Director – Health Informatics

Job Summary:

The Director – Health Informatics supports the organization in the planning, design, build validation, and testing of Sidra’s Clinical Information Systems including the Cerner EMR and ancillary systems. This includes directing the health informatics program at Sidra, representing the clinicians input into the EMR, driving adoption of clinical information systems.

The Director will ensure alignment of Clinical Systems design and use with best practice, and standard design using the evidence-based approach, and compliance with international accreditation requirements, including JCI, HIMSS to ensure patients’ safety and information confidentiality. The incumbent directly supports the department both internally and externally, building strong relationships at all levels of the informatics community including Ministry of Public Health (MOPH), Hamad Medical corporation (HMC), and other healthcare facilities.

S/he guides and directs engagement of clinicians in the informatics governance around the optimization, and design changes in the clinical systems. S/he is accountable for the provision of clinician training, awareness, and education; and supporting adoption reporting.

Key Role Accountabilities:

• Oversees, and validates clinical workflow and processes related to clinical systems and advices how the EMR design and adoption can be optimized to increase efficacy and efficiency.
• Reviews the technical design of the clinical systems including Cerner EMR, and ensures meeting Sidra standards, best practices.
• Ensures that clinicians are well informed on how to use the EMR to enter timely, accurate, and complete clinical data for patient care.
• Promotes systems interoperability and integration.
• Supports Governance around Cerner EMR and other clinical systems optimization and change management, and provides Medical direction.
• Supports best practices in EMR design and use by utilizing analytics tools and standard design documents.
• Supports DMI education team to have knowledge management and utilize data to support proper adoption, and ensure benefit realization.
• Oversees Clinical Transformation of Patient informatics, Patient Management systems, Order Management, Electronic Documentation, Clinical Decision Support Systems, Unified Telecommunication and interoperability systems.
• Supports the ED - Quality, Patient Experience and Health Informatics in identifying and promoting research and development of topic relevant for applied health informatics, and promoting data-driven measures and process improvement of health informatics.
• Engages care providers with varying roles, including physicians, nurse practitioners, nursing staff, pharmacist, ancillary department personnel, and medical records professionals in the development, integration and use of clinical information systems. 
• Manages design principles and prioritization mechanism to support a safe and personalized care experience for patients, and accessible, informative and paperless digital environment for clinicians.
• Reviews health informatics trends, experiences and approaches, and develops technical and application implementation strategies. Assists in the development of strategic and tactical plans for clinical information systems.
• Leads the informatics design of clinical pathway models with physician, nursing and administrative leadership, and assists in the presentation and modification of these models or guidelines to gain maximum efficacy and support for patient care and service. 
• Leads development, deployment and change management of solutions that gather information for clinical benchmarking, determination of disease severity, and analysis of practice variation.
• Provides clinical and technical expertise in designing workflows, clinical systems content, configuration, and integration; and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) modules.
• Fosters innovative solutions and supports creative problem solving in the field of informatics
• Adheres to Sidra’s standards as they appear in the Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies
• Adheres to and promotes Sidra’s Values

Qualifications, Experience And Skills:

  ESSENTIAL PREFERRED Education Bachelor’s degree in nursing, medicine or other clinical healthcare related profession with additional education and training in informatics Master’s Degree in Informatics Experience

• 10+ years of experience with progressive leadership experience in clinical healthcare field with at least 5+ years practice in healthcare Informatics leadership roles in an academic medical centre.
• Recent and strong experience with Cerner/Oracle.

Previous experience as Director of Informatics Certification and Licensure Informatics Nursing Certification (RN-BC®), AHIC, CPHIMS or other accepted health informatics certification Professional Membership   ANIA, HIMSS Job Specific Skills and Abilities

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with diverse personalities 
• Respectful of others and capable of delivering on promises. 
• Demonstrated knowledge of how information technology impacts health care processes and disease prevention, and an understanding of requirements necessary to achieve ‘return on value’ from information technology expenditures
• Demonstrated skills as an active listener and change agent, able to impart information effectively Demonstrated excellent presentation skills to audiences of all sizes.
• Ability to form strong relationships with executive leadership, IT and Clinical staff
• Strong communication skills, especially the ability to deliver complex messages between the clinical staff and ITEffective project and change management skills
• Belief and enthusiasm in use of IT systems to improve the delivery of care 
• Strong leadership skills 
• Effective listening and negotiating skills Patience
• Strong organizational and administrative skills
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills and proven ability to work effectively in a busy hospital environment
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
• Fluency in written and spoken English

Sidra Medicine a healthy population is essential to a strong, prosperous society, and throughout 2020, Sidra continued to provide uninterrupted comprehensive specialist healthcare services for children and young people; and exceptional maternity, gynecology, and reproductive medical services for women, previously unavailable in Qatar and the region.” – H.H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of Qatar Foundation  Sidra Medicine represents the vision of Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser who serves as its Chairperson. This high-tech facility is home to world-class patient care, scientific expertise, and educational resources.