Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

About the role

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is responsible for shaping the digital and medical information transformation at EVMS, supporting the institution's mission of teaching, research, and clinical service. The CMIO leads digital strategy initiatives, including Epic Community Connect, artificial intelligence, and clinical deployments. They also focus on enhancing care quality, efficiency, and appropriateness.

Responsibilities

• Executes and implements digital and medical informatics initiatives and programs.
• Serves as a thought leader on digital and medical informatics, advocating for system-wide value enhancements.
• Fosters innovation in improving care quality, efficiency, and appropriateness.
• Collaborates with physicians, providers, and staff to enhance clinical workflows, medical documentation, and patient experience.
• Supports decision-making on medical information matters related to clinical service.
• Communicates and educates on digital and medical informatics, developing partnerships with providers.
• Optimizes the CMIO structure to support clinicians, focusing on workflow and technology needs.
• Engages in Epic usability, clinician engagement, and provider skills optimization.
• Partners with training and communications teams to optimize Epic support updates and training content.
• Collaborates with Epic application teams to contribute to specifications ensuring training content is clinically and operationally relevant.
• Informs and drives future technology architecture and digital strategy, including ambient documentation and artificial intelligence in clinical practice.
• Serves as a member of Health System Operations Governance, providing clinical input and guiding decision-making.
• Leverages informatics and clinical knowledge to support enterprise services like ambulatory and inpatient care.
• Develops a change management process for distributed build and ensures alignment with application teams.
• Tracks performance and impact of changes from the distributed build programs.
• Collaborates with the medical group IT leadership on Non-Epic Clinical Systems.
• Develops clinically informed data products, usage, stewardship, and governance.
• Serves as a clinical liaison for programmatic developments in Data and Analytics.
• Partners with researchers to implement technology solutions that facilitate translational research, clinical trials, and data-driven discoveries.
• Partners with the medical group to implement solution engineering, tech, data & analytics, research, and IT/security teams to implement and monitor data security measures.
• Participates in incident management, especially those involving clinical systems impacting care delivery and patient safety.
• Facilitates clear communication to the clinical community during major incidents.
• Represents EVMS at national meetings and through peer-reviewed publications, sharing lessons learned and advancing the field of clinical informatics.

Requirements

• A physician with board eligibility/certification in Clinical Informatics and Epic builder certification.
• Current/eligible for a Virginia medical license and eligible for a clinical appointment at EVMS.
• 5+ years of information systems experience, with significant experience in a large and complex medical group, academic medical center, medical school, teaching hospital, or integrated health care delivery system.
• Proven history of successful information technology implementation and service delivery in complex healthcare organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate with clinical and operational leadership to optimize and improve the EHR and solve critical business/clinical challenges.
• Knowledge of software engineering and the development life cycle.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited medical school; Doctorate degree in Medicine preferred.
• Certification/Licensure Required:
  • Board certification.
  • Unrestricted active medical license in Virginia.
  • Eligible for credentialing by payors in the Hampton Roads US-VA-Norfolk.