Medical Dir. Medical Informatics

University Medical Center of El Paso • El Paso, TX

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About The Position

The Medical Director, Medical Informatics serves as the physician leader connecting clinical care with technology across University Medical Center of El Paso and affiliated facilities supported by UMC Information Technology. The role provides physician leadership for the planning, implementation, optimization, and ongoing improvement of the electronic health record (EHR) and other clinical systems. It represents the physician and provider perspective in technology-related decisions and works with physicians, nursing, clinical operations, Information Technology, Quality, Patient Safety, Health Information Management, Compliance, Privacy, Revenue Cycle, and other stakeholders. The position helps translate clinical needs into practical technology solutions that support safe, efficient, high-quality patient care while promoting provider adoption and effective use of clinical technologies.

Requirements

• At least seven years of post-residency clinical practice experience and knowledge of healthcare workflows.
• Experience with EHRs and clinical information systems.
• Demonstrated physician leadership.
• Experience leading or participating in EHR optimization, clinical technology initiatives, workflow redesign, quality improvement, patient safety, and clinical governance activities.
• Current, unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Texas.
• Current board certification in the physician’s primary medical specialty through an appropriate, recognized certifying board.
• Current medical staff appointment and clinical privileges, or eligibility to obtain them.
• Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) degree from an accredited medical school.
• Strong knowledge of physician workflows, clinical practice, hospital operations, and medical staff governance.
• Working knowledge of EHR systems, clinical decision support, health information exchange, interoperability, clinical analytics, and healthcare information technology.
• Ability to translate complex clinical requirements into language understandable to technical teams, and technical capabilities or limitations into language understandable to clinicians.
• Strong physician-to-physician communication, facilitation, and influence skills.
• Ability to build consensus among physicians, nursing, IT, operations, and executive leadership.
• Understanding of healthcare regulatory requirements affecting clinical systems, including HIPAA, CMS requirements, quality reporting, patient safety, privacy, and information security.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, conflict-resolution, and change-management skills.
• Ability to evaluate technology in terms of clinical value, workflow, patient safety, usability, risk, cost, and organizational readiness.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively in a matrixed healthcare environment.
• Knowledge of project management, change management, workflow redesign, and process-improvement methodologies.

Nice To Haves

• Board certification in Clinical Informatics through the American Board of Preventive Medicine or another applicable, recognized certifying board.

Responsibilities

• Provide physician leadership for planning, implementing, optimizing, and continuously improving the EHR and other clinical systems.
• Represent the physician and provider perspective in technology-related decisions.
• Collaborate with physicians, nursing, clinical operations, Information Technology, Quality, Patient Safety, Health Information Management, Compliance, Privacy, Revenue Cycle, and other stakeholders.
• Translate clinical needs into practical technology solutions that support safe, efficient, high-quality patient care.
• Promote provider adoption and effective use of clinical technologies.

What This Job Offers

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