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Summary:
- The Physician Informatics Consultant serves as a strategic clinical leader during the planning, discovery, and harmonization phases of the PennChart/eHealth Epic merge. This role bridges Information Technology with clinical and operational teams to ensure build decisions are clinically vetted, workflow-aligned, and strategically prioritized to optimize care delivery and reduce clinician burden.
- This position provides dedicated, high-level support for the merge initiative, allowing permanent staff to maintain operational continuity while leveraging the deep institutional knowledge of experienced or former physician informaticists. The Physician Informatics Consultant reports to the CHIO (or designated Epic Merge Clinical Leadership).
Responsibilities:
- Lead discovery and harmonization of clinical workflows across Ambulatory and Inpatient settings to support a unified health system experience.
- Evaluate and standardize order sets, order build, and clinical documentation templates and other key operational/clinical content across legacy systems (LGH and Penn).
- Advise on historical data strategy and migration planning to ensure longitudinal patient records remain accurate and actionable.
- Lead clinical evaluation and decision-making for EHR content and clinical decision support to reduce physician burden and optimize care delivery.
- Facilitate consensus-building sessions across clinical departments to reach agreement on standardized Epic builds and workflows.
- Serve as a liaison between Information Technology and clinical/operational teams; translate clinical requirements into build-ready specifications.
- Develop and maintain prioritized merge deliverables; distinguish critical-path requirements from elective build requests and support scope control.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and clinical impacts of technical constraints; communicate tradeoffs and mitigation options to stakeholders.
- Support data governance and content stewardship to maintain alignment with safety, quality, regulatory, and operational standards.
- Leverage institutional knowledge of PennChart and legacy eHealth workflows to reduce rework and accelerate decision-making.
- Provide milestone-based support aligned to project phases, with flexible effort scaling (0.2-0.5 FTE) as needed.
- Performs duties in accordance with Penn Medicine and entity values, policies, and procedures.
- Other duties as assigned to support the unit, department, entity, and health system organization.
Credentials:
- A board-certified or board-eligible physician (MD, DO) is preferred; active or former clinical practice acceptable per role design.
Education or Equivalent Experience:
- MD or DO degree is required.
- Active or former board certification with significant clinical practice history within the Penn Medicine and/or LGH networks is required.
We believe that the best care for our patients starts with the best care for our employees. Our employee benefits programs help our employees get healthy and stay healthy. We offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits program that includes one of the finest prepaid tuition assistance programs in the region. Penn Medicine employees are actively engaged and committed to our mission. Together we will continue to make medical advances that help people live longer, healthier lives.
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