Michael Sjaarda
Sioux Falls,SD
Summary
Senior Clinical Informatics Analyst with 16+ years in healthcare and 13+ years in healthcare IT delivering enterprise clinical communication and integration initiatives across Avera Health. Proven leader in multi-hospital technology deployments, vendor partnership, and strategic planning that align IT services with clinical and operational priorities. Experienced in budgeting for enterprise device programs, guiding large-scale system transitions, and mentoring analysts across clinical and technical teams.
Overview
12
12
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr Clinical Informatics Analyst
Avera Health
Sioux Falls, SD
02.2025 - Current
- Leading enterprise transition to a new clinical communication platform supporting 50+ facilities
- Directing integrations across Nurse Call, Physiological Monitoring, and Clinical Device systems.
- Assisting budgeting and lifecycle planning for communication devices.
- Training clinical and non-clinical analysts.
Sr Clinical Application Analyst
Avera Health
Sioux Falls, SD
11.2018 - 02.2025
- Assisted in growth of fully integrated clinical communication platform, from pilot to 10,000 users
- Perform system administration for a corporate suite of 3rd party applications.
- Collaborate with end users to ensure product usage meets clinical needs.
- Served as internal project manager for team as well as an Informal leader to less experienced analysts.
- Continued to promote clinician needs to technical IT service teams with accuracy, serving as a bridge between the two
Sr Clinical Informatics
Avera McKennan Hospital
Sioux Falls, SD
11.2013 - 11.2018
- Led multiple deployments of varied clinical applications in
various healthcare environments. - Promoted caregiver needs to technical IT service teams with
accuracy - Engineered processes to overcome difficult workflows.
- Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.
Education
B.S. - Nursing
South Dakota State University
Brookings, SD12-2009
Skills
- Process Development
- EMR
- Project Management
- SQL
- MS Office
- Mobile Device Management
- HL7
- Change Management
- Service Delivery
Websites
Accomplishments
Rising Leader Graduate - 2/2016
Certification
- Rising Leader Graduate (02/2015 - 02/2016)
- Registered Nurse (12/2009 - Present)
- Epic ClinDoc Certified (2/2025)
Timeline
Sr Clinical Informatics Analyst
Avera Health
02.2025 - Current
Sr Clinical Application Analyst
Avera Health
11.2018 - 02.2025
Sr Clinical Informatics
Avera McKennan Hospital
11.2013 - 11.2018
B.S. - Nursing
South Dakota State University
Professional References
- Andrew Taylor, Director Clinical Informatics - HCA Weatherford
217-791-9193
- Candice Friestad, AVP Informatics - Avera
605-360-8285
- Ray Weiderholt, Director Clinical Informatics - HCA Nashville
712-730-0100