Medical Director - CMIO Electronic Health Record

Southwest Medical  is a multi-specialty group of physicians, Nurse Practitioners, and Physician Assistants consisting of over 300 providers, 21 medical health centers including six urgent care clinics, four convenient care centers, two lifestyle centers catering to older adults, an outpatient surgery center, plus E-visits and online options via Now Clinic telemedicine technology.  SWM offers patients compassion, innovation, and quality care throughout southern Nevada. SWM is headquartered in the greater Las Vegas, NV area.
 
The Medical Director / Chief Medical Information Officer  is responsible for the clinical aspects of Electronic Health Records (EHR) adoption, integration into end-user workflow, and ongoing development; works collaboratively with the chief information officer and medical director of lean process improvement to ensure the needs of individual providers and staff are met; smartly incorporates EHR-based decision-support and evidence-based population health management into user workflow; understands build of components and contributes to process implementation and management. In addition, multiple clinic processes are thoughtfully integrated and both internal and external relationships pertaining to EHR development are maintained. This is a 20% clinical, 80% administrative position.
 
Primary Responsibilities:

Serves as a liaison between the medical staff, IT and senior leadership
Participates in the planning, selection, implementation and performance assessment of clinical IT with a lens toward a reliable and consistent patient experience, quality outcomes, and elimination of waste
Assists in the development of training programs for clinicians on clinical systems, and continuous improvement of such training programs
Participates actively in requirements definition, design, test and implementation tasks; provides ongoing review and development of alerts, care guideline order sets, and protocols
Works with the vendor on product development and implementation strategy
Develops strategic plans regarding information management and clinical IT
Reviews and makes recommendations regarding clinical practice workflows/processes as well as clinician computing devices
Serves as a change agent and advocate for best practices and process improvement; able to enlist and engage others; able to present opportunities, issues and recommendations to the support/implementation teams in such a way as to clarify desired outcome
Manages the expectations of end-users
Assertive but positive advocate for physicians when meeting with other stakeholders; serve as advocate for stakeholders when meeting with physicians/providers
Ensures that established operating standards, policies, regulatory requirements (Meaningful Use, PCMH, etc) and protocols are effectively implemented, continually evaluated, and as necessary, modified to ensure the delivery of high-quality patient care while maintaining cost-effective operations
Continuously alert for new and innovative approaches that can be developed for clinical interaction with EHR

Required Qualifications:

Must have an unrestricted Medical License
Must be Board Certified In Internal Medicine or Family Medicine
Able to understand and navigate the organization's culture; able to think both strategically and tactically; be willing to apply lean methodology to clinical EMR workflows; respected by peers; maintains competency and enhances professional growth and development through continuing education, conferences and seminars and attends training with regard to clinical IT as requested/needed; general understanding of disparate systems and integration/information flow
Ability to form strong relationships with executive leadership, IT and medical staff
Strong communication skills, especially the ability to deliver complex messages between the medical staff and IT
Credibility among the medical staff as an active provider. Effective project and change management skills
Belief in and enthusiasm for use of IT systems to improve the delivery of care. Strong leadership skills. Effective listening and negotiating skills. Patience
Proficient in the use and design of electronic medical records systems and other systems (such as PACS)
Seven Years Clinical experience and 3 years leadership experience.
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UnitedHealth Group is a drug-free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.
 
Job Keywords: Physician, MD, Clinical,  Manager ,IT, Electronic Health Records, Management, Las Vegas, NV, Nevada