Full-Time
Clinical Informatics Director
MD/DO
Gritter Francona
No salary listed
Remote in USA + 1 more
More locations: Washington, DC, USA
Remote
MD
Category
 Medical, Clinical & Veterinary (1) |
|---|
Required Skills
Machine Learning
Electronic Health Records (EHR)
Risk Management
REST APIs
HIPAA
Data Analysis
Requirements
- An MD or DO degree.
- An active and unrestricted medical license in a United States state or territory.
- At least 8 years of demonstrated experience as a Clinical Informatics Director and/or Clinical Informatics Lead within a healthcare system in the government or private sector.
- Proven leadership of enterprise-level electronic health record and clinical technology programs, including implementation, optimization, upgrades, and interoperability.
- Demonstrated success in clinical workflow transformation, content standardization, and quality and safety initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory frameworks, including HIPAA, CMS quality programs, and ONC certification; clinical standards such as terminologies and order sets; and interoperability standards including HL7 v2, C-CDA, and FHIR.
- Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex portfolios, budgets, and timelines.
Responsibilities
- Lead the informatics strategy and roadmap for the contract, aligning clinical, operational, and information technology goals with organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
- Chair or co-chair clinical informatics committees, governance councils, and multidisciplinary working groups.
- Establish and enforce clinical informatics policies, standards, and best practices, including change control and clinical safety and quality oversight.
- Translate clinical requirements into optimized, evidence-based workflows, order sets, clinical decision support, care pathways, and documentation standards.
- Champion safety, usability, and clinician experience by applying human factors and workflow engineering principles.
- Ensure content standardization, including terminologies, value sets, and templates, and reduce unwarranted variation across sites, service lines, and specialties.
- Oversee selection, configuration, and optimization of electronic health records and related systems, including ancillary systems, device integration, imaging, telehealth, patient engagement, and population health systems.
- Guide data quality initiatives, interoperability involving HL7, FHIR, APIs, registries, and health information exchanges, and analytics supporting clinical quality, performance improvement, and reporting.
- Evaluate and govern artificial intelligence and machine learning-enabled clinical tools and decision support for safety, bias mitigation, transparency, and clinical efficacy.
- Ensure clinical informatics deliverables are acceptable, high quality, and standardized to meet clinical, contractual, and regulatory standards, including CMS, The Joint Commission, ONC, and HIPAA requirements.
- Lead clinical risk assessments, health-information-technology-related safety event reviews, and corrective actions.
- Oversee testing, validation, and go-live readiness for clinical functionality and content changes.
- Serve as the clinical liaison among providers, nursing, ancillary departments, information technology, operations, and executive leadership.
- Lead structured change management strategies, including communication plans, stakeholder alignment, and adoption metrics.
- Direct clinician education, competency, and super-user programs; monitor adoption and satisfaction; and remediate barriers.
- Manage the contract's clinical informatics scope, staffing, budget as applicable, milestones, deliverables, and risk management.
- Produce program plans, governance artifacts, status reports, standard operating procedures, and validation evidence, and present them to internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensure timely and compliant delivery across environments.