Medical Informatics Associate Vice President Surgical Services

Department:

12240 Enterprise Corporate - Enterprise Medical Informatics

Status:

Part time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

24

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

Advocate Health is seeking a Surgical Informatics Officer - Associate Vice President to provide clinical informatics leadership across perioperative and procedural services. This physician leader will partner with surgeons, anesthesiologists, nursing, operations, and IT to optimize Epic‑enabled surgical workflows, enhance quality and safety, and drive enterprise‑wide standardization across the surgical continuum.

This role is designed as a 0.6 FTE physician leadership position, enabling continued clinical practice while providing meaningful informatics leadership impact across the enterprise.

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Pay Range

$151.65 - $242.65

Major Responsibilities:

• Evaluates, analyzes and ensures documentation of assigned function workflows across various specialties. Identifies opportunities for reengineering to support aims and ensure that optimized, reengineered workflows are technologically enabled. Leads efficient design, builds and optimizes documentation, ordering and decision support tools within the electronic medical record system.
• Ensures physician training and support is aligned to promote the goal of efficient use of technology in the delivery of high quality patient care. Dedicates time to each facility to learn complexities as well as develop collaborative relationships with all physicians throughout the Advocate Aurora Health system.
• Leads assigned function Electronic Medical Record (EMR) governance across Advocate Aurora Health. Serves as the medical informatics leader for the assigned function group.
• Provides clinical and IT leadership in the areas of planning, development, preparation and implementation of strategic and tactical clinical information systems. Develops empathy and understanding of physician needs and builds relationships with physicians to gain support of IT initiatives. Collaborates closely with other clinicians.
• Leads design of clinical pathway models with clinical leadership, and assists in modification of these models to gain maximum efficacy and support for patient care and research protocols. Works in collaboration with various stakeholders.
• Reviews medical informatics trends, experiences and approaches, develops technical and application implementation strategies and assists in the development of strategic plans for clinical information systems. Uses data to proactively monitor, revise and automate best practices to improve quality and patient safety.
• Evaluates the impact of information technology on clinical processes and identifies areas to promote use of technology in creating efficiencies for clinicians and improving quality of care. Leads and facilitates clinician advisory groups in the design of clinical systems to support excellence in patient care and research.
• Highly responsive to user needs, including training, to assure wide spread acceptance and provider use of the clinical systems. Collaborates with physician champions across Advocate Aurora Health to synthesize feedback from frontline physicians and providers and translate them into actionable initiatives.
• Serves as a key conduit of communication with physicians relating to informatics and information systems. Serves as an advisor to other project managers with non-clinical experience

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• MD or DO degree with board certification in an American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) relevant clinical specialty
• ACLS/BLS certified; trauma response training preferred.

Education Required:

• Doctorate Degree in Medicine.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 10 years of experience in direct health IT deployment and optimization.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• High level of clinical knowledge, analytical ability, critical decision making skills and an extensive knowledge of healthcare issues, with a focus on the science of integrating healthcare, technology, and clinical data.
• Excellent interpersonal, presentation, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of clinical work flow in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Ability to develop flexible, transferable models for pathways of care.
• Strong leadership, organization, and collaborative management skills.
• Knowledge of major trends in healthcare and managed care., Familiar with point of care products and medical informatics trends and tools.
• Knowledgeable in the areas of management and systems improvement concepts.
• Skilled in implementing organizational strategies to improve healthcare delivery.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Generally exposed to a normal office environment.
• Position requires travel, therefore may be exposed to weather and road conditions.
• Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program

About Advocate Health

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.

Provides effective leadership and direction to support development, implementation, optimization, and use of assigned function electronic medical record and more broadly, Advocate Health portfolio of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Serves as key steward in aims of improving quality, access, cost, physician experience and patient experience as related to use of ICT at Advocate Health. Collaborates with multi-disciplinary clinical and technical teams in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of clinical information systems and assumes responsibility for assigned function clinical system design, implementation, and optimization