharmacy operations. The Specialist manages multiple clinical software systems with a high degree of complexity and interoperability. Effectively leads multidisciplinary teams that include physicians, clinical personnel, peers, and administrative staff to facilitate process improvements associated with evidence-based standards of care. The Specialist manages the design, coding, build, testing, documentation, implementation and maintenance of clinical systems. Understands the capabilities of current systems to facilitate clinical process redesign and continued improvement to reduce redundancy and standardize clinical practice and documentation. As the liaison with the user departments, the Specialist coordinates custom programming, change management, and system optimization to attain high quality patient outcomes. The Specialist maintains up-to-date knowledge of trends and advances in Pharmacy and in health care informatics, as well as new developments in hardware and software technology. Provides guidance and training to less experienced analysts and specialists. The Specialist is expected to focus the full potential of their pharmacy knowledge and experience in the assessment and improvements of electronic medication processes that are safe, effective and appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree
• PharmD or RPh Degree in pharmacy from an accredited school and 5-7 years experience As a practicing pharmacist.
• Licensed Pharmacist - MO Employees must obtain Licensed Pharmacist - MO or equivalent within 90 days
• Epic Willow Inpatient Certification Required within 120 days of hire OR Epic Willow Ambulatory Certification Required within 120 days of hire

Nice To Haves

• Pediatric Healthcare
• Informatics pharmacist experience.

Responsibilities

• Designs, builds, implements, upgrades, manages and maintains multiple clinical software systems with a high degree of complexity and interoperability
• Help develop and maintain tools that contribute to the quality of pharmacy clinical services and operations aligning with established pharmacy policies, procedures and protocols.
• Liaison between Information Systems and pharmacy department.
• Leads change management and system optimization to facilitate process improvement.
• Participates in organizational and departmental quality improvement projects and medication use evaluation activities and facilitates effective communication relative to the initiatives.
• Maintains competence required for current job title/position.
• Completes goals as set by self and supervisor for evaluation period.

Benefits

• The benefits plans at Children’s Mercy are one of many reasons we are recognized as one of the best places to work in Kansas City. Our plans are designed to meet the changing needs of our employees and their families.
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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees