Job Description
Title: Sr Director - Laboratory Informaticist
Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Work Location: 55 Water Street, New York / Hybrid-Remote
Initial Contract: 13 weeks
Pay Range: $(160.00 - 170.00)/hr on W2 all-inclusive without benefits
Start: Upon completion of compliance and initiation of credentialing with the Medical Staff Office
Job Description:
- The Sr. Director, Laboratory Informaticist will serve as the clinical and technical authority responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and optimization of laboratory information systems (LIS) and their integration with a multi-site hospital health system’s clinical and operational platform.
- This physician leader will bridge the gap between clinical laboratory medicine, information technology, and health system leadership, ensuring all informatics initiatives support high-quality patient care, operational efficiency, and adherence to all regulatory and accreditation standards.
- This role is approximately 80% remote and up to 20% on-site.
- This is subject to change especially for critical initiatives.
- The selected candidate must be able to come into the office and health system facilities to perform required work within 48 hours.
Summary of Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provides Strategic Leadership in line with the mission and vision of NYC H+H
- Develop and execute the strategic vision for laboratory informatics, aligning system goals with the health system's overall clinical and operational strategy.
- Lead the integration of laboratory systems (LIS, middleware, instruments) with enterprise-wide electronic health records (EHR) and clinical systems across all multi-site facilities.
- Serve as a subject matter expert to executive leadership, IT, and clinical departments on best practices for lab data management, interoperability (e.g., HL7, and system optimization)
- Drive change management and adoption of new systems and workflows by clinical and laboratory staff.
- Oversee the smooth onboarding and transition of new laboratory systems, ensuring minimal disruption to clinical services and maximum data integrity.
- Design, validate, and optimize clinical and lab workflows impacted by new or existing LIS/HER integration to enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and support data-driven decision-making.
- Provide medical oversight on system build, validation, and testing activities, including ensuring accurate result reporting, reference range mapping, and critical value alerts.
- Analyze clinical and laboratory data to identify trends, areas for improvement, and opportunities for innovative informatics solutions.
- Provides leadership and guidance on Laboratory Quality, and Regulatory Compliance.
- Ensures continuous compliance of all laboratory informatics systems and processes with regulatory bodies, including CLIA, CAP, The Joint Commission, and data privacy standards (e.g., HIPAA).
- Lead the governance structure for laboratory data, establishing policies and procedures for data integrity, security, access, and retention.
- Direct system validation activities required for regulatory compliance for new lab instruments and interfaces.
- Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to laboratory system functionality, turnaround times, and data quality, implementing quality improvement initiatives as needed
- Provide leadership and guidance in partnership with the Project Management team, identifies risks and concerns and develops corrective action and mitigation plans
- Participate in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned
- Other duties as assigned.
Certification(S)/NYS Licenses:
- Board Certification in Clinical Pathology,
- Anatomic Pathology, or combined Pathology.
- Board Certification or eligibility in Clinical
- Informatics (or equivalent experience).
Educational Level:
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and other Requirements:
- Microsoft and/or Google suite Applications
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Years of Experience:
- Healthcare experience required
- 5+ years training managerial experience preferred
- Managerial experience preferred
Job Tags
Contract work, Work at office, Remote work, Monday to Friday,