Senior Director of Informatics – IT, Data & Clinical Informatics

By the Bay Health; Larkspur (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Generous benefits

Supportive work environment

Job summary

By The Bay Health in California seeks a Senior Director of Informatics – IT, Data & Clinical Informatics to lead enterprise informatics, IT, and reporting across the organization. You will translate strategic goals into team plans and align governance with executive leadership.

You will ensure high performance of the Epic EMR, drive data-driven decision making, and guide investments to maximize patient care outcomes within hospice, palliative, and home health services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, data science, health informatics, or related field.
• 7+ years of IT leadership experience.
• Experience overseeing an Epic Electronic Medical Records system.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Informatics team, ensuring performance and responsiveness to organization needs.
• Lead the IT and Informatics Governance processes and ensure alignment with senior and executive leadership.
• Ensure Electronic Medical Records system performance, supporting clinical and operational teams.
• Guide Informatics team to implement and maintain best practices.
• Prioritize investments for highest impact and alignment with organization strategy.
• Lead Informatics Trainer to deliver high quality education in a timely and customer-centric manner.
• Manage Informatics and IT team members to highest degree of excellence.
• Responsible for organization-wide data-management and reporting strategy.
• Evaluate and implement predictive analytics and generative AI tools within Epic Systems to drive operational efficiency, streamline clinical workflows, and improve patient care outcomes in hospice, palliative, and home health settings.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Governance

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems/CS/Data Science/Health Informatics

7+ years IT leadership experience

Experience overseeing an Epic EMR system

Tools

Epic EMR

Job description

Senior Director of Informatics – IT, Data & Clinical Informatics

By The Bay Health, a non-profit established in 1975, set the standard for hospice in the U.S. by emphasizing the role of the patient in making important medical decisions. Our […]

By The Bay Health, a non-profit established in 1975, set the standard for hospice in the U.S. by emphasizing the role of the patient in making important medical decisions. Our spectrum of home-based services now includes Skilled Home Health Care, Palliative Care, Adult Hospice Care and Pediatric Care. Our team approach strives to address practical, social, emotional and spiritual aspects of care, with the goal to maximize quality of life for our patients, caregivers and families.

This full-time position offers competitive pay, generous benefits and a supportive work environment.

As a member of the organization’s Senior Leadership Team, you will be responsible for all Informatics, data & reporting, and IT functions across the organization. You will translate the organization-wide strategy, establish your teams’ strategy, lead and manage them. You will partner with stakeholders within and outside the organization to ensure optimal performance of the Electronic Medical Record system, as well as accuracy and timeliness of operational reports. You will lead IT and Informatics governance processes.

Schedule

Monday – Friday; 8:30am – 5:00pm

Location

Onsite at our Larkspur, CA with 2 days remote option

By the Bay Health follows all CDPH vaccine requirements for healthcare personnel.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities include

• Lead the Informatics team, ensuring performance and responsiveness to organization needs
• Lead the IT and Informatics Governance processes and ensure full alignment with senior and executive leadership
• Ensure Electronic Medical Records system performance, supporting clinical and operational teams
• Guide Informatics team to implement and maintain best practices
• Partner with organization senior leadership to prioritize investments effort for highest impact & return, as well as alignment with organization strategy
• Lead Informatics Trainer to deliver highest quality education in a timely and customer-centric manner
• Manage Informatics and IT team members to highest degree of excellence
• Responsible for organization-wide data-management and reporting strategy
• Evaluate and implement predictive analytics and generative AI tools within Epic Systems to drive operational efficiency, streamline clinical workflows, and improve patient care outcomes in hospice, palliative, and home health settings

Education/Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, Health Informatics, or related field
• 7+ years of IT leadership experience
• Experience overseeing an Epic Electronic Medical Records system

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

• Epic certification, Dorothy/Comfort certification, preferred

Salary Range

$190K-$270K

By the Bay Health is proud to serve our community as an equal employment opportunity employer. Everyone is valued and welcome at BTBH. Our organization is committed to diversity, equity and continues to build a culture of inclusion by recruiting, screening, hiring and retaining any qualified individual without regard to age, race, color, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, registered domestic partner status, citizenship, physical or mental disability, legally protected medical condition, family care status, military care status, veteran status or any other consideration made unlawful by Federal, state, or local laws.