Summary:
The Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer provides effective leadership and strategic direction in the areas of planning, development and implementation of clinical information systems for the CHS portfolio of services. The VP, CMIO will report directly to the Chief Digital and Information Officer and will be responsible for day-to-day operations, decision making, and staff management within the Office of Clinical Informatics. The CMIO leads a highly functional multi-disciplinary clinical and technical team that assumes the responsibility for clinical system design, implementation, support and optimization to achieve clinical and business outcomes.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:
- Provides clinical and IT leadership in the areas of planning, development, implementation and support of strategic and tactical clinical information systems.
- Evaluates the impact of information technology on clinical processes and uses data to identify areas to promote use of technology in creating efficiencies for clinicians and improving quality of care.
- Develops empathy and understanding of health system’s needs and builds relationships with other leaders and works collaboratively to conceive and execute clinical informatics agenda at a large scale. Leads design of clinical pathway models with clinical leadership and assists in modification of these models to gain maximum efficacy and adoption of evidence based best practices in patient care.
- Reviews clinical informatics trends, experiences and approaches, and provides thought leadership in the evolution of informatics practices at CHS.
Leads and facilitates enterprise change management of clinical content, workflows and decision support that achieves standardization as well as enables innovation.
- Is highly responsive to users’ needs, including training, to ensure widespread acceptance and optimal use of the clinical systems.
- Serves as a significant stakeholder in enterprise wide data governance and assists the clinical data warehousing team to enrich the cloud data ecosystem.
- Understands and contributes to the AI strategy and governance and collaborates with data science team for successful execution.
- Collaborates with VP of Applications management and EHR operations team and assists in app rationalization and vendor management.
- Collaborate with the CHS CISO to ensure the implementation and enforcement of relevant cybersecurity policy, and with the CIO in the implementation and operationalization of industry standards such as ITIL and like framework.
- Represents CHS to the public and to other healthcare organizations to promote innovation and utilization of information technology in care delivery.
Qualifications:
Education:
- Doctor of Medicine degree (M.D. or D.O.) required
- Board-Certified including any clinical specialty preferred
- Master’s degree in informatics or technology preferred
Experience:
- 10 years’ experience in Clinical Informatics and 3-5 years of direct health informatics deployment and optimization experience at a leadership level required
- Some physician practice experience preferred
Certificates and Licenses:
- Valid U.S. Medical License
- Certification from organization such as American Medical Informatics Associate or board certification following a clinical informatics fellowship preferred.
Skills:
- Is a strong leader with a mature sense of priorities and solid practical experience who can design and implement systems within the framework of technical boundaries.
- Is politically savvy, has a high tolerance for ambiguity and can work successfully in a matrix management model.
- Is a systems thinker with strong organizational skills who can pull all the pieces together and deliver on time and within budget.
- Demonstrates a high level of clinical knowledge, analytical ability, critical decision making skills and an extensive knowledge of healthcare issues, with a focus on the science of integrating healthcare, technology, and clinical data, formally known as clinical or health informatics.
- Possesses excellent interpersonal skills and can work effectively with a diversity of personalities. Must be approachable, show respect for others and be able to present data with effective communication and presentation skills. Must be an effective consensus builder.
- Possesses good grasp clinical work flow in both inpatient and outpatient settings, interest in clinical information systems and outcomes measurement.
- Must have the ability to develop flexible, transferable models for pathways of care.
- Is a strong manager who is adaptable and has strong collaborative management style, a creative thinker with high energy and enthusiasm, and a team player who promotes the concepts of people working together versus individual performance.
- Must have outstanding clinical, technical, and leadership skills and will actively collaborate with clinical and support service lines to facilitate and manage the integration of an on-line multimodal patient care record.
- Must be able to perform effectively in a complex multi-facility network.
- Is a contemporary clinician who understands major trends in healthcare and managed care, and is familiar with point of care products and medical informatics trends and tools.
- Experience leading a large clinical program, service line, or medical facility.
- Knowledgeable in the areas of management and systems improvement concepts.
- Skilled in implementing organizational strategies to improve healthcare delivery.
- Demonstrated successful performance in a matrix organizational environment.
- Extensive experience with performance measures and driving clinical excellence via metrics.
Physical Demands:
In order to successfully perform this job, with or without a reasonable accommodation, the following are outlined below:
- The Employee is required to read, review, prepare and analyze written data and figures, using a PC or similar, and should possess visual acuity.
- The Employee may be required to occasionally climb, push, stand, walk, reach, grasp, kneel, stoop, and/or perform repetitive motions.
- The Employee is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions and; therefore, job functions are typically performed under conditions such as those found within general office or administrative work.
- Travel requirements – approximately 25% will be expected for major conversion projects
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