VP, Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (Associate CMIO)

Community Health Systems is one of the nation’s leading healthcare providers. Developing and operating healthcare delivery systems in 40 distinct markets across 15 states, CHS is committed to helping people get well and live healthier. CHS operates 71 acute-care hospitals and more than 1,000 other sites of care, including physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupational medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

Summary:

The Associate Chief Medical Information Officer (Associate CMIO) is responsible for leading the implementation, optimization and innovation of health information technology at Community Health Systems. The Associate CMIO will report directly to the Chief Medical Information Officer and assumes responsibility for clinical system design, implementation, and optimization. The Associate CMIO should be a contemporary clinician and lead development as well as change management of clinical content, decision support and workflows within the EMRs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leads design of clinical pathways, evidence based clinical content, and effective clinical decision support within the EMRs to improve clinical and business outcomes.
•  Leads and organizes change management of EHR design and content which balances standardization as well as enables innovation across all the entities. Leads and facilitates clinical advisory groups in the design of clinical systems to support excellence in patient care and research.
•  Streamlines the deployment and adoption of new health information technology at CHS facilities.
•  Assists the CMIO in the areas of planning, development, preparation and implementation of strategic and tactical clinical information systems. This may include but not limited to: core clinical systems, provider order entry, clinical training, and documentation.
•  Collaborates closely with other clinical/operation leaders at CHS including but not limited to Quality nursing, pharmacy, lab, radiology, revenue cycle, registration, etc and develops transferrable models of care.
•  Demonstrates data driven improvement of clinical and business outcomes by spearheading optimization and innovation. Assist data science team with development of analytics to effectively measure the impact.
•  Works closely with the regulatory team and ensure that the EMR design and end user adoption achieve successful regulatory compliance

Skills:

• Transformational leader with ability to positively influence and coach various stakeholders to lead effectively.
•  Abstract thinker who can provide a clear long term vision and strategy that achieve concrete and incremental value and execute reliably
•  Contemporary physician who is up to date with latest health care trends, clinical evidence and informatics best practices
•  Is a systems thinker with strong organizational skills who can pull all the pieces together and deliver on time and within budget.
•  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 of clinical work flow in both inpatient and outpatient settings, use of clinical information systems and outcomes measurement.
• Experience leading a large clinical program, service line, or medical facility.

Qualifications:

• Required Education: MD or DO from accredited Medical school
• Preferred Education: Formal education and training in Clinical Informatics

• Required Experience: 5-10 years of clinical informatics experience and at least 3 years of direct clinical care
• Preferred Experience: Experience leading clinical practice
• Required License/Registration/Certification: Board certification in any clinical specialty, Valid US Medical License
• Preferred License/Registration/Certification: Clinical Informatics board certification

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.