VP & Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) (Health System Vice President)

Mount Sinai Health Systems•UNAVAILABLE, UNAVAILABLE

46d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Mount Sinai Health System is seeking a Vice President & Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) to serve as the health system’s senior nursing technology & innovation executive. This role will lead the enterprise-wide strategy for nursing innovation, emerging technology, and care model transformation. The CNIO will report jointly to the Chief Nurse Executive and Chief Information Officer, working in partnership with the Executive Nurse Cabinet and broader Digital and Technology Partners, and Health Informatics teams.

Requirements

Over 7 years of progressive leadership roles within healthcare, including executive-level experience in nursing informatics, digital health, or clinical innovation
Experience implementing AI-enabled clinical workflows
Active Registered Nurse (RN) licensure; MSN or Masters in Informatics required
Excellent written, oral and interpersonal skills
Excellent organizational and analytical skills
Patient-focused & empathic
Bias toward action, change and growth
Executive presence
Strategic systems thinker
Comfortable with ambiguity & uncertainty
Able to foster working relationships with the team members and clients
Deep understanding of clinical analytics, nursing-sensitive indicators, operational performance metrics, and value measurement.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Epic EMR (preferred but not required)
DNP or PhD in Nursing, Informatics, or related field strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Lead the health system-wide nursing informatics and innovation portfolio and team of clinical and nurse informaticists and specialists, setting vision, priorities, and outcomes for nursing innovation across all hospital campuses and ambulatory sites.
Determine strategy and lead implementation of various solutions within the innovation units across the health system.
Lead the optimization of clinical systems, nursing documentation, decision support, workflow standardization, and technology-enabled nursing practice transformation.
Incorporate nursing research and evidence-based nursing knowledge into nursing practice, ensuring new technologies and care models are grounded in science and professional practice standards.
Create communications strategy and cross-organizational vision for nursing innovation in concert with the overall nursing and health system strategy.
Understand the impact of regulatory and policy changes on nursing practice, including AI governance, and interpret and evangelize them across the enterprise.
Develop the nursing innovation strategies related to the evaluation, procurement, implementation, scaling, and optimization of emerging technologies, including AI, virtual care, ambient documentation, and automation.
Combine knowledge of patient care, innovation and informatics concepts, and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals and patients to promote safe, effective and efficient use of emerging technology in clinical settings.
Act as a change agent in the identification, development, planning, implementation and value measurement of innovation strategies to support quality patient care, professional practice, and workforce experience.
Work with clinical, IT, and digital leaders to ensure the adoption and effectiveness of technologies and workflows to positively impact clinical outcomes, burnout reduction, and value realization.
Collaborate with nurse executives and operational leaders in planning and implementing program expansion and growth, including new business ventures, care model redesign, construction, and strategic projects.
Serve as the executive nursing leader for emerging technology, representing the health system in strategic partnerships, academic collaborations, industry forums, and enterprise governance councils.
Serve as a member of the Executive Nurse Cabinet, partnering with Chief Nursing Officers and Vice Presidents of Nursing across the health system to identify, prioritize, and advance nursing innovation and informatics initiatives at the system and local levels. Establish mechanisms to share best practices, scale successful innovations, and align local priorities with the enterprise nursing strategy.
Develop technology-enabled workforce transformation strategies that improve workforce sustainability, care-team effectiveness, and patient outcomes.