Clinical Informatics Director (CID)

Leidos • Reston, VA

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About The Position

The CID is the senior clinical leader on the task order, providing physician-level subject matter expertise to ensure that all clinical informatics work is clinically sound, safe, and aligned with evidence-based standards of care. Holding an MD or DO degree, the CID bridges the critical gap between technical health IT implementation and real-world clinical practice within the VA healthcare environment. The CID leads the contract's clinical informatics resources, exercising authoritative clinical judgment over EHR content design, clinical decision support (CDS) rule development, care process model (CPM) design, clinical data mapping, and clinician workflow analysis. Given VA's unique position as the nation's largest integrated healthcare system, serving over 9 million Veterans, and its concurrent management of both the legacy VistA/CPRS environment and the Federal EHR modernization effort, the CID must be deeply conversant in both the clinical and informatics dimensions of this environment. The CID also provides essential clinical oversight for health informatics research activities, NLP applications, AI/ML clinical tools, and population health analytics.

Requirements

• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited institution; active medical license (unrestricted) required.
• Minimum 8 years of post-graduate experience with at least 3 years of dedicated clinical informatics experience in a healthcare system of comparable complexity.
• Direct experience working with electronic health record systems in a clinical informatics capacity, including clinical decision support, order set design, or EHR content governance.
• Familiarity with federal healthcare data standards including HL7 FHIR, HL7 v2, SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10-CM/PCS, and RxNorm.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex clinical and informatics concepts to both clinical and non-clinical audiences.
• Experience collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams including IT developers, terminologists, data scientists, and clinical stakeholders.

Nice To Haves

• Board certification in Clinical Informatics (ABPM – Clinical Informatics) strongly preferred.
• Master's or fellowship training in Biomedical Informatics, Health Informatics, or a related field.
• Prior VA clinical experience or experience implementing clinical informatics solutions within a VA or DoD healthcare environment.
• Demonstrated experience with VistA/CPRS clinical configuration, order entry, or clinical content design.
• Experience with Oracle Health (Cerner Millennium) clinical content design, CDS authoring, or clinical workflow build.
• Familiarity with VA's National Clinical Informatics Group (NCIG) processes, VA/DoD Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs), and VA performance measure frameworks.
• Experience with NLP annotation for clinical text, AI/ML model validation in clinical settings, or clinical data phenotyping for research.
• AMIA membership and/or prior publication in peer-reviewed clinical informatics journals.

Responsibilities

• Lead all clinical informatics resources on the task order, providing physician-level governance and clinical oversight to ensure that all health informatics deliverables meet clinical acceptability, patient safety, and quality standards.
• Serve as the authoritative clinical reviewer for clinical decision support (CDS) rules, order sets, care pathways, clinical content configurations, and clinical data models deployed within VistA/CPRS and/or Oracle Health Cerner Millennium.
• Provide clinical guidance to the Health IT Informatics Analyst team on system configuration decisions that directly impact clinical workflows, patient care processes, and Veteran safety.
• Review and validate clinical terminology mappings (SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-10) to ensure clinical accuracy and fitness for intended use within VA EHR systems.
• Collaborate with the Lead Terminologist to ensure that clinical concept representations accurately reflect clinical intent and support downstream data analytics, quality measurement, and population health management.
• Provide clinical input to human factors engineering activities, including usability assessments of clinical interfaces, EHR screen designs, and clinical workflow tools to minimize cognitive burden and reduce the risk of clinical errors.
• Support VHA clinical stakeholder engagement activities, including clinician interviews, focus groups, and clinical advisory board participation to gather requirements and validate solutions.
• Review informatics research proposals, NLP annotation guidelines, and AI/ML model validation frameworks to ensure clinical relevance, methodological soundness, and alignment with VA research standards.
• Ensure all clinical informatics activities comply with applicable standards including HIPAA, 38 CFR Part 1 (VA medical records), Title 38 U.S.C. § 7332 (confidential health records), and VA clinical data governance policies.
• Provide clinical content for proposal responses to Task orders, oral presentations, and technical demonstrations, serving as the clinical spokesperson for the program team when required.
• Monitor current clinical informatics literature, industry standards (HL7, ONC, AMIA guidelines), and VA clinical policy updates to ensure program work remains current with evidence-based practice.

Benefits

• Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement.
• More details are available here.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: Ph.D. or professional degree