Summary
Keck Medicine of USC is seeking a forward-thinking physician leader to serve as its Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer (ACMIO). This hybrid role offers a unique opportunity to help shape the organization’s informatics strategy and enhance clinical systems across a leading academic health system.
Reporting to the CMIO and maintaining a dotted line to a Keck School of Medicine clinical chair, the ACMIO will provide strategic and operational leadership to support clinical informatics initiatives across Keck Medicine of USC facilities. This hybrid role blends the power of health IT with the nuances of care delivery to ensure systems meet the evolving needs of patients, providers, and clinical teams.
Education
- MD or DO degree
Minimum Experience/Knowledge
- Minimum of 4 Years of experience as a physician leader with progressive leadership responsibilities.
- Active medical practice within 12 months preferred.
- Experience in medical informatics, clinical systems implementation, process re-design and change management associated with the introduction of IT to clinical culture.
- Familiarity with health IT products, medical informatics trends, and tools.
- Practical experience in design, implementation, and optimization of health information technology systems.
- Experience in quality, performance improvement, and outcomes management.
- Experience in leading organizational change, preferably including the implementation or optimization of an electronic medical record system across a multi-facility organization.
- Possesses outstanding interpersonal skills and is able to communicate and engage effectively with attending physicians, fellows, residents, nurses, pharmacists, clerks, administrators, IT personnel, and other clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Listens well and facilitates informed decision making through verbal and written communication.
- Possesses analytical understanding of clinical workflow and is knowledgeable about the application of Clinical Decision Support in support of efficient, high-quality, repetitive, and reliable delivery of care.
- Able to articulate and demonstrate the benefits and limitations of technical solutions in various clinical and non-clinical settings.
- Cerner / Oracle Health experience preferred.
Licenses/Certifications
- Licensed to practice medicine in CA, or a license must be obtained within 180 days of hire.
- Board certified in an ACGME-recognized specialty.
- Board certified in Clinical Informatics, or a related degree (as MBA / MPH / MHA / MMM / Informatics) preferred.
Accountabilities
- The ACMIO will primarily report to the CMIO and maintain a dotted line to a Keck School of Medicine clinical chair.
- The ACMIO will work at least 4 days (32 hours) a week (Mon–Fri) in information services activities and may engage the remaining 1 day (8 hours) a week in clinical duties or other Keck School of Medicine activities.
- This is a hybrid position that will include in-person and possibly remote days options as assigned by the CMIO.
- The ACMIO will provide clinical informatics services across Keck Medicine of USC facilities as assigned by the CMIO.
- Adheres to high ethical standards and keeps commitments. Collaboratively lead, solicit input, and represent providers, clinicians, patients, and business needs and wishes.
- Promote system thinking while effectively and respectively listening and responding to requests, inquiries, and complaints.
- Leverage clinical data and effective presentation skills while promoting teamwork and cross-departmental collaborations.
- Participates in and leads advisory and work groups and builds trusting relationships with physicians, nurses, clinicians, business leaders, and staff.
- Lead and coordinate the transformation of clinical care through the advanced use of information and technology.
- Provide clinical leadership to improve providers’ engagement with clinical information systems.
- Enable training and continued education by working with the Information Services training team and by educating clinicians on the appropriate use of information technology, and by providing peer-to-peer support when needed.
- Support other IT leaders in relationships with hospital leadership, medical school leadership, and community practice leaders.
- Other duties as assigned.