Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO

Gritter Francona; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Care Plan

Retirement Plan

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off

Disability Insurance

Training & Development

Job summary

Gritter Francona seeks a Clinical Informatics Director (MD/DO) to lead informatics strategy and governance for a VA-related contract. You will align clinical, operational, and IT goals and chair governance councils to ensure standards and safety across sites.

You will translate clinical requirements into optimized workflows, lead content standardization, and oversee data quality, interoperability, and analytics for performance improvement. Strong leadership and regulatory knowledge are essential.

Qualifications

• MD or DO with an active and unrestricted medical license in the U.S.
• 8+ years of leadership experience in clinical informatics.
• Proven leadership of enterprise-scale EHR and clinical technology programs.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory frameworks (HIPAA, CMS, ONC) and interoperability.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and executive-level influence.

Responsibilities

• Lead informatics strategy and governance for the contract.
• Chair clinical informatics committees and drive policy
• Translate clinical requirements into optimized workflows and CDS
• Oversee data quality, interoperability, and analytics for quality improvement
• Direct clinician education, adoption metrics, and stakeholder engagement

Skills

Leadership

Strategic planning

Clinical informatics

Regulatory knowledge

Stakeholder communication

Change management

Education

MD or DO with active medical license in the US

Tools

EHR systems (Cerner/Oracle Millennium)

HL7/FHIR interoperability

Data analytics tools

Job description

VHA supports and provides medical care for VA’s eligible beneficiaries through the VA health program, which includes VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) and contracted health care networks. The Office of Clinical Informatics within the Office of Health Informatics (OHI), Digital Health Office (DHO) advances the enterprise standard of care and patient experience using improved data, tools, and informatics processes organized around continuously delivering value to its customers. This is achieved through Lean-Agile delivery of clinical practice solutions that support best practice standards for clinical care. OHI is further responsible for ensuring the success of the modernized VA EHR, Oracle Health Millennium/Cerner through continuous exploration, integration, deployment and release on demand of Integrated Health Technology (IHT) solutions. These efforts aim to increase Veterans' access to care and support their active participation in their healthcare. Gritter Francona is looking for a Clinical Informatics Director, MD/DO to help support a potential project to assist this objective.

Strategic Leadership & Governance

• Lead the informatics strategy and roadmap for the contract, aligning clinical, operational, and IT goals to organizational strategy and regulatory requirements.
• Chair or co-chair clinical informatics committees, governance councils, and multidisciplinary working groups.
• Establish and enforce clinical informatics policies, standards, and best practices, including change control and clinical safety/quality oversight.

Clinical & Workflow Excellence

• Translate clinical requirements into optimized, evidence-based workflows, order sets, clinical decision support (CDS), care pathways, and documentation standards.
• Champion safety, usability, and clinician experience by applying human factors and workflow engineering principles.
• Ensure content standardization (terminologies, value sets, templates) and reduce unwarranted variation across sites, service lines, and specialties.

Technology & Data

• Oversee selection, configuration, and optimization of EHRs and related systems (e.g., ancillary, device integration, imaging, telehealth, patient engagement, population health).
• Guide data quality initiatives, interoperability (HL7, FHIR, APIs, registries, HIE), and analytics to support clinical quality, performance improvement, and reporting.
• Evaluate and govern the use of AI/ML-enabled clinical tools and decision support for safety, bias mitigation, transparency, and clinical efficacy.

Quality, Safety, and Compliance

• Ensure clinical informatics deliverables are acceptable, high quality, and standardized to meet clinical, contractual, and regulatory standards (e.g., CMS, The Joint Commission, ONC, HIPAA).
• Lead clinical risk assessments, safety event reviews related to health IT, and corrective actions.
• Oversee testing, validation, and go-live readiness for clinical functionality and content changes.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Management

• Serve as the clinical liaison among providers, nursing, ancillary departments, IT, operations, and executive leadership.
• Lead structured change management strategies, including communication plans, stakeholder alignment, and adoption metrics.
• Direct clinician education, competency, and super-user programs; monitor adoption and satisfaction and remediate barriers.

Contract Leadership & Delivery

• Manage the contract’s clinical informatics scope, staffing, budget (as applicable), milestones, deliverables, and risk management.
• Produce high-quality documentation (program plans, governance artifacts, status reports, SOPs, validation evidence) and present to internal/external stakeholders.
• Ensure timely, compliant delivery across environments.

Requirements

• MD or DO, active and unrestricted medical license in a U.S. state or territory.
• 8+ years demonstrated experience as a Clinical Informatics Director and/or Clinical Informatics Lead within a healthcare system (government or private sector).
• Proven leadership of enterprise-level EHR and clinical technology programs (implementation, optimization, upgrades, interoperability).
• Demonstrated success in clinical workflow transformation, content standardization, and quality/safety initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of healthcare regulatory frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, CMS quality programs, ONC certification), clinical standards (e.g., terminologies, order sets), and interoperability (HL7 v2, C-CDA, FHIR).
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills; able to influence across clinical and technical teams and executive leadership.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary teams and managing complex portfolios, budgets, and timelines.

Benefits

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k, IRA)
• Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&DD)
• Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays)
• Short Term & Long Term Disability
• Training & Development