Director, Clinical Informatics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +9 more states.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement the clinical informatics strategy for the organization.

• Act as the main liaison between clinical operations and Information Technology for clinical information systems.

• Advocate for clinical users in system design and technology-related decisions.

• Create governance processes for requests, enhancements, standardization, and prioritization of clinical systems.

• Lead committees, workgroups, and governance structures related to clinical informatics.

• Provide clinical leadership for electronic medical record (EMR) implementations, conversions, upgrades, optimization initiatives, and the deployment of new technologies.

• Oversee the assessment and redesign of clinical workflows.

• Collaborate with clinical leaders and IT teams to design, validate, test, implement, and enhance clinical workflows.

• Minimize unnecessary documentation, clicks, alerts, workflow variations, and documentation burdens.

• Standardize order sets, documentation templates, clinical pathways, alerts, and clinical decision-support tools.

• Assess current-state workflows and establish standardized future-state clinical processes.

• Enhance clinical efficiency, patient throughput, care coordination, and patient outcomes.

• Drive post-implementation optimization and workflow improvement initiatives.

• Collaborate with analytics and operational leaders to provide meaningful, reliable, and actionable clinical data.

• Support dashboards and clinical performance monitoring tools.

• Ensure the clinical integrity of reports and dashboards.

• Identify opportunities for predictive analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies.

• Cultivate relationships with physicians, advanced practice providers, nursing leaders, and frontline clinicians.

• Gather clinician feedback on clinical systems and workflows.

• Encourage clinician acceptance through engagement, communication, education, and change management.

• Act as an escalation point for major clinical workflow and usability issues.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Informatics, Health Information Technology, or a related clinical field is required.

• A Master's degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Informatics, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred.

• A strong understanding of the healthcare industry.

• Solid accounting knowledge and experience.

• Effective communication skills.

• Proficient in Excel, including pivot tables and VLOOKUP functions.

• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

• Candidates must reside in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Tennessee, Texas, or Wyoming.

🏝️ Benefits

• This is a remote position.

• Travel requirements are 50–75% during the EMR build phase, reducing to 25% thereafter.