Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)

PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION 

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) serves as the strategic and operational bridge between clinical practice and health information technology, ensuring that digital solutions enable high‑quality, safety, and efficient patient care. As a physician leader, the CMIO champions the optimization and adoption of clinical information systems, translates frontline clinical needs into effective technology strategies, and guides system‑wide initiatives that advance clinical excellence, provider engagement, and data‑driven decision‑making. Collaborating with medical staff, operational leaders, IT, quality, and informatics teams, the CMIO plays a critical role in aligning technology investments with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and the evolving needs of patients and clinicians.

This position reports to the Chief Digital and Information Offer (CDIO) of Blanchard Valley Health System, with a dotted line reporting relationship to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO).

JOB FUNCTIONS

Every effort has been made to make this job description as complete as possible. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment.

DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY

You are delegated the authority, responsibility, and accountability necessary to carry out your assigned duties.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Practicing physician with recent frontline clinical experience and strong peer credibility, Board certified in a clinical specialty.
• Willingness to maintain a limited clinical practice (approximately one week per month or equivalent) and obtain and maintain licensure in the State of Ohio.
• 5 years of progressive management/leadership experience.
• Experience in both inpatient and ambulatory clinical workflows.
• Experience leading clinical informatics or EHR optimization work with evidence of delivery.
• Comfort operating in a CIO-led model with a close, dotted-line partnership to the CMO.
• Ability to translate clinical priorities into executable IT work.
• Strong provider engagement skills, including listening, trust-building, and managing change.
• Ability to partner with analytics team and utilize clinical and operational data to inform decisions and guide improvement work.
• Experience aligning informatics initiatives with quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
• Positive service-oriented interpersonal and communication skills required.
• Individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient served on his/her assigned unit/department. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient's status. Must be able to interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to their age-specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in the area’s policies and procedures.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience serving as a CMIO or Associate CMIO.
• Experience working in a dyad or triad leadership model (e.g., CIO/CMO/CNO).
• Deep, hands-on experience with a major EHR platform.
• Formal informatics training and/or board certification.
• Experience with clinical AI and/or advanced clinical decision support.
• Participation in external informatics forums and/or professional thought leadership activities.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

This position requires a full range of body motion with intermittent walking, lifting, bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting, and standing. The associate will be required to walk for up to one hour a day, sit continuously for six hours a day and stand for one hour a day. The individual must be able to lift twenty to fifty pounds and reach work above the shoulders. The individual must have good eye-hand coordination and fine finger dexterity for simple grasping tasks. The individual must have excellent verbal communication skills to perform daily tasks. The associate must have corrected vision and hearing in the normal range. The individual must be able to operate a motor vehicle for business travel and community involvement.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

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1. Lead the clinical informatics and training teams by setting strategy, priorities, and performance expectations; ensuring appropriate resourcing; and driving consistent execution and outcomes.
2. Establish and operate effective clinical informatics and AI governance (intake, prioritization, decision rights, standards, and oversight) to enable timely decisions, reduce variation, and prevent bottlenecks.
3. Lead enterprise adoption and scaling of clinical AI by defining clinical use cases, ensuring safety and compliance guardrails, monitoring performance and unintended consequences, and driving measurable value realization.
4. Drive EHR modernization and ongoing optimization to improve usability, efficiency, and clinician experience through clinician-informed governance, transparent prioritization, and disciplined change management.
5. Standardize clinical workflows where it improves patient safety, quality, compliance, and operational efficiency while respecting specialty needs; define success metrics and ensure measurable improvement in provider experience and workflow performance.
6. Build and sustain credibility and trust with physicians, clinical leaders, operational partners, and executive leadership through effective communication, visibility, and effective change leadership.
7. Partner with Quality, Safety, Compliance, and Risk to ensure clinical system design supports patient safety, regulatory requirements, and high-reliability practices (e.g., order sets, alerts, documentation standards).
8. Own clinician adoption, proficiency, and satisfaction outcomes for clinical systems by partnering with training, operations, and IT to develop role-based education, at-the-elbow support, and feedback loops.
9. Define and track informatics performance measures (quality, safety, efficiency, experience) and use clinical and operational data to prioritize work, monitor outcomes, and communicate progress to stakeholders.
10. Lead and oversee clinical interoperability and information exchange across systems (e.g., HL7/FHIR interfaces, HIE participation, and internal/external data sharing) to support continuity of care, regulatory compliance, and high-quality clinical workflows.
11. Serve as a key clinical leader for major health IT initiatives (upgrades, new modules, integrations, digital/front-door solutions), including vendor partnership, clinical readiness, go-live support, and post-implementation optimization.