Gritter Francona · 3 hours ago
Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/Executive
8+ years expGritter Francona is looking for a Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO to help support a potential project to assist the VA health program. The role involves leading informatics strategy, overseeing clinical workflows, and ensuring quality and compliance in clinical informatics deliverables.
Health CareInformation ServicesInformation Technology
Responsibilities
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
Qualification
Required
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
Company
Gritter Francona
Gritter Francona specializes in health care, human resource management and IT solutions to government.
51-200 employees
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