AVP, Nursing Informatics & Digital Strategy

OU Medicine, Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OU Health is seeking an AVP for Nursing Informatics to align technology and digital investments with clinical practice across the enterprise. This senior leader will bridge nursing care delivery, workflow optimization, and informatics to optimize governance and EMR workflows.

The role includes planning, budgeting, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts, with focus on translating care delivery into evidence-based information systems that improve quality,

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) required; Master’s degree in Nursing, Nursing Informatics, Healthcare Administration, or related field required.
• If graduate degree is not in Informatics, certification is required at time of hire.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive nursing leadership experience, including direct experience in clinical informatics, EMR optimization, or digital health strategy.

Responsibilities

• Own the nursing informatics and digital strategic roadmap, including planning, budget, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts.
• Own nursing clinical documentation governance to ensure alignment with scope of practice and policy integration.
• Evaluate advanced technologies, AI, and clinical applications for implications to nursing practice and workflow.
• Translate clinical care delivery needs into EMR workflow design that aligns people, process, and technology.
• Align and inform digital platform strategy with organizational strategy domains and nursing priorities to elevate quality, safety, and engagement.
• Provide oversight of nursing documentation build and design, in partnership with virtual nursing and care process workflow development to scale.
• Direct nursing dashboards for key performance measures and Nurse Sensitive Indicators, including central line and catheter bundle compliance, predictive analytics, hourly rounding, and medication safety.
• Lead change management for nursing informatics and advanced technology initiatives in partnership with the ETS PMO for Clinical Operations.
• Evaluate, recommend, plan, and provide project oversight for emerging technologies, including AI-enabled clinical workflows.
• Lead and develop the Nursing Informatics team, including alignment of clinical informatics and translation of data to practice for nursing leaders, and support for nursing leadership and front-line nurses — including the Epic Nursing Super User program.
• Development and implementation of a system-wide Nurse Clinical Documentation Governance structure.

Skills

Nursing informatics

EMR optimization

Epic EMR

Data analytics

Change leadership

Governance

Budgeting

Education

BSN

MSN or related field

Tools

Epic EMR

EMR workflow design

Job description

OU Health is seeking an AVP for Nursing Informatics to align technology and digital investments with clinical practice across the enterprise. This senior leader will bridge nursing care delivery, workflow optimization, and informatics to optimize governance and EMR workflows.

The role includes planning, budgeting, contracting, and project oversight for implementation and optimization efforts, with focus on translating care delivery into evidence-based information systems that improve quality,