Chief Medical Information Officer

SSM Health; Missouri; Hybrid; USD 230,000 - 350,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health in Missouri seeks a Chief Digital and Information Officer to lead clinical information systems strategy across the region. You will guide EHR governance, clinical content standards, and physician informatics teams in partnership with the CNIO to improve care delivery.

You will drive clinical analytics, safety practices, and AI-enabled solutions while ensuring regulatory compliance and interoperability. Travel to St.

Qualifications

• MD or DO from an accredited school and board certification.
• Active or eligible medical license in one of the required states.
• Proven leadership in clinical informatics and governance.
• Experience leading EHR optimization and CDS programs.

Responsibilities

• Leadership role on the IT executive team, aligning clinical tech with priorities.
• Own clinical informatics governance and set standards for EHR changes.
• Lead physician informatics teams and partner with CNIO and nursing informatics.
• Ensure clinician experience and efficiency in the EHR with measurable metrics.
• Oversee clinical decision support, content lifecycle, and AI initiatives.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Strategic thinking

Healthcare IT

Education

MD or DO from an accredited school

Tools

Epic

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.

MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type

Regular

Job Highlights

• Named 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025 - Becker's Healthcare
• Named One of the World’s Happiest Workplace 2025 – WorkL
• Named One of America’s Best In-State Employers 2025 - Forbes
• Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women 2025 – Newsweek
• Named One of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Culture, Belonging & Community 2026 – Newsweek

SSM Health is a Catholic, not-for-profit health system serving the comprehensive health needs of communities across the Midwest through a robust and fully integrated health care delivery system. The organization’s 40,000 team members and more than 13,900+ providers are committed to providing exceptional health care services and revealing God’s healing presence to everyone they serve.

With care delivery sites in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Wisconsin, SSM Health includes 23 hospitals, more than 300 physician offices and other outpatient and virtual care services, 12 post-acute facilities, comprehensive home care and hospice services, a pharmacy benefit company, a health insurance company and an accountable care organization. It is one of the largest employers in every community it serves.

This position is remote work eligible, with strong preference to those within our 4-state footprint of WI, IL, MO, and OK. Frequent travel to St. Louis will be required as dictated by business needs.

Job Summary

Provides leadership in the implementation of clinical information systems that assist clinicians in the delivery of patient care. Develops short and long-term information management goals and plans ensuring alignment with broader organization priorities.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves on the IT executive leadership team, setting clinical technology strategy and aligning priorities with operational, quality, and clinical leaders across regions, in partnership with the CNIO.
• Along with the CNIO, owns clinical informatics governance: designs and chairs clinician advisory structures, sets standards, and makes or brokers prioritization decisions for EHR and clinical system changes.
• Leads and develops the physician informatics team and partners closely with the CNIO and nursing informatics leadership.
• Is accountable for clinician experience and efficiency in the EHR, including documentation burden, inbasket volume, usability, training, and adoption, with defined measures and regular reporting.
• Oversees the clinical decision support program and clinical content lifecycle, including governance to retire low-value alerts and keep content evidence-based and standardized.
• Provides clinical leadership for evaluating, deploying, and monitoring AI and emerging technologies, including ambient documentation and AI-drafted patient communication, for safety, workflow fit, equity, adoption, and value.
• Champions health IT safety, including review of EHR-related safety events, downtime readiness, and safe design practices.
• Partners with analytics and quality leaders to set clinical analytics priorities and to show whether technology investments deliver measurable improvements in quality, safety, experience, and cost.
• Maintains awareness of regulatory and industry requirements affecting clinical systems (interoperability, information blocking, quality reporting) and advises leadership accordingly.
• Supports research and clinical trial workflows within the EHR.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Required

• MD or DO from an accredited school
• Board certification in a primary clinical specialty, with an active or eligible medical license in Wisconsin, Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, or the primary state of practice
• At least 7 years of clinical practice and at least 5 years of progressive clinical informatics leadership, including leading clinical governance or physician informatics teams
• Experience leading EHR optimization, clinical decision support, or clinical content programs in a complex, multi-facility setting
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence with executives, physicians, nurses, and IT teams, and to communicate clearly with each group

Preferred

• Epic Physician Builder certification, or deep hands-on experience with Epic
• Experience in a multi-state or multi-region health system, including EHR consolidation or standardization work
• Experience evaluating, implementing, or governing AI in clinical care, such as ambient documentation or generative AI in patient communication
• Track record of measurably reducing clinician documentation burden or improving EHR satisfaction
• Ongoing clinical practice
• Advanced degree in informatics, healthcare administration, or clinical/applied health data science

Department

8782020033 Chief Digital and Information Officer

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

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