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Nurse Practitioner/Physician Assistant: Clinical Informatics
Compensation: $125,000 - $150,000
Saratoga Hospital Medical Group is seeking a full-time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Clinical Informatics Team.
Position Highlights
Saratoga Hospital Medical Group, a multispecialty group of 450 providers including physicians and advanced practice providers, contributes significantly to the hospital’s continued growth and reputation for excellence.
Saratoga Hospital
Saratoga Hospital is a 171-bed independent, locally governed, thriving community hospital and a leading healthcare provider in the region. We have enjoyed continuous growth for more than a decade, along with a reputation for high quality, personalized, compassionate care. Since September 2004, Saratoga Hospital has maintained Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center—the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.
The Albany Med Health System
Saratoga Hospital is an affiliate of the Albany Med Health System. This gives our physicians and APPs access to shared best practices, continuing medical education (CME), and teaching opportunities. This partnership has added access to services typically not offered by community hospitals, as well as a seamless connection to the Capital Region’s only academic medical center and the highly specialized medical care it can provide.
The Compensation And Benefits Package Is Competitive.
About Saratoga Springs
Compensation: $125,000 - $150,000
Saratoga Hospital Medical Group is seeking a full-time Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant to join our Clinical Informatics Team.
Position Highlights
- The Clinical Informatics APP provides technical and application expertise to design, analyze, and optimize clinical information systems for SHMG to ensure that system design and ongoing utilization achieves Saratoga Hospital and SHMG’s objective of standardization, integration, and efficiency and supports compliance with regulatory requirements.
- This position requires a strong understanding of the end user requirements associated with the systems and applications they support, such as clinical documentation needs, quality measures and CMS requirements. This individual must also be comfortable with providing technical assistance both remotely and in person in a clinical setting.
- The Clinical Informatics APP participates in the development of workflows, system configuration, application deployment and support, change documentation and support of staff on application functionality. This requires staying up to date with the applications, ensuring they are functional and meet the requirements of those using the system and the organization.
- Provides clinical and application expertise to design, analyze, and optimize clinical information systems for providers of the SHMG to ensure that system design and ongoing utilization achieve Saratoga Hospital and SHMG’s objective of standardization, integration, and efficiency and supports compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Champions Physician/provider adoption of Clinical IT systems and processes across the SHMG and customizes end product based on needs of provider, specialty and/or location while ensuring consistency in workflow across the enterprise.
- Acts as point for ongoing clinical questions related to EMR and collaborates with operational support to maximize physician / provider efficiency with the clinical EMR.
- Assists with in-basket management based on the needs of the Virtual Support Team. Assists the Director of Business Operations with closing of No-Show Encounters
- Understands key quality metrics and supports organizational achievement of these metrics by monitoring performance, training users how to improve performance and tracking various metrics related to systems use.
- Builds strong relationships with customer base (physician/providers, nurses, super users/lead clinical or clerical staff, practice managers) in all practice locations to support operational efficiencies.
- Develops curriculum and educational content as identified by the SHMG IT subcommittee and provides ongoing in-servicing to maintain Physician/Provider competency.
- Provides end-user go-live and ongoing support of new processes and system use. Provides onboarding education to all new physicians/providers.
- Current New York State licensure or eligibility as a Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant
- Minimum 5 years of experience
- Ability to organize and establish day-to-day priorities.
- Utilizes critical thinking skills in all aspects of the job.
- Must be able to multitask while remaining professional, focused, composed and positive.
- Excellent customer service skills
Saratoga Hospital Medical Group, a multispecialty group of 450 providers including physicians and advanced practice providers, contributes significantly to the hospital’s continued growth and reputation for excellence.
Saratoga Hospital
Saratoga Hospital is a 171-bed independent, locally governed, thriving community hospital and a leading healthcare provider in the region. We have enjoyed continuous growth for more than a decade, along with a reputation for high quality, personalized, compassionate care. Since September 2004, Saratoga Hospital has maintained Magnet® recognition for nursing excellence from the American Nurses Credentialing Center—the highest honor an organization can receive for professional nursing practice.
The Albany Med Health System
Saratoga Hospital is an affiliate of the Albany Med Health System. This gives our physicians and APPs access to shared best practices, continuing medical education (CME), and teaching opportunities. This partnership has added access to services typically not offered by community hospitals, as well as a seamless connection to the Capital Region’s only academic medical center and the highly specialized medical care it can provide.
The Compensation And Benefits Package Is Competitive.
- Health and Prescription Plan, Dental and Vision Insurances
- 403(b) Retirement Plan with employer contributions
- Flexible Spending Account(s) including Medical Reimbursement and Dependent Care Account
- Paid Time Off, PTO for CME, CME stipend, professional dues; professional liability coverage
- $200 annual YMCA discount, a number of supplemental insurance products, services, discount programs and more!
About Saratoga Springs
- Located a half hour from Albany, New York State’s Capital City, and Albany International Airport;
- Three hours from New York City, Montreal and Boston — right on the edge of New England,
- Saratoga County offers family-oriented neighborhoods and communities and excellent schools — both public and private.
- Saratoga and towns throughout the region draw many to a variety of specialty shops, spas, eateries, many with locally sourced food and regionally produced craft beverages.
- Music, art, cultural festivals and farmer’s markets add to the vibrant community feel and social scene.
- Famous venues include: Saratoga Race Course featuring world-class thoroughbred racing, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Spa State Park, and Saratoga National Historic Park.
- Outdoor enthusiasts will love the natural beauty of the Adirondacks, nearby Berkshires and Green Mountains, Saratoga Lake, Lake George, other waterways, and more
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