Reporting to the IS Director the clinical informaticist is the hospital liaison for clinical informatics to the Medical Staff, Pharmacy and other Clinical Departments. Provides Physician systems orientation, CPOE execution, on-boarding, training and meaningful use compliance. Provides Clinical Pharmacy work model development with the Pharmacy Director. Assessment of disease state management and development of processes to improve patient care. With the Information Systems Department, develops reporting and data collection to support clinical departments.

• Assists with physician on-boarding. Plans, Develops and provides education opportunities related
to clinical information systems for the Medical Staff, Physician Extenders, Pharmacy, and other
clinical departments to support patient care, core measures and corporate initiatives.
• Assist with “Start-up” training for new physicians in the community upon application and
orientation.
• Facilitate physician groups to update and maintain Zynx order sets, liaison to corporate and
national evidence-based source recommendations, maintain formulary, reference materials via
physician intranet links (example: antibiograms).

• Responsible for implementation of the hospital Information systems (including CPOE), physician
education plan and new physician integration plan
• Serves as the primary liaison to the medical staff and administration regarding the provision of
patient care and the utilization of clinical Information systems / technology. Includes system use
compliance and meaningful use targets.
• Develops methods to assess information system efficiencies and workflow processes that
improve patient care and facilitates individual physician practice.
• Develops and recommends improvements in the medication management system (medication
reconciliation, medication utilization, core measures etc.)
• Takes a leadership role to address/collaborate with medical staff department heads to improve
quality of care.
• Assesses high utilization disease states and develops plans to improve clinical outcomes.
• Assists Administration and ITDirector with clinical information system recommendations and
implementations.

Education Required: Associates degree in healthcare

Experience: Critical Care work practice, Clinical Information Systems implementation, oversight or programming, Other positions requiring Medical Staff relationships and project development.

DeKalb Regional Medical Center celebrated its 35th anniversary in October 2021. Throughout its history, the team of healthcare providers here have been proud to serve the people of Fort Payne, Alabama.

Today, DeKalb Regional is 134-beds and offers comprehensive services including cardiac catheterization, geriatric psychiatric services, women’s and children’s services, bariatric services, orthopedics services, and many more. DeKalb Regional and its physicians serve patients from throughout Northeast Alabama and Western Georgia.

DeKalb Regional is committed to providing quality care close to home. The hospital is accredited by The Joint Commission and the American College of Cardiology as a Primary Stroke Center and Chest Pain Center. It was also awarded the 2023 Get with the Guidelines Rural Stroke Bronze Quality Award from the American Heart Association. In fall of 2023, DeKalb Regional was one of seven hospitals in Alabama to receive an “A” grade from The Leapfrog Group.

DeKalb Regional Medical Center has 500 employees and more than 100 members of the medical staff.