Chief, Medical Information Officer

Encompass Health • Vestavia Hills, AL

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is a physician executive who bridges clinical practice and information technology to ensure that health information systems enhance patient safety, quality of care, clinician experience, appropriate clinical documentation, and operational efficiency. The CMIO provides strategic leadership for clinical informatics and serves as the primary Information Technology (IT) liaison to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Deputy CMO, the hospital’s medical staff, and the ACE IT team. Working closely with the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and in collaboration with the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) and Deputy CMO, the CMIO provides consultative support to the ACE IT team. This includes assisting with physician training as needed and setting and executing the agenda for the design of information systems to improve physician experience, clinical documentation, and clinical workflows. The CMIO is responsible for the vision and execution of all clinical, clinical documentation, and clinical artificial intelligence (AI) initiatives. The CMIO represents the Company at national and industry meetings at the discretion of the CIO.

Requirements

• Licensed to practice as a Medical Doctor
• Board Certified in area of Specialty; PM&R, and neurology are particularly relevant.
• M.D. or D.O. required.
• Minimum 10 years clinical experience
• Demonstrated leadership experience in clinical informatics, EHR optimization, or related areas.
• Ability to operate effectively in a corporate healthcare environment, including use of standard administrative and clinical technology tools, effective verbal and written communication, and adherence to organizational policies related to professionalism, confidentiality, and workplace standards; capable of performing essential functions of an executive leadership role in an office-based and travel-dependent setting.
• Oral communication, written communication, active listening. Must be able to speak and understand English.
• Information ordering, deductive reasoning, social perceptiveness, time management, critical thinking.
• Ability to coordinate, analyze, observe, make decisions, and meet deadlines in a detail-oriented manner.
• Ability to work independently without continuous supervision.
• Sound professional judgment, dependability, resourcefulness, initiative, and attention to detail.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively, provide leadership, influence organizational behavior, and create alignment across disparate groups.
• An extremely high level of integrity, tact and discretion, and the ability to maintain independence, confidentiality, and trust.
• A track record of managing and achieving operational excellence in a large, multi-site organization
• Strong technology skills.
• A proactive and energetic self-starter who demonstrates a sense of urgency, creativity and a can-do attitude in the achievement of long-term and short-term goals.
• A broad understanding of inpatient rehabilitation healthcare marketing concepts.
• Skilled in developing improvements in work methods.
• Exceptional ethical and moral values
• Ability to collaborate effectively with and gain credibility from Corporate/Regional Senior Leadership, Physicians, hospital CEOs and hospital Clinical Leadership.
• Strong communication and influence skills. The ability to inspire confidence and work successfully with varied audiences.
• Ability to interpret and analyze operational reports, identify improvement opportunities and implement solutions.

Responsibilities

• Sets the clinical vision, strategy, and optimization of electronic health record (EHR) and clinical information systems.
• Translates clinical requirements into technical specifications and workflows in partnership with ITG.
• Serves as the physician champion for major health IT initiatives, including EHR implementations, upgrades, optimization and clinical AI initiatives.
• Drive continuous EHR optimization to reduce clinician burden and improve usability
• Enable patient safety, quality improvement, and regulatory compliance through effective design and use of clinical systems.
• Leverages clinical data and analytics to improve outcomes, reduce variation, and support evidence-based care.
• Ensures health IT systems support clinical quality reporting and performance improvement initiatives.
• Acts as a liaison between physicians, clinical staff, and IT teams.
• Leads change management efforts to drive clinician adoption and satisfaction with health IT tools.
• Oversees clinician training, education, and ongoing optimization of EHR workflows.
• Partners with the CIO, CMO, and other executives to align clinical IT initiatives with organizational strategy and translate innovation into measurable clinical and operational value.
• Participate in clinical IT governance, prioritization, budgeting, and vendor selection.
• Ensure compliance with healthcare regulations, privacy, and security standards related to clinical systems.
• Shares clinical experience with and provides mentorship to the ACE IT Team.
• Serves as an enterprise clinical IT leader, guiding physicians and clinical staff in the effective adoption, optimization, and use of digital health technologies to improve care quality, patient safety, and clinician experience
• Collaborates with nursing, therapy, analytics, quality, and operational leaders to advance interdisciplinary, patient centered care delivery and standardized clinical workflows
• Stays current on emerging healthcare technologies, interoperability standards, informatics best practices, and regulatory requirements.
• Leads clinical engagement and consensus‑building for major health IT initiatives, acting as a trusted liaison between clinical stakeholders and information technology.

Benefits

• Affordable medical, dental and vision plans for full-time and part-time employees and their families.
• Generous paid time off that accrues over time.
• Tuition reimbursement and continuing education opportunities.
• Company-matching 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.
• Flexible spending and health savings accounts.
• A community of people who love what they do.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Executive