Clinical Informatics III

About the role

The Clinical Informatics III serves as a senior-level clinical informatics leader responsible for providing strategic oversight, expert guidance, and governance across clinical and business informatics initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level leadership and oversight for clinical and business informatics initiatives supporting enterprise healthcare operations
• Assess the information and knowledge management needs of healthcare professionals, administrators, and patients to improve clinical and operational outcomes
• Analyze, evaluate, and optimize clinical and business workflows to improve quality, efficiency, interoperability, and regulatory compliance
• Lead the design, evaluation, implementation, governance, and continuous improvement of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) capabilities
• Provide strategic oversight for Electronic Health Record (EHR) optimization, configuration, implementation, upgrades, and sustainment activities
• Guide the procurement, customization, development, implementation, management, evaluation, and continuous improvement of clinical information systems and associated technologies
• Serve as a senior clinical informatics advisor to program leadership, technical teams, clinical stakeholders, and executive leadership
• Ensure informatics activities align with organizational goals, clinical best practices, patient safety standards, and federal healthcare regulations
• Evaluate the effectiveness of clinical information systems through performance metrics, workflow analysis, user feedback, and quality improvement initiatives
• Lead multidisciplinary teams during system modernization efforts, optimization initiatives, production support, and surge operations
• Identify and mitigate clinical and operational risks associated with health information technology implementations and system changes
• Develop recommendations that enhance clinical workflows, provider efficiency, patient outcomes, and organizational performance
• Support governance activities by developing standards, policies, procedures, and best practices for clinical informatics operations
• Mentor and provide technical and strategic guidance to junior informatics personnel and interdisciplinary project teams

Requirements

• Master's degree in Clinical Informatics, Health Informatics, Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related healthcare or technical discipline
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in clinical informatics, healthcare information technology, EHR implementation, or related healthcare operations
• Demonstrated experience leading enterprise clinical informatics initiatives within complex healthcare environments
• Extensive knowledge of Electronic Health Records (EHRs), clinical workflows, Clinical Decision Support (CDS), healthcare interoperability, and healthcare data management

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), Department of Defense (DoD), or other large federal healthcare organizations
• Experience supporting enterprise EHR modernization, sustainment, or optimization programs
• Clinical informatics certification or applicable clinical licensure is preferred but not required
• Experience with healthcare interoperability standards, clinical terminology standards, and data governance