The setting
makes software and data services for cancer care and research. is its electronic medical record system for smaller practices in the community that treat cancer.
Small order corrections are consuming the same workflow as a changed treatment plan.
Infusion staff need a fast correction path while clinicians need the review trail to stay intact.
Who you’d be doing this for
“I had a patient in the chair while we waited for a simple schedule change to make its way back through the plan.”
Samira Chamoun · Infusion Nurse · a character in this brief
Works in a community oncology practice and depends on accurate, timely regimen orders before treatment delivery.
What is at stake
Infusion nurses are waiting while simple order corrections reopen completed plans. You must weigh a faster correction path against preserving the clinical review trail.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- faster order corrections vs preserved clinical review
- infusion throughput vs clear clinician accountability
- narrow release scope vs complete workflow relief
Why Flatiron Health
OncoEMR sits in the treatment planning and ordering flow that community oncology practices use to keep infusions moving.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Flatiron Health. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Product Manager (Clinical Workflows) (opens in a new tab)
- You will work in our matrix model alongside a team of cross-functional peers to build smart, simple, and safe solutions that form the backbone of cancer care delivery — directly impacting patients at every step of their treatment journey.
- Leading the design, development, and rollout of data-driven products that streamline clinical operations, and reinforce safe, high-quality care delivery.
- Lead Product Manager (Clinical Workflows) (opens in a new tab)
- Flatiron’s HC Product teams are deeply cross-functional given their focus on creating end to end solutions clinicians rely on every day to deliver safe and efficient cancer care —from diagnosis and staging through treatment planning, ordering, and delivery.
- This may involve staffing decisions, budget considerations, and complex scenario planning.
- Clinical Genomics Advanced Practice Provider (opens in a new tab)
- The role is designed for an advanced practice provider (Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant) with deep experience in clinical oncology, genomic testing, test result interpretation, and subsequent patient care and clinical decisions.
- Develop and deliver educational resources (e.g., guides, presentations, webinars) to help practices utilize point of care genomic testing recommendations, orders, and results in support of personalized patient care.
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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