Lead Clinical Informatics Systems Adoption Specialist - Oracle Health Surgery and Anesthesia

Job Summary

The Clinical Informatics Systems Adoption Specialist, Lead Supports and leads Surgery and Anesthesia informatics activities related to Oracle Health Cerner conversions, upgrades, implementations, and workflow changes across multiple facilities. Serves as a subject matter expert for perioperative and anesthesia workflows, including pre-operative assessment, surgical scheduling, perioperative documentation, anesthesia documentation, clinical decision support, perioperative tracking, and post-anesthesia recovery processes. 

Coordinates training, readiness, workflow validation, go-live support, and post-live stabilization activities to ensure clinical teams can safely and consistently adopt new or changed Surgery and Anesthesia workflows. Partners with surgical services, anesthesia providers, nursing leadership, operational leaders, implementation teams, and application teams to assess workflow impacts, prepare end users, reinforce standard processes, and resolve adoption barriers. Translates system changes, upgrade impacts, and implementation requirements into practical education, competency validation, and optimization recommendations that improve clinician efficiency, patient safety, regulatory compliance, and workflow standardization.

> 50% Travel

Essential Functions

• Patient & Customer Impact
  • Provides advanced go-live, hypercare, stabilization, and end-user support for Surgery and Anesthesia implementations, upgrades, conversions, and optimization initiatives.
  • Serves as a trusted educator and resource supporting adoption of safe, effective, and efficient perioperative and anesthesia workflows.
  • Plans and executes comprehensive onboarding programs for Surgery and Anesthesia clinicians using standardized workflows and competency-validation methodologies.
  • Designs and facilitates realistic workflow-practice scenarios and competency validation activities for high-risk surgical and anesthesia processes, including preoperative, intraoperative, post-anesthesia, recovery, and procedural documentation workflows.
  • Develops and delivers workflow-validation scenarios supporting perioperative, intraoperative, anesthesia, and recovery workflows.
  • Coordinates onboarding activities and completion of assigned learning pathways for perioperative staff, anesthesia providers, and surgical leadership. 
• Execution & Accountability
  • Independently manages assigned training, onboarding, readiness, and adoption activities with limited supervision.
  • Creates and maintains lesson plans, facilitator guides, learner resources, job aids, workflow diagrams, and scenario-based learning materials supporting complex specialty workflows.
  • Develops and maintains Surgery and Anesthesia curricula, simulation scenarios, competency assessments, workflow guides, and educational resources.
  • Develops competency models and readiness-assessment tools supporting perioperative and anesthesia workflows.
  • Documents workflow requirements and associated training impacts related to system conversions, upgrades, enhancements, optimizations, and clinical process changes.
  • Translates approved system changes, upgrades, enhancements, and workflow decisions into actionable training and readiness requirements.
  • Maintains training materials, workflow documentation, and educational resources using established content-management, governance, and version-control practices. 
• Collaboration & Partnership
  • Partners with clinical leaders, operational stakeholders, physician and nursing informatics teams, application teams, educators, and project teams to support workflow adoption and organizational readiness.
  • Collaborates with application teams and operational leaders to improve workflow efficiency, clinician satisfaction, system usability, and adoption outcomes.
  • Coordinates educational communications, super-user engagement activities, and readiness initiatives supporting perioperative programs and enterprise implementations.
  • Represents Surgery and Anesthesia training, readiness, adoption, and workflow requirements in governance, project, optimization, and implementation discussions.
  • Partners with implementation and application teams to identify workflow variation and support clinical standardization efforts across facilities.
  • Shares expertise and provides consultation to adoption specialists through coaching, knowledge sharing, simulation design support, workflow education, and issue-escalation guidance. 
• Improvement & Innovation
  • Analyzes perioperative and anesthesia workflows to identify adoption barriers, inefficiencies, workflow variation, and opportunities for optimization.
  • Continuously refines educational content and learning strategies based on user feedback, workflow changes, adoption outcomes, and optimization opportunities.
  • Evaluates workflow utilization, training effectiveness, competency outcomes, and adoption metrics to identify opportunities for improvement.
  • Supports workflow optimization initiatives through targeted education, readiness strategies, workflow reinforcement, and change-support activities.
  • Recommends improvements that enhance workflow efficiency, clinician adoption, patient safety, documentation quality, and operational performance.
  • Supports sustained adoption through focused reinforcement activities and targeted educational interventions. 
• Stewardship, Quality & Integrity
  • Ensures educational content aligns with clinical-practice standards, organizational policies, regulatory requirements, and enterprise workflow standards.
  • Leads workflow-validation activities, dress rehearsals, and end-user readiness assessments supporting safe transition to production environments.
  • Maintains compliance with organizational training standards, documentation requirements, governance expectations, and approved workflow standards.
  • Evaluates perioperative and anesthesia documentation quality, workflow compliance, and adoption effectiveness to support safe and compliant practice.
  • Identifies, documents, and communicates readiness, workflow, adoption, and training risks through established governance and escalation channels.
  • Provides structured support for issue identification, escalation coordination, and targeted re-education activities during stabilization efforts. 
• Expertise & Leadership Influence
  • Serves as an advanced adoption and training subject matter expert for Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and Anesthesia applications and associated clinical workflows.
  • Provides consultation and guidance regarding perioperative workflow adoption, readiness planning, training strategy, competency development, and workflow optimization.
  • Influences clinical adoption, workflow standardization, and practice transformation through expertise, collaboration, education, and relationship building rather than positional authority.
  • Serves as a trusted advisor to operational leaders, informatics partners, educators, and stakeholders regarding Surgery and Anesthesia workflow enablement strategies.
  • Contributes to the development and advancement of enterprise training standards, adoption methodologies, simulation practices, readiness frameworks, and clinical-enablement strategies.
  • Supports professional growth of adoption specialists through mentorship, specialty workflow expertise, facilitation guidance, and knowledge sharing. 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in in Allied Health, Healthcare Informatics, Information Technology, or related fields required (A combination of relevant education, certifications, and physician-workflow training or clinical informatics experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)
  • 7 years of training clinicians, clinical informatics education, or system adoption, including substantial experience with Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and/or Anesthesia workflows; OR 5 years training clinicians with demonstrated expertise in Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and Anesthesia workflows with a Bachelor's/Master's. 
• Preferred Experience:
  • Oracle Health Cerner Surgery certification
  • Oracle Health Cerner Anesthesia certification
  • Perioperative, surgical services, anesthesia, PACU, or procedural services experience
  • Clinical workflow optimization and implementation experience
  • Multi-facility training and adoption experience 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Expert knowledge of perioperative and anesthesia clinical workflows and the training implications of complex, high-risk clinical processes.
• Advanced proficiency with Oracle Health Cerner Surgery and Anesthesia functionality, role-based workflows, and adoption considerations.
• Ability to work effectively in a team with guidance from senior leaders.
• Strong customer service orientation and clear communication skills.
• Expert-level instructional design, adult learning, simulation, facilitation, and competency-validation skills.
• Strong facilitation and coaching skills across diverse learner groups.
• Deep understanding of clinical workflows, safety, and policy impacts.
• Ability to design valid assessments and interpret competency data.
• Advanced change-management, stakeholder-engagement, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Advanced proficiency with learning-management, reporting, content-development, virtual-learning, and Microsoft 365 tools.
• Ability to lead complex initiatives, manage interdependencies, and communicate recommendations to clinical, operational, and technology leaders. 

Licenses and Certifications

• Active clinical licensure (e.g., RN, RT, PharmD, or similar) preferred

> 50% Travel