Pharmacy Informaticist

• Remote work opportunity
• Mon - Fri, Days
• On-call 4-5 weeks a year
• In-person obligations 2-4 times per month

BJC HealthCare is one of the largest nonprofit health care organizations in the United States, delivering services to residents primarily in the greater St. Louis, southern Illinois and southeast Missouri regions. With net revenues of $6.3 billion and more than 30,000 employees, BJC serves patients and their families in urban, suburban and rural communities through its 14 hospitals and multiple community health locations. Services include inpatient and outpatient care, primary care, community health and wellness, workplace health, home health, community mental health, rehabilitation, long-term care and hospice.

BJC is the largest provider of charity care, unreimbursed care and community benefits in the state of Missouri. BJC and its hospitals and health service organizations provide $785.9 million annually in community benefit. That includes $410.6 million in charity care and other financial assistance to patients to ensure medical care regardless of their ability to pay. In addition, BJC provides additional community benefits through commitments to research, emergency preparedness, regional health care safety net services, health literacy, community outreach and community health programs and regional economic development.

BJC’s patients have access to the latest advances in medical science and technology through a formal affiliation between Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children’s Hospital with the renowned Washington University School of Medicine, which consistently ranks among the top medical schools in the country.

Role Purpose

The Pharmacy Informaticist serves as clinical pharmacy and informatics support staff for pharmacists, physicians, physician extenders, and nursing staff to support safety and quality around BJC medication value chain activities by utilizing BJC's instance of Epic, Epic Willow, and EHR adjacent applications. Required to obtain Epic certification(s) within 6 months of hire/transfer date or within 6 weeks of last Epic class completion, whichever is sooner. On-call applies to this position.

Responsibilities

• Apply knowledge of current clinical practice and evidence-based medicine to contribute to design of safe medication delivery and patient outcomes, and participate on key multidisciplinary committees and provide leadership with strategies around the development and integration of pharmaceutical care activities using information technology.
• Participate in workflow analysis to identify and resolve system issues utilizing system knowledge and troubleshooting techniques to provide suggested solutions or workflow re-designs to identified system problems. Assess medication-use systems for vulnerabilities to medication errors and proactively implement strategies to prevent these errors.
• Build, test, implement, and support/maintain master drug files (e.g. ERX records) and CDS tools (e.g., rules, alerts, order sets, preference lists, treatment guidelines/plans, etc.) utilized throughout EHR and CPOE systems to ensure continued scientific and clinical relevance and appropriateness, making modifications to them as necessary. Part of this process is to create content management tickets, and migrate build between environments, attend technical change management calls and discuss proposed changes to production, and ensure customer/end-user approves/accepts proposed build.
• Use ticket management system (e.g. ServiceNow) to communicate with customers, and close tickets as assigned within service level agreements. Complete tickets and optimization requests in order of priority set by governance and management. Contact end-users, explain features of and changes to the EHR and make recommendations (both orally and written) based on the end-users circumstances and clinical relevance.
• Assist in monthly and semi-annual data loads from vendors, quarterly upgrades from EHR vendor, and mining, collating, analyzing, and interpreting of data from these systems to improve patient outcomes. Support successful charge and revenue generation for drug master files.
• On-call applies.
• BJC has determined this is a safety-sensitive position. The ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner is an essential function of this job.

Minimum Requirements

Education

• Doctorate

• Pharmacy

Experience

• 2-5 years

Supervisor Experience

• No Experience

Licenses & Certifications

• RPh

Preferred Requirements

Experience

• 5-10 years

BJC Total Rewards

At BJC we’re committed to providing you and your family with benefits and resources to help you manage your physical, emotional, social and financial well-being.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vison, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance* paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance

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The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this position. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Equal Opportunity Employer