Chief Clinical Informatics Officer

Overview

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 157000 employees 45000 nurses and 25000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and 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.

Responsibilities

The Region Chief Clinical Informatics Officer (rCCIO) oversees the strategic implementation and management of Clinical informatics (CI) across a designated region within CommonSpirit Health. The rCCIO is an innovative leader with thevision, knowledge and skills to leverage informatics that facilitate clinicians to improve care outcomes. This leadership role ensures that informatics solutions enhance patient care and support interdisciplinary collaboration between therapies, nursing, and other clinical teams in their assigned region. This role will lead, orchestrate, and align CommonSpirit Health’s regional efforts with national initiatives as well as market-specific priorities. 

This role will partner closely with the Vice-President/Regional Chief Medical Informatics Officer (rCMIO ) to ensure technology supports the Regional CEO, CMO, CNO, and CIO. These dyad roles optimize patient care while promoting efficient workflows to ensure the achievement of regional clinical support and patient care needs, standardization of clinical practice and by utilizing change management principles. This role will provide the leadership to bridge not only regional governance but also communication of National System standards to the regional/market stakeholders. This role will also be recognized as the domain expert who represents the needs of the region, state, and market for both acute and ambulatory care as it relates to health information technology. This role will directly partner with the System VP/ CNIOs along with the System VP/Regional Chief Medical Information Officers; System CNIO for Implementation; System CI leader, and leader of Change Management and Standardization. The rCCIO will be responsible for optimizing clinical workflows, and driving the adoption of innovative technologies to improve patient care, enhance operational efficiency, and achieve meaningful clinical and financial outcomes.

Qualifications

Education Requirements: 

• Masters degree required in Nursing, Clinical Therapies, Pharmacy or other health related fields. 
  • Doctorate degree preferred *This is not a provider role.*
• An additional degree in Health Informatics, Nursing Informatics or Information systems, Business Administration or Healthcare Management is preferred

License & Certification Requirmtnets: 

• Active RN and or other clinical licensure is required.
  • If an RN- Compact Nursing Licensure in the region of practice is required. If not a nurse, a current clinical license in the area of clinical practice is required.
• Certification in Informatics
  • (e.g., ANCC Board Certification, HIMSS, or AMIA certification Executive Clinical or Health informatic), is required.

Experience Requirements 

• Minimum 10 years in Clinical Healthcare leadership experience
• Minimum of 5 years in clinical informatics or digital health transformation is required.
• Proven track record of successfully leading and implementing large-scale clinical information system projects