VP, Clinical Affairs – Patient Safety

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the Chief Medical Officer, serving as the primary clinical authority within NextGen Healthcare.

• Lead, mentor, and expand the Clinical Center of Excellence team comprising clinicians and healthcare professionals.

• Incorporate real-world workflow insights and evidence-based medicine throughout the product development process.

• Act as, or provide direct executive oversight to, the enterprise Patient Safety Officer and Chair of the Patient Safety Committee.

• Oversee the Critical Issue Dispositioning program for clinical risk triage, root cause analyses, risk containment, client communications, and remediation efforts.

• Embed evidence-based clinical insights into product roadmap planning, user-centered design, architecture, implementation, and commercialization.

• Assess emerging clinical methodologies, health IT standards, and advanced technologies such as ambient clinical intelligence and AI/ML clinical decision support.

• Create enterprise-wide patient safety standards, protocols, and foster a culture of clinical quality and risk reduction.

• Establish governance protocols, facilitate closed-loop feedback into engineering sprints, and ensure maintenance of audit trails.

• Keep abreast of clinical quality measures, regulatory frameworks including ONC HTI, HIPAA, digital health/SaMD, and patient safety reporting standards.

• Represent NextGen Healthcare before client C-suites, clinical advisory councils, regulatory bodies, and industry associations.

• Collaborate with Legal, Regulatory Affairs, Client Success, and R&D leaders to mitigate operational risks and achieve enterprise objectives.

• Perform additional duties that support the overall goals of the position.

⛳️ Requirements

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited institution.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in active clinical practice and healthcare information technology (HIT) or digital health environments.

• More than 5 years in an executive or senior clinical leadership position within an EHR vendor, healthcare technology company, or large health system/ambulatory network.

• Proven success in building and leading multidisciplinary clinical teams.

• A solid track record of influencing software development life cycles, user experience, and clinical informatics strategy within ambulatory or enterprise EHR systems.

• Direct experience in leading or managing clinical risk governance programs, patient safety initiatives, clinical quality improvement, or cross-functional safety committees.

• Completion of a U.S. accredited residency program.

• Current, unrestricted, and active U.S. medical license in good standing.

• Current or previous Board Certification in a recognized medical specialty (ABMS or AOA).

• In-depth mastery of ambulatory care delivery, clinical workflows, and human-factors engineering.

• Comprehensive understanding of health IT regulatory standards, patient safety principles, and risk mitigation methodologies.

• Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills.

• Proven leadership abilities in coaching, mentoring, and developing licensed medical professionals.

• Ability to address high-stakes, ambiguous safety or quality issues under pressure with transparency, decisiveness, and analytical rigor.

• Capability to drive cross-functional execution and maintain closed-loop accountability across distributed technical and clinical teams.

• Any combination of education and experience that would meet the necessary qualifications for the position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Maintenance of a limited active clinical practice is actively encouraged and supported, provided it does not conflict with executive responsibilities.

• Equal opportunity employer dedicated to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.