Overview
The Clinical Informatics Director is a senior leadership position responsible for providing executive-level oversight and strategic direction for clinical informatics operations supporting the VA's Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM) initiative. This role serves as a key liaison between clinical operations, IT services, and executive leadership, ensuring alignment of informatics strategies with organizational goals across the VA healthcare system.
Responsibilities
Executive Leadership & Strategic Direction
- Provide executive-level leadership for clinical informatics programs supporting VHA operations
- Develop and execute strategic vision for informatics services across 170+ VA Medical Centers
- Ensure alignment of informatics initiatives with VA's EHRM objectives and organizational priorities
- Serve as primary point of contact for executive stakeholder engagement
- Drive organizational transformation through data-driven clinical decision support
Program Oversight & Management
- Oversee comprehensive clinical informatics service delivery across multiple workstreams
- Manage relationships with government leadership, clinical executives, and technical teams
- Ensure programmatic resources are effectively allocated across all areas of expertise
- Monitor and report on program performance, outcomes, and value delivery
- Maintain accountability for contract deliverables and service level agreements
Clinical Integration & Optimization
- Lead efforts to optimize clinical workflows using both Oracle Health (Millennium/Cerner) and VistA/CPRS platforms
- Drive clinical practice modernization through evidence-based informatics solutions
- Ensure clinical informatics strategies support High Reliability Organization (HRO) principles
- Support development of Learning Healthcare System (LHS) capabilities
- Facilitate integration of clinical decision support tools into provider workflows
SAFe® Agile Leadership
- Champion SAFe® Lean-Agile principles and practices across the organization
- Oversee quarterly Program Increment (PI) planning and execution
- Ensure continuous value delivery through 20 iterations annually
- Foster culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and operational excellence
- Support high-performing Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and teams
Stakeholder Management & Communication
- Maintain regular communication with VHA leadership, OHI executives, and clinical champions
- Facilitate collaboration between clinical, technical, and administrative stakeholders
- Present strategic updates and performance metrics to executive leadership
- Coordinate with VA Medical Center leadership across the enterprise
- Build and maintain trust-based relationships with key decision-makers
Quality, Risk & Compliance
- Ensure all informatics solutions meet industry standards and regulatory requirements
- Identify and mitigate enterprise-level risks to clinical informatics programs
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) and quality metrics
- Ensure compliance with VA policies, federal regulations, and security requirements
- Drive continuous quality improvement initiatives
Qualifications
- Master's Degreed in Healthcare Administration, Nursing Informatics, Health Informatics, Clinical Informatics, or related field
- Clinical degree highly preferred (MD, DO, RN, PharmD, or equivalent clinical credential)
- Alternative: Bachelor's degree with additional 5 years of relevant experience (20 years total)
- Active clinical license preferred (if applicable to background)
- Board Certification in Clinical Informatics strongly preferred
- SAFe® certification (SPC, SA, or equivalent) highly desirable
- Minimum 15 years of progressive healthcare and informatics experience (or 20 years with Bachelor's degree)
- Minimum 5 years in executive or senior director-level leadership roles
- Proven track record leading large-scale clinical informatics programs in complex healthcare organizations
- Extensive experience with Electronic Health Record implementations and optimization
- Demonstrated success managing multi-million dollar programs and portfolios
- Deep understanding of clinical workflows, processes, and care delivery models
- Expert knowledge of EHR systems, particularly Oracle Health (Millennium/Cerner) and/or VistA/CPRS
- Strong grasp of healthcare data analytics, clinical decision support, and population health management
- Comprehensive knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards (HL7, FHIR, etc.)
- Understanding of federal healthcare systems, particularly VA operations (preferred)
- Required: Deep knowledge and demonstrated application of SAFe® Lean-Agile principles at scale
- Experience leading Agile transformations in healthcare organizations
- Proven ability to drive value through empowered, high-performing Agile teams
- Strong understanding of continuous delivery, DevOps, and modern software development practices
This position is contingent upon program award. We are proactively recruiting qualified candidates in advance of contract award.
About CVP
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