Region VP Chief Medical Informatics Officer - California - CommonSpirit Health

CommonSpirit Health was formed by the alignment of Catholic Health Initiatives (CHI) and Dignity Health. With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.

The Region Vice President Chief Medical Informatics Officer will lead a CommonSpirit Health’s region with clinically facing health information technologies. This role will work closely with and support the Regional CEO, CMO, CNO, and CIO to ensure regional governance, standardization, change management, and Epic Gold Implementation. This role will provide the leadership to bridge not only regional governance but also communication between national functions and the regional 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 Regional Clinical Informatics Director along with the Chief Medical Information Officers of other regions, Gold Application, Change Management and Standardization, and the Physician Enterprise. This role will lead, orchestrate, and align CommonSpirit Health’s regional efforts with national initiatives as well as market-specific priorities.

Essential Key Job Responsibilities :

Provider Efficiency and Productivity: Utilize a data driven approach, including Artificial Intelligence, to optimize and even automate the provider workload of chart review, documentation, order entry, and in-basket tasks.

Provider Utilization of Technology: Provide executive oversight to ensure adequate training (content, method,and competency), customization as defined by Epic Gold, and the facilitation of smooth transitions during electronic health record modifications and upgrades.

Care Experience and Clinical Outcomes: Leverage real time analytics and self service reporting to create enhanced patient and provider engagement resulting in less harm and improved health of the populations we serve.

Advocate for Regional Providers: Maintains healthy relationships with Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers (APPs), and allied health professionals to represent their technological requests, gain support and consensus of technology initiatives, and provide feedback to provider related issues.

Coordination of Care Across the Continuum: Lead a provider focused approach, through continuous process improvement, to improve patient access, throughput, and network integrity.

Enhance the Electronic Health Record Provider Experience: Prioritize, socialize, and communicate external national benchmarked data measuring the user experience to create a strategy and plan that guides CommonSpirit Health electronic health record Strategy.

Decrease the Barriers to Care: Champion the use of the patient portal, telehealth services, and standardized workflows that place the patient at the center of each care experience.

Transform to a Single Electronic Health Record Instance: Exemplify change management expertise and guidance as CommonSpirit Health evolves from its current state to One Commonspirit with technology platforms that are standardized and rationalized third party applications.

Steward and Support Strategic Growth Initiatives: Partner with operations, clinical, and finance leadership to enable provider focused health information technology in support of enterprise, regional, and market strategic priorities.

Operational Oversight: Provide direct leadership and management of Provider Informatics Specialists (<15).

Required Education and Experience : 

MD, DO, and at least 7 years of Health IT leadership experience and 10 years of clinical practice

Required Licensure and Certifications :

Board Certification in clinical specialty or informatics

Required Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Training : 

• Management Principles, Practices and Techniques
• Information Technology Principles, Practices and Techniques
• Applicable CommonSpirit Health Policies, Procedures, and Information Technology Systems
• Applicable Federal, State, and Local Laws, Codes, and Regulations
• Applicable Theories and Principles related to Area of Assignment
• Skill in Managing, Monitoring, and Evaluating Staff 
• Skill in Planning Tactical and Operational Activities
• Problem Solving and Process Analysis Skills
• Written and Oral Communication and Interpersonal Skills as Applied to Interaction with Coworkers, Supervisor, the Public, etc. Sufficient to Exchange or Convey Information and to Receive Work Direction