Duties
As the resident expert in clinical informatics and health IT, the CHIO serves as the primary advisor to the Medical Center Director, Chief of Staff, Associate Director, and other facility leaders. The CHIO is expected to be a strong agent for change and must demonstrate an ability to understand the needs of his/her professional counterparts, for example, nurses, physicians, pharmacists, etc. In addition, the CHIO must demonstrate understanding of the EOVAHCS organizational structure and the role informatics plays within the organization…
TECHNOLOGY AND INFORMATICS
- Evaluate clinical computing systems; analyze and evaluate the effect of interventions on health outcomes.
- Enable healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology adjoined to the EHR to deliver quality care by developing, implementing, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing informatics tools and access to them.
- Evaluate, document, analyze, prioritize, and recognize requirements for the improvement of the EHR and other systems in collaboration with the end-user.
- Expand and enhance patient access to patient information through the various initiatives, and further the effective and efficient use of medical information systems for patients…
DATA MANAGEMENT
- Effectively creates, integrates, disseminates and manages data for enterprise applications, processes and entities requiring timely and accurate data delivery.
- Manages the availability, usability, integrity and security of the data in enterprise systems, based on internal data standards and policies that also control data usage.
- Uses automated and manual methods to measure data accuracy, completeness, consistency, computability, and timeliness, with the goal of maintaining data integrity and improving the overall quality of the data (tentative definition).
- Executes the entire standards lifecycle from problem definition, to solution development and eventual retirement. The preponderance of standards management effort in support of Enterprise Data Management is devoted to operational implementation and maintenance of data standards in HIT systems for the collection, analysis and exchange of data…
