UCHealth · 2 days ago
Chief Informatics and Outcomes Officer
Aurora, CO
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$458K/yr - $686K/yr
10+ years expUCHealth is a healthcare organization focused on improving lives through learning, healing, and discovery. They are seeking a Chief Informatics and Outcomes Officer who will drive informatics to enhance quality outcomes across their system of care by aligning data systems and clinical intelligence.
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Responsibilities
Develop and execute an integrated quality, outcomes and informatics strategy to achieve Vizient top 10 clinical quality and accountability performance across UCHealth
Partner with the appropriate business and IT leaders to strengthen Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other IT platform governance, prioritizing optimizations that improve Vizient outcomes, throughput, efficiency, and safety
Collaborate with operational intelligence and IT analytics teams to create a clinical intelligence platform that unifies EHR data, third-party data, and other sources into a single structure aligned with Vizient measures
Establish an agile Clinical Decision Support (CDS) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) framework targeting UCHealth's Vizient gaps, embedding and iteratively refining EHR alerts to close care deficiencies
Design clinician-facing dashboards that surface actionable opportunities and care gaps at the point of care
Create provider dashboards that display performance on Vizient quality domains and trigger positive and negative exception notifications
Implement a program to review and optimize all EHR clinical content (order sets, CDS, documentation, pathways, etc.) to promote evidence-based practice and reduce alert fatigue and practice variation
Continuously enhance the clinician experience with IT by implementing changes that increase efficiency and reduce documentation burden
Partner with Virtual Health Center (VHC) leadership to create a quality surveillance and operational command center that tracks for latent conditions, leading indicators, care gaps, and facilitates real-time interventions
Strengthen UCHealth's safety culture by partnering with regional CMOs, CQOs, and CNOs to embed quality and safety methodology and high-reliability practices into clinical care
Design clinical informatics strategy to integrate provider and nursing expertise, emphasizing improved patient outcomes, safety, and operational throughput
Provides guidance for current and long-range objectives and strategically plans for UCHealth's future EHR functionality, as well as other supporting clinical systems
Working collaboratively with IT, medical leadership, and nursing leadership, drives optimization of the EHR and other clinical systems
Increases provider and care team satisfaction with IT systems
Reduces EHR related fatigue and promotes clinician wellness with IT systems
Assesses and provides recommendations for emerging IT technologies and applications
Provides support in the design of clinical and enterprise data warehouse strategies to support analytics, quality reporting, clinical registries, and AI enablement
Provides expertise in support of provider workflow and thinking at the interface of patient care and information management
Represents the clinical staff for all aspects of IT
Appointment to the UCHealth medical staff and 20% commitment to clinical care required
Qualification
Required
MD, DO or BSN eligible for licensure in Colorado
Board certified in Clinical Informatics (ABPM) and in their clinical specialty
Minimum of ten years of progressive leadership in the domains of quality and health IT
Masters in healthcare management (MBA, MHA, DNP, PhD) or equivalent training required
Obtained Epic Physician Builder, Epic Clinical Content Builder or Epic Clinical Builder certification
Demonstrates high integrity, fortitude, creativity and positive approach to problem solving
High level of demonstrated expertise in change management
Analytical and strategic problem-solving capabilities
Experience in leading high-performing, cross-functional teams; designing and implementing processes for strong and effective clinical and practice management operations
Preferred
Executive level experience strongly preferred
Benefits
Performance bonus: UCHealth offers an Annual Performance Bonus to recognize employee contributions to our success in quality, patient experience, organizational growth, and financial goals.
Performance-based pay increase: The Annual Merit Pay Increase recognizes work performance that meets or consistently exceeds performance standards documented through UCHealth's established evaluation process and accounts for increased experience, skills and cost of living.
Market reviews: All UCHealth positions are reviewed annually to ensure UCHealth base pay aligns with market standards. Base pay rates are adjusted as needed to stay market competitive.
Medical, dental and vision coverage.
Access to 24/7 mental health and well-being support for employees and dependents.
Discounted gym memberships and fitness resources.
Free Care.com membership.
Voluntary benefits such as accident insurance, critical illness insurance, group legal plan, identity theft protection, pet insurance, auto and home insurance, and employee discount programs.
Time away from work: Paid time off (PTO), paid family and medical leave (inclusive of Colorado FAMLI), leaves of absence.
New employees receive an initial PTO load with first paycheck.
Employer-provided basic life and accidental death and dismemberment coverage with buy-up coverage options.
Employer-provided short-term disability and long-term disability with a buy-up coverage option.
403(b) plan with employer matching contribution.
Additional 457(b) plan may be available.
Flexible spending accounts for health care and dependent day care; health savings account available when enrolled in high-deductible (HD) medical plan.
UCHealth provides access to academic degrees and certificate programs to promote professional and personal growth.
Up to 100% of tuition, books and fees paid for by UCHealth for specific educational degrees.
Other programs may qualify for up to $10,000/year pre-paid by UCHealth or up to $5,250/year in the form of tuition reimbursement.
Access to LinkedIn Learning, which offers thousands of virtual courses and seminars, and internal professional development opportunities.
Employees have access to free assistance navigating the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program and submitting their federal student loans for forgiveness.
Company
UCHealth
UCHealth is a locally owned, private, not-for profit organization with a strong vision: to provide world-class
10001+ employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$0.15M2022-10-18Grant
2014-02-11Grant· $0.15M
Leadership Team
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Elizabeth B. Concordia
President & CEO
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Kevin Unger
President/CEO
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