General Description
This Role is similar to the “Practice Workflow and Information Management Redesign Specialists” Role; in addition to that Role’s set of competencies, this Role brings to bear the background and experience of a professional licensed to provide clinical care or a public health professional.
Suggested Background
Individuals in this Role will be licensed clinical or public health professionals; or in the case of public health, they would bring into the Role significant experience in federal, state or local public health agencies.
Competencies
In addition to the activities for the “Practice Workflow and Information Management Redesign Specialist” Role, workers in this Role will be able to:
- Analyze and recommend solutions for health IT implementation problems in clinical and public health settings, bringing clinical expertise directly to bear.
- Advise and assist clinicians in taking full advantage of technology, enabling them to make best use of data in electronic form, including data in registries, to drive improvement in the quality, safety and efficiency of care.
- Assist in selection of vendors and software by helping practice personnel to ask the right questions and evaluate the answers they receive.
- Advocate for users’ needs, acting as a liaison between users, IT staff, and vendors.
- Ensure that the patient/consumer perspective is incorporated into EHR deployments and that full attention is paid in the deployment to critical issues of patient privacy.
- Train practitioners in best use of the EHR system, conforming to the redesigned practice workflow.
Training
Classes and schedule below:
Clinician/ Practitioner Consultant
- Component 6 - Health Management Information Systems
- Component 7 - Working with Health IT Systems
- Component 10 - Fundamentals of Health Workflow Process Analysis and Redesign
- Component 12 - Quality Improvement
- Component 18 - Planning, Management and Leadership for Health IT
- Elective *
*Choose one other HealthIT Component from the NPCC Schedule of Components
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