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Join a hospital where everyone makes a difference! Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) is a thriving community hospital that proudly provides acute care services including: Emergency Surgery Medicine Womens and Childrens Health Intensive Care Mental Health and Inpatient Rehabilitation.
Our vision is to creating healthier communities together Our dedicated and skilled staff are passionate about providing outstanding patient-centred care and an exceptional patient experience to residents of the Waterloo Region and beyond.
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CMH has a new and exciting digital health strategy focused on improving and implementing new applications as we advance towards a new Hospital Information System (HIS). To fulfill our objectives of growing our services to better meet the needs of our community transforming the way we work to create a more joyful and productive work environment leading boldly through preparation for our changing role and providing leadership in how care is provided in the community Cambridge Memorial Hospital must build a diverse health informatics team.
Clinical Informatics Specialists transform healthcare by analyzing designing implementing and evaluating information and communication systems that enhance individual and population health outcomes improve patient care and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The Clinical Informatics Specialist collaborates closely with the Information Technology Department Clinical Programs Professional Practice Health Records Quality and Risk and vendors to translate clinical needs into technical solutions.
Reporting to the Manager of Clinical Informatics the Clinical Informatics Specialist is a clinician with specialty knowledge in informatics who will lead digital health initiatives by successfully building inter-professional collaborations across programs in partnership with healthcare clinicians and Information Technology professionals to ensure adoption and sustained utilization of high-quality hospital information systems.

The Clinical Informatics Specialist for Oncology possesses strong leadership skills to successfully liaise and collaborate with other health care providers translate clinical needs to support technical workflows in Oracle Cerners PowerChart Oncology module.
The Clinical Informatics Specialist leads the transformation of clinical processes and workflows in collaboration with organizational and project leadership.
The Clinical Informatics Specialist draws on their oncology experience from the disciplines of medicine nursing pharmacy or allied health to represent inter-professional practice requirements for specialized clinical applications decision support tools and highly reliable data. The advance practice and academic credentials in a healthcare discipline coupled with informatics experience enable value added knowledge translation for clinical applications.
With the skill knowledge and judgement from the diverse domains within healthcare and information technology the Clinical Informatics Specialist effectively participates in the development and implementation of PowerChart - Oncology and leads customization workflow redesign and people and process change management ensuring successful implementation optimal adoption user proficiency and sustained utilization. Further to these responsibilities oversight of quality management is required to ensure quality data and realization of the technologies value propositions.
The Clinical Informatics Specialist applies project management skills to successfully monitor scope timelines deliverables and user expectations. They are skilled at monitoring scope creep while being receptive to high priority addition they recognize record mitigate and manage risks throughout the project lifecycle.
This role will assist in ensuring that new clinical documentation technology is used appropriately established technical and quality standards are followed solutions are cost effective and the information needs of clients are met. Responsibilities also include the development and updating of policies and procedures pertaining to the use of PowerChart Oncology.

Regulated Health Professional with current registration/certificate of competence with applicable professional college required
Bachelors degree in a Clinical/Health Informatics field required.
Masters degree in a clinical/Health Informatics/Technology/Business field preferred
Certification in Clinical Informatics Project Management Change Management considered an asset
At least 3 years experience in a clinical informatics or related technology role

Solid understanding of the healthcare system and hospital sector
Demonstrated understanding of how clinical requirements can translate into a technical solution
Knowledge of relational databases database management and data schemes
Evaluation quality management and continuous quality improvement experience
Understanding of marketing principles and commitment to customer service
Proficient in Microsoft Office 365 suite products (Project Visio Access Excel Word PowerPoint SharePoint MS Teams)
Working knowledge of Crystal Report development and SQL query tools an asset
Familiarity with PHIPA and PIPEDA legislation RNAO Best Practice Guidelines Health Outcomes for Better Improved Care (HOBIC) workload measurement and other key clinical data points relevant to outcomes measures
Understands key information technology concepts and components (e.g. networks storage devices operating systems information retrieval data warehousing application firewalls etc.) Demonstrates respect for the joint values and governance of integrated project teams

As part of our commitment to the health and safety of our patients staff and community from COVID-19 subject to any accommodation required by applicable human rights legislation Cambridge Memorial Hospital requires that all staff have received all required doses of a COVID-19 vaccine approved by Health Canada.

The successful external applicant is required to provide the applicable criminal record check as requested by Human Resources in accordance with federal and provincial legislation. Valid criminal record checks are in original format and dated with two months from date of conditional offer from CMH.

CMH Inclusion Statement

At Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) community matters to us. We acknowledge and are grateful for the opportunity to meet work and offer healthcare on what is the traditional territories for the Anishinaabe the Haudenosaunee and the Chinnonton.

We welcome all applicants and encourage members of equity-deserving groups including Indigenous and LGBTQ2SIA communities regardless of race gender sexual orientation gender identity or expression lifestyle age educational background national origin religion neurodiversity or physical ability. To support all of us in this journey Cambridge Memorial Hospital is an employee partner with the Canadian Centre for Diversity & Inclusion (CCDI) and provides access to all CMH members to CCDI resources and education. Mari Iromoto Executive Champion Diversity Equity and Inclusion
Cambridge Memorial Hospital (CMH) proudly integrates AI-based technologies into its applicant screening process to enhance recruitment. CMHs AI serves to assist not replace human decision-making with results audited to ensure quality and equity. This initiative reinforces the hospitals commitment to Equity Diversity and Inclusion ensuring the best talent is selected while adhering to its core values.