INFORMATICS SPECIALIST

All across UW Medicine, our employees collaborate to perform the highest quality work with integrity and compassion and to create a respectful, welcoming environment where every patient, family, student and colleague is valued and honored.

UW Medicine’s IT Services department has an outstanding opportunity for an Informatics Specialist!

UW Medicine’s Information Technology Services (ITS) department is a shared services organization that supports all of UW Medicine.  UW Medicine is comprised of Harborview Medical Center (HMC), UW Medical Center-Montlake (UWMC-Montlake), UW Medical Center-Northwest (UWMC-NW), Valley Medical Center (VMC), UW Neighborhood Clinics (UWNC), UW Physicians (UWP), UW School of Medicine (SOM) and Airlift Northwest (ALNW).  In addition, UW Medicine shares in the ownership and governance of Children’s University Medical Group and Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (a partnership between UW Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research and Seattle Children’s).  ITS is responsible for the ongoing support and maintenance of the infrastructure and applications which support all of these institutions, along with the implementation of new services and applications that are used to support and further the UW Medicine mission.

In collaboration with UW Medicine IT Services (ITS) and under the general guidance of the Clinical Informatics Manager, the primary focus of the Informatics Specialist position is to support multidisciplinary health care teams in the specification and implementation of clinical information systems to support the UW Medicine continuum of care.  In addition to providing informatics expertise and innovation, the Informatics Specialist coordinates the project tasks for successful outcomes, serving as a liaison between the application team, the project manager, and sponsors.

Areas of responsibility include, but are not limited to: