Healthcare Informaticist

Facility:

West Campus (Chase): 303 E Republic Rd, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807






Department:

1700 IT Clinical Informatics

Scheduled Weekly Hours:

40

Hours:

Varied

Work Shift:

Day Shift (United States of America)

CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:

Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.

Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group .

Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.

Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).

Benefits

Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)

For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth

Job Description:

• As a Healthcare Informaticist (HCI), you will provide informatics guidance and act as a liaison between the clinical and IT departments, leveraging both health care and informatics knowledge to provide innovative solutions. The Healthcare Informaticist role will collaborate with clinicians, providers, and ancillary departments in analyzing clinical requirements specific to the organization. The HCI should be knowledgeable in clinical documentation needs, regulations, and standard operating procedures essential in the EHR, Participate in testing and validating solutions and clinical documentation tools, current state mapping and future state workflow development, content issue resolution, implementation, optimization, and end user support. Have a strong understanding of healthcare strategy, operations, and ability to adjust to changing needs. Manage relationships with department contacts, providing clinical subject matter expertise. The HCI will collaborate with Informatics team for general instruction on routine work and detailed instruction on new projects or assignments.Education:
• ▪ Required: Licensure, certificate or experience in healthcare related field
• ▪ Preferred: Associate or bachelors degree in healthcare related field
• Experience:
• ▪ Required: 5 years clinical informatics experience
• Skills:
• •Participation on organizational working groups focusing on the strategic or transformation needs of the health care system in the implementation of clinical information systems.
• •Leads project management as it pertains to informatics, ensuring coordination and integration of standards of care practice across all clinical departments.
• •Mentors new and junior informatics team members, actively shares knowledge, skills and experiences.
• •Decisively makes high-quality decisions, even when based on incomplete information or in the face of uncertainty.
• •Conveys clear expectations and follows up consistently
• •Ability to share sensitive messages or unpopular points of view in a motivating manner
• Licensure/Certification/Registration:
• ▪ Preferred: Applicable licensure