Chief Medical Information Officer

You Belong Here.

At MultiCare, we strive to offer a true sense of belonging for all our employees. Across our health care network, you will find a dynamic range of meaningful careers, opportunities for growth, safe workplaces, and flexible schedules. We are connected by our mission - partnering and healing for a healthy future - and dedicated to the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

FTE:1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Mon-Fri

The Pay Scale is $345,010 to $466,773

Position Summary

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) provides executive‑level physician leadership for health informatics strategy across MultiCare Health System. The CMIO is accountable for ensuring that clinical information systems—particularly the electronic health record (EHR)—enhance patient care, safety, quality, and clinician experience.
The CMIO serves as a key liaison between medical staff, clinical leadership, operational leaders, and IS&T, ensuring that technology solutions are aligned with clinical workflows, regulatory requirements, and organizational priorities. This role is critical to physician adoption, engagement, and satisfaction with clinical systems and plays a central role in governance, optimization, and innovation, including clinical decision support, documentation efficiency, and responsible use of AI.

Essential Functions

• Serves as the system‑wide physician executive leader for clinical informatics, accountable for the clinical effectiveness, safety, and usability of the EHR and related clinical systems.

• Partners closely with physician leadership, nursing, quality, safety, compliance, and operational leaders to support evidence‑based care, standardization, and regulatory compliance across MHS.

• Provides strategic oversight for Epic design, governance, optimization, and change management, ensuring alignment with clinician workflows and organizational goals.

• Leads and participates in clinical governance structures, including prioritization of enhancements, policy decisions, and clinical standards affecting health IT.

• Acts as a primary physician voice and advocate in major clinical transformation initiatives, including new technology adoption, workflow redesign, and system optimization.

• Sponsors and guides initiatives related to clinical decision support, documentation efficiency, patient safety, and clinician experience.

• Plays a key leadership role in AI strategy and governance, ensuring safe, ethical, and clinically appropriate use of advanced technologies in care delivery.

• Collaborates with Associate CMIOs, Clinical Informaticists, and IS&T leaders to ensure consistent system‑wide clinical informatics strategy and execution.

• Represents MHS in external partnerships with vendors, peer organizations, and industry groups as it relates to health informatics and digital health innovation.

Requirements:

• Unrestricted license to practice medicine in Washington state

• 5+ years of clinical practice experience with 5+ years of informatics leadership experience

• Current Board Certification in American Board of Medical Specialties recognized board

• Current Board Certification in American Board of Preventive Medicine – Clinical Informatics

• Epic experience preferred

Our Values

As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.

Why MultiCare?

• Belonging: We work to create a true sense of belonging for all our employees
• Mission-driven: We are dedicated to our mission of partnering for healing and a healthy future and the patients and communities we serve
• Market leadership: Washington state's largest community-based, locally governed health system
• Employee-centric: Named Forbes “America’s Best Employers by State” for several years running
• Technology: "Most Wired" health care system 15 years in a row
• Leading research: MultiCare Institute for Research & Innovation, 40 years of ground-breaking, clinical and health services research in our communities
• Lifestyle: Live and work in the Pacific Northwest - offering breathtaking water, mountains and forest at every turn

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. Pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.