Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer

Providence•Renton, WA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is Providence’s senior physician informatics executive, accountable for the full spectrum of physician and Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) informatics across the enterprise. This role owns the physician experience with clinical technology end-to-end—from change management and major implementations to onboarding, education, and coaching; from relational support with practicing physicians and APCs to deep partnership with physician leaders and executive stakeholders. The VP, CMIO provides direct influence and partnered leadership over EHR and clinical technology strategy, shaping how tools such as clinical decision support, order sets, documentation workflows, and emerging technologies—including AI-enabled capabilities—are designed, governed, and used to drive outcomes. This is a high-trust, high-influence role that blends strategic leadership with hands-on engagement, requiring strong clinical credibility, systems thinking, and exceptional relationship leadership.

Requirements

MD or DO with active or eligible medical licensure
Minimum of 10 years of frontline clinical experience with deep understanding of physician and APC workflows
Minimum of 10 years leading clinical informatics, health IT, or digital transformation initiatives at scale
Proven success in physician engagement, change management, and enterprise influence

Nice To Haves

Clinical Informatics board certification or equivalent experience
Experience with large-scale EHR platforms (e.g., Epic) in complex health systems
Demonstrated leadership in clinical decision support, workflow optimization, and technology-enabled care models

Responsibilities

Accountable for physician and APC informatics strategy, execution, and outcomes across the enterprise.
Lead and develop a team of CMIOs with defined areas of focus (e.g., geography, specialty).
Serve as the senior physician voice for clinical technology decisions, ensuring alignment with real-world care delivery and specialty-specific needs.
Build deep, durable relationships with physicians, APCs, physician leaders, and medical staff governance bodies.
Own the Physician Success lifecycle: onboarding, education, optimization, coaching, and ongoing support.
Lead physician-centered change management for major clinical technology initiatives, ensuring adoption that is effective, sustainable, and humane.
Champion burden-reduction strategies that measurably improve clinician efficiency, satisfaction, and experience in practice.
Partner closely with IS, Application, and Clinical Informatics leadership to shape physician-facing technology strategy.
Provide clinical direction for: Clinical decision support, Order sets and clinical content, Physician/APC workflow modernization, including ambient and AI-enabled tools, Informatics governance.
Ensure technology is used intentionally to advance quality, safety, experience, equity, and clinical outcomes.
Translate clinical, operational, and strategic goals into informatics priorities and measurable results.
Leverage data and clinician feedback to guide optimization and continuous improvement.
Ensure informatics investments deliver measurable value for patients, caregivers, and the organization.
Serve as a member of the Clinical Informatics executive leadership team, helping shape culture, vision, and service delivery model.
Establish and steward physician informatics governance balancing enterprise standards with local flexibility.
Partner in a dyad model with CNIO and collaborate with clinical, operational, quality, and digital leaders.
Lead and mentor CMIOs, physician informaticists, and physician leadership roles across direct and matrixed structures.