Chief Medical Information Officer

SSM Health; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 350,000 - 650,000; Full time

Job summary

SSM Health in St. Louis, MO is seeking a Chief Digital and Information Officer to lead the organization’s clinical information systems strategy, governance, and advanced analytics across the enterprise.

The role requires directing EHR optimization, clinical content programs, and safety initiatives while aligning with regional leaders and the CNIO. The successful candidate will hold an MD or DO with board certification, have 5+ years of progressive clinical informatics leadership, and demonstrate

Qualifications

• MD/DO from an accredited school.
• Board certification in a primary clinical specialty, with active or eligible license in the primary state of practice.
• Progressive clinical informatics leadership experience.

Responsibilities

• Leads clinical technology strategy and aligns priorities with leaders across regions, with CNIO partnership.
• Owns clinical informatics governance and design of clinician advisory structures.
• Leads physician informatics team and collaborates with CNIO and nursing informatics leadership.
• Oversees clinician experience and efficiency in the EHR, including usability and adoption measures.
• Oversees the clinical decision support program and content lifecycle; ensures evidence-based governance.
• Provides leadership for evaluating AI and emerging technologies in clinical care for safety and value.
• Ensures health IT safety, downtime readiness, and safe design practices.
• Partners with analytics and quality leaders to show improvements in quality, safety, experience, and cost.

Skills

Clinical informatics leadership

EHR optimization

Executive communication

AI in clinical care

Clinical governance

Education

MD/DO

Board certification

Advanced degree in informatics

Tools

Epic knowledge

Analytics platforms

Job description

It's more than a career, it's a calling.
MO-SSM Health Mission Hill

Worker Type:
Regular

Job Highlights:

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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 will be based at our corporate headquarters in St. Louis, MO and will require relocation upon acceptance of the position.

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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