Region Chief Medical Informatics Officer

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2300 clinics care sites and 137 hospital-based locations in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.

CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses, and 25000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states. It contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits, and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.

The Region Vice President, Chief Medical Informatics Officer, will lead a CommonSpirit Health region with clinically facing health information technologies. This role will work closely with and support the Regional CEO, CMO, CNO, and CIO to ensure regional governance, standardization, change management, and Epic Gold Implementation. This role will provide the leadership to bridge regional governance and communication between national functions and the regional stakeholders. This role will also be recognized as the domain expert who represents the needs of the region, state, and market for acute and ambulatory care related to health information technology.

This role will directly partner with the Regional Clinical Informatics Director, along with the Chief Medical Information Officers of other regions, Gold Application, Change Management and Standardization, and the Physician Enterprise. It will lead, orchestrate, and align CommonSpirit Health’s regional efforts with national initiatives and market-specific priorities.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities 

• Provider Efficiency and Productivity: Utilize a data-driven approach, including Artificial Intelligence, to optimize and even automate the provider workload of chart review, documentation, order entry, and in-basket tasks
• Provider Utilization of Technology: Provide executive oversight to ensure adequate training (content, method, and competency), customization as defined by Epic Gold, and facilitating smooth transitions during electronic health record modifications and upgrades.
• Care Experience and Clinical Outcomes: Leverage real-time analytics and self-service reporting to enhance patient and provider engagement, resulting in less harm and improved health of the populations we serve.
• Advocate for Regional Providers: Maintains healthy relationships with physicians, advanced practice providers (APPs), and allied health professionals to represent their technological requests, gain support and consensus on technology initiatives, and provide feedback on provider-related issues.
• Coordination of Care Across the Continuum: Lead a provider-focused approach to continuous process improvement to improve patient access, throughput, and network integrity.
• Enhance the Electronic Health Record Provider Experience: Prioritize, socialize, and communicate external national benchmarked data measuring the user experience to create a strategy and plan that guides CommonSpirit Health's electronic health record Strategy.
• Decrease the Barriers to Care: Champion the use of the patient portal, telehealth services, and standardized workflows that place the patient at the center of each care experience.
• Transform to a Single Electronic Health Record Instance: Exemplify change management expertise and guidance as CommonSpirit Health evolves from its current state to One CommonSpirit with technology platforms that are standardized and rationalized third-party applications.
• Steward and Support Strategic Growth Initiatives: Partner with operations, clinical, and finance leadership to enable provider-focused health information technology to support enterprise, regional, and market strategic priorities.
•  Operational Oversight: Provide direct leadership and management of Provider Informatics Specialists (<15).

Required Education and Experience:  

• MD, DO, and at least 7 years of Health IT leadership experience and 10 years of clinical practice

Required Licensure and Certifications:  

• Board Certification in clinical specialty or informatics

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Training

• Management Principles, Practices, and Techniques
• Information Technology Principles, Practices, and Techniques
• Applicable CommonSpirit Health Policies, Procedures, and Information Technology Systems
•  Applicable Federal, State, and Local Laws, Codes, and Regulations
• Applicable Theories and Principles related to the Area of Assignment
• Skill in Managing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Staff
• Skill in Planning Tactical and Operational Activities
• Problem Solving and Process Analysis Skills
• Written and Oral Communication and Interpersonal Skills as Applied to Interaction with Coworkers, Supervisor, the Public, etc. Sufficient to Exchange or Convey Information and to Receive Work Direction

Benefits include Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Holidays, Retirement Program, Disability Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Adoption Assistance, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Discount Programs, Life Insurance Plans, Worker Compensation, Dress for Your Day Policy, and Voluntary Benefits. The position is eligible for incentive pay based on company performance. 

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