Clinical Informatics Director

Commonwealth of VA Careers; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Telework opportunities

Job summary

Commonwealth of VA Careers seeks a Clinical Informatics Director to lead EHR adoption and optimization across Virginia's state facilities. You will shape policies, governance, and reporting to improve safety, documentation, and clinical outcomes.

The role requires expertise in health informatics, data analysis, and regulatory standards, with collaboration across multiple facilities and stakeholders. Telework options may be considered per agency policy.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of hospital/healthcare integrated systems and workflows.
• Strong informatics, data management, and statistics background.
• Experience with behavioral health populations and EHR optimization.
• Ability to lead documentation improvements for compliance and revenue.
• Experience with post-implementation change management and governance.

Responsibilities

• Develop and optimize EHR utilization across state facilities.
• Create policies to support adoption, regulation compliance, safety, and training.
• Provide governance for EHR workflows, reporting, and data analysis.
• Coordinate with facility informaticists and stakeholders for improvements.
• Serve as primary contact for clinical enhancement requests from state facilities.

Skills

Hospital systems

Informatics

Data management

Statistics

Behavioral health

Stakeholder engagement

EHR documentation

Change management

Regulatory standards

Quality improvement

EHR governance

Cerner Millennium

Tools

Cerner Millennium

Job description

Title: Clinical Informatics Director

State Role Title:Gen Admin Manager II

Hiring Range: $115,000-$135,239

Pay Band: 6

Agency: Dept Behavioral Health/Develop

Location:Central Office

Agency Website:www.dbhds.virginia.gov

Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

The Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (DBHDS) is seeking a highly qualified professional to serve as the Clinical Director of Informatics. This position supports the provision of behavioral health treatment by ensuring consistent adoption, enhancement, and utilization of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system in its 12 state facilities, in order to maximize efficiency, improve healthcare delivery, and increase safety. This position is responsible for developing systemic policies and procedures to support electronic health record optimization related to adoption, implementation, regulatory compliance, safety, documentation, training, workflows, and quality expectations including a robust reporting strategy and data analysis. This position develops data driven initiatives to support change management, enhance engagement, productivity, and service excellence by exploring new technologies or seeking improvements in current EHR functionality and technology; provides guidance for facility EHR Informaticists in the implementation and monitoring of EHR utilization; and develops systemic recommendations to address regulatory survey and audit findings regarding EHR documentation and reporting. This position also oversees and directs an effective EHR Governance process to support evidence-based decision making; ensures internal and external stakeholder collaboration in review of workflow processes and enhancement requests to meet the needs of the facility system in a collegial and consistent manner; and serves as primary point of contact for all clinical enhancement requests from state facilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge of hospital/healthcare integrated systems, administrative and clinical processes, and workflows.
• Thorough understanding of informatics, data management, and statistics.
• Knowledge of behavioral health, developmental disabilities, dementia, geriatric, child/adolescent, and other vulnerable populations and their needs.
• Strong interpersonal skills to engage employees and stakeholders, regarding medical documentation, utilization management, risk mitigation, quality standards, and recommendations.
• Experience leading documentation improvements to support increase, revenue generation, and compliance through EHR documentation.
• Ability to facilitate post-implementation change management activities.
• Experience with Joint Commission, Medicare/Medicaid standards, quality assurance, health informatics, hospital organizations, operations, and medical record requirements.

Additional Considerations

• Proficiency in programming languages and electronic medical record software.
• Electronic health record oversight for a multi-location healthcare organization.
• Experience with Cerner Millennium EHR or equivalent.

Special Instructions

This position is eligible, however not guaranteed, for telework opportunities; availability, hours, and duration of telework shall be approved as outlined in the Commonwealth telework policy.

DBHDS welcomes all applicants authorized to work in the U.S. For more information on how to seek this authorization, please refer to Working in the United States or contact the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office directly.

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Contact Information

Name: Keiana Bobbitt

Phone: N/A

Email: [e-mail] - Inquiries Only/No Submissions, to include resumes.

In support of the Commonwealth’s commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at 800-552-5019.

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.