Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO
Gritter Francona
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: District of Columbia • Florida • United States
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About the role
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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)
- Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
- Short Term & Long Term Disability
- Training & Development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
clinical informaticsEHR implementationworkflow transformationdata quality initiativesinteroperabilityclinical decision supportchange controlclinical risk assessmentsAI/ML-enabled clinical toolshealth IT governance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationnegotiationpresentationstakeholder alignmentteam managementinfluencechange managementeducation and trainingproblem-solving
Certifications
MDDOactive medical license