Medical Dir. Medical Informatics

Minimum Job Requirements:

Work Experience:

Seven years of post-residency clinical practice experience with knowledge of healthcare workflows required. Experience with EHRs and clinical information systems, demonstrated physician leadership, and experience leading or participating in EHR optimization, clinical technology initiatives, workflow redesign, quality improvement, patient safety, and clinical governance activities.

License/Registration/Certification:

Current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Texas required.

Current board certification in the physician’s primary medical specialty through an appropriate, recognized certifying board required.

Current medical staff appointment and clinical privileges, or eligibility to obtain them required.

Board certification in Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine or another applicable, recognized certifying board is preferred.

Education and Training:

Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.

            Skills:

1. Strong knowledge of physician workflows, clinical practice, hospital operations, and medical staff governance.
2. Working knowledge of EHR systems, clinical decision support, health information exchange, interoperability, clinical analytics, and healthcare information technology.
3. Ability to translate complex clinical requirements into language understandable to technical teams and technical capabilities or limitations into language understandable to clinicians.
4. Strong physician-to-physician communication, facilitation, and influence skills.
5. Ability to build consensus among physicians, nursing, IT, operations, and executive leadership.
6. Understanding of healthcare regulatory requirements affecting clinical systems, including HIPAA, CMS requirements, quality reporting, patient safety, privacy, and information security.
7. Strong analytical, problem-solving, conflict-resolution, and change-management skills.
8. Ability to evaluate technology from the perspective of clinical value, workflow, patient safety, usability, risk, cost, and organizational readiness.
9. Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a matrixed healthcare environment.
10. Knowledge of project management, change management, workflow redesign, and process-improvement methodologies.