Job Summary:
College Medical Center Long Beach is proud to be part of College Hospitals. We are dedicated to the highest quality of customer services delivered with a with a sense of warmth friendliness and organizational pride. Become part of a team that provides a respectful environment, flexibility, a tight knit group and autonomy to utilize your knowledge and experience.
The Clinical Informatics Pharmacist serves as a clinical and technical subject matter expert bridging Pharmacy Operations, Clinical Informatics, and Health Information Technology. This role is responsible for the design, optimization, build, maintenance, and governance of pharmacy-related clinical systems, with a primary focus on the Cerner Millennium EMR, medication safety, and decision support tools.
The position collaborates closely with Pharmacy Leadership, Clinical Informatics Nurses, Providers, Nursing, Revenue Cycle, and IT Application teams to ensure safe, compliant, and efficient medication workflows across all facilities. This role reports to the Applications Manager and functions as part of the Clinical Applications / Informatics team.
Job Description:
- Serve as the primary pharmacy informatics subject matter expert (SME) for the Cerner Millennium EMR and integrated pharmacy systems across all facilities.
- Collaborate closely with the Applications Manager to align pharmacy informatics priorities with enterprise application strategy, governance, and change management processes.
- Lead the build, maintenance, optimization, and support of pharmacy-related Cerner components, including medication orders, order sentences, powerplans, PharmNet workflows, and clinical decision support.
- Manage and validate Multum drug database updates, including:
- Reviewing content changes, formulary impacts, alerts, and drug-drug interaction logic
- Coordinating testing and validation prior to production deployment
- Ensuring updates align with Pharmacy & Therapeutics (P&T) Committee decisions and clinical standards
- Coordinate testing, validation, and implementation of pharmacy system upgrades, patches, and vendor updates in collaboration with IT, Pharmacy leadership, and clinical stakeholders.
- Support medication safety initiatives, including alert optimization, order set standardization, high-risk medication safeguards, and reduction of alert fatigue.
- Act as the pharmacy representative for change control (CAB/TRB) meetings, ensuring pharmacy impacts are identified, documented, tested, and communicated.
- Partner with Clinical Informatics, Nursing Informatics, and Providers to ensure end-to-end medication workflows are safe, efficient, and clinically appropriate.
- Provide tier-2/3 escalation support for pharmacy-related incidents and service requests, assisting Application Analysts with complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis.
- Participate in incident reviews and problem management, contributing to root cause analyses (RCAs) for medication-related system issues or adverse events.
- Develop and maintain pharmacy informatics documentation, including build standards, workflow diagrams, downtime procedures, and validation checklists.
- Support regulatory, accreditation, and audit requirements related to medication management (e.g., Joint Commission, CMS, state pharmacy regulations)
QUALIFICATIONS
- Active Pharmacist license in the state(s) of operation (or ability to obtain).
- Minimum 3–5 years of clinical pharmacy experience in an acute care or hospital setting.
- Demonstrated experience working with EMR systems, preferably Cerner Millennium.
- Strong understanding of medication workflows, clinical decision support, and medication safety principles.
Pay: Exempt $147,680-$184,600 annually ($71.00 – $88.75 per hour)
Placement in the pay range is based on multiple factors including, but not limited to, relevant years of experience and qualifications. In addition to base pay, there may be additional compensation available for College Medical Center roles, including but not limited to shift differential and other special pay practices, etc. The posted compensation for the position is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay that College Medical Centerl in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting.
Job Type: Full-time
