Watson Health-Senior Clinical Informaticist, MD
The Senior Clinical Informaticist will provide clinical leadership in the design and development of cognitive workflow solutions at the point of care. In collaboration with cross functional teams, representing, researchers, designers, developers, and offering management, he/she will engage with key stakeholders and institutions to develop innovative solutions that improve care through enhanced clinician-individual partnership about health.
*The role will be located in a Watson Health Strategic Site; Cambridge, MA, Yorktown, NY, or San Francisco, CA
The Senior Clinical Informaticist will:
- Provide clinical and informatics guidance to research and engineering teams to draw meaningful insights from real-world clinical data
- Provide expertise and guidance on how to incorporate meaningful data at the point of care for provider decision making
- Provide strategic/clinical/population health expertise to offering management and innovation teams to inform high value solution development and intuitive, seamless clinical/population health workflow design.
- Collaborate among quality measurement and product offerings teams to ensure quality and safety of solutions.
- Engage with key health/healthcare stakeholders (e.g., key opinion leaders, professional associations, government, policy organizations, etc.) to inform and shape cognitive health marketplace and represent IBM Watson Health point of view.
- Identify relevant and generalizable sources of data across health ecosystem, including but not limited to electronic health records, social determinants of health and financial systems, that will enhance the value of the offerings.
- Service as a subject matter expert to the design and offering team, representing clinical data and workflow expertise.
- Participate in technical and clinical research leading to published evaluation studies.
- Participate in medical informatics professional community
You should possess:
- Leadership/management experience (e.g., EHR implementation, innovation, redesign) desirable
- Significant understanding of major trends in healthcare policy, practice environment, and health IT
- Demonstrated leadership, team building and people skills
- Leader, visionary, consensus builder, innovative, effective, ethical
- Successful effective verbal, written, and presentation skills
It’s time to transform health with new ways of working to improve approaches to care, productivity and well-being. Watson Health’s cognitive systems understand, reason and learn – helping to translate information into knowledge that can help drive more informed decision-making. With cognitive computing, we can see and analyze more data than ever before – and achieve more than we ever thought possible.
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Required Professional and Technical Expertise
- MD required
- Formal bio-medical informatics or clinical informatics training or extensive proven experience in medical informatics
- 5 or more years in medical practice, preferably in a large health system
- 5 or more years’ experience in health information technology development, research, or implementation; experience implementing an electronic health record system desirable
- 3 years’ experience in scientific methods, data analysis and methods.
*Preferred Professional and Technical Expertise
- Technical degree (e.g., medical informatics, CS, EE, engineering) preferred
