Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO

Strategic Leadership & Governance

Lead the informatics strategy and roadmap for the contract, aligning clinical, operational, and IT goals to 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/quality oversight.

Clinical & Workflow Excellence

Translate clinical requirements into optimized, evidence-based workflows, order sets, clinical decision support (CDS), care pathways, and documentation standards.
Champion safety, usability, and clinician experience by applying human factors and workflow engineering principles.
Ensure content standardization (terminologies, value sets, templates) and reduce unwarranted variation across sites, service lines, and specialties.

Technology & Data

Oversee selection, configuration, and optimization of EHRs and related systems (e.g., ancillary, device integration, imaging, telehealth, patient engagement, population health)
Guide data quality initiatives, interoperability (HL7, FHIR, APIs, registries, HIE), and analytics to support clinical quality, performance improvement, and reporting.
Evaluate and govern the use of AI/ML-enabled clinical tools and decision support for safety, bias mitigation, transparency, and clinical efficacy.

Quality, Safety, and Compliance

Ensure clinical informatics deliverables are acceptable, high quality, and standardized to meet clinical, contractual, and regulatory standards (e.g., CMS, The Joint Commission, ONC, HIPAA)
Lead clinical risk assessments, safety event reviews related to health IT, and corrective actions
Oversee testing, validation, and go-live readiness for clinical functionality and content changes

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

Serve as the clinical liaison among providers, nursing, ancillary departments, IT, 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

Contract Leadership & Delivery

Manage the contract's clinical informatics scope, staffing, budget (as applicable), milestones, deliverables, and risk management
Produce high-quality documentation (program plans, governance artifacts, status reports, SOPs, validation evidence) and present to internal/external stakeholders
Ensure timely, compliant delivery across environments

Requirements

• MD or DO, active and unrestricted medical license in a U.S. state or territory
• 8+ years demonstrated experience as a Clinical Informatics Director and/or Clinical Informatics Lead within a healthcare system (government or private sector)
• Proven leadership of enterprise-level EHR and clinical technology programs (implementation, optimization, upgrades, interoperability)
• Demonstrated success in clinical workflow transformation, content standardization, and quality/safety initiatives
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, CMS quality programs, ONC certification), clinical standards (e.g., terminologies, order sets), and interoperability (HL7 v2, C-CDA, FHIR)
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills; able to influence across clinical and technical teams and executive leadership
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex portfolios, budgets, and timelines

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retailment Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development