Manager, Health Informatics

Munsonhealthcare1; Traverse City (MI); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Munson Healthcare in Traverse City is seeking a senior leader to head the Clinical Informatics department onsite five days a week. You will guide staff development, performance management, and day-to-day operations while partnering with clinical and IT leaders to optimize EHR performance and patient safety.

The role focuses on workflow redesign, standardization of EHR practices, and cross-functional initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, business, healthcare, or related field; clinical background required.
• 8 years of Clinical Informatics experience.
• Leadership and ability to influence stakeholders across organizational levels.
• Experience with EHR implementation and optimization.
• Cerner EMR/CPOE experience preferred.
• Strong PM, analytical, and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Clinical Informatics department including staff development and performance management.
• Advise clinical and operational leaders to optimize EHR performance, quality, patient safety, and efficiency.
• Direct workflow redesign and process improvement initiatives.
• Establish EHR best practices, standardization, and performance improvement strategies.
• Partner with IT and clinical leadership to evaluate, implement, and optimize new technologies, system upgrades, and clinical applications.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Communication

Project management

Analytical thinking

Organizational skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, business, healthcare, or a related field

Tools

Cerner EMR/CPOE

Job description

This is an onsite role with the expectation of working in Traverse City five days per week.

Your Leadership in Action

Lead the Clinical Informatics department, including staff development, performance management, and operational oversight.

Serve as a trusted advisor to clinical and operational leaders to optimize EHR performance, quality, patient safety, and efficiency.

Direct workflow redesign and process improvement initiatives to enhance clinical and operational outcomes.

Establish and implement EHR best practices, standardization efforts, and performance improvement strategies across the organization.

Partner with IT and clinical leadership to evaluate, implement, and optimize new technologies, system upgrades, and clinical applications.

What's Required

Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, healthcare, or a related field and 8 years of Clinical Informatics experience required. A clinical background is required. In lieu of a bachelor's degree, an additional 4 years of progressively responsible leadership experience managing others will be considered.

Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and communication skills with the ability to influence stakeholders across all organizational levels.

Proven success leading clinical and operational performance improvement initiatives in healthcare.

Experience with EHR implementation and optimization required; Cerner EMR/CPOE experience preferred.

Strong project management, analytical, and organizational skills with experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives

Munson Healthcare requires all employees be vaccinated or have lab confirmed immunity for Measles, Mumps, Rubella and Varicella. MHC also requires all employees to receive a flu vaccine during the flu season in the year that they are hired and annually thereafter, or receive an approved medical or religious exemption.