Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)- FT-Days- Admin

DHR Health - US:TX:Edinburg - Days

Summary:

FLSA STATUS:ExemptNon-Exempt

MISSION STATEMENT:

Our Mission is to improve the well-being of those we serve with a commitment to excellence: every patient, every encounter, every time.

VISION:

Our Vision is to create a world-class health system to advance medicine and increase access for the communities we serve by empowering caregivers to heal through compassion, knowledge, innovation, integrated care and excellence.

POSITION SUMMARY:

The CMIO is responsible for providing leadership for physician education, acceptance, and usage of computerized technologies, particularly electronic medical records, to improve patient care. The CMIO will act as liaison between clinicians, ancillary departments and information systems to align IS clinical standards, workflow and policies and procedures. This position will also act as a change agent working with hospital leaders and clinicians to adopt new processes, technologies and models of care. This position will help leverage Doctors Hospital at Renaissance investment in information technology to improve patient safety, quality of care, clinical outcomes, and cost of care. Important to this effort is the ability to successfully partner with the Information Technology (IT) Services leadership team and to develop effective communication with physicians and key clinical stakeholders regarding the development of the short term and long term vision of full integration of the clinical information system solution across the enterprise, linking ambulatory EMR, research and clinical areas, and deployment of Health Information Exchange along with attesting for Meaningful Use.

POSITION EDUCATION/ QUALIFICATIONS

• Current TX licensed MD with extensive and current inpatient management experience.
  
• A medical degree (MD or DO), Board Certification in a medical or surgical specialty.
  
• An advanced degree in medical informatics, or related fields (including science or engineering) or completion of a fellowship in medical informatics is highly desirable.
  
• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
  
• Some evening or weekend work will be required.
  

Bilingual - English/Spanish.

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JOB KNOWLEDGE/EXPERIENCE:

• Good written and verbal communication skills required.
  
• Some evening or weekend work will be required.
  
• Bilingual - English/Spanish.
  
• Must demonstrate proficiency in Electronic Health Record post hire by attending required training and passing proficiency test.
  
• Knowledge of State, Federal, and JCAHO regulations.
  

Responsibilities:

POSITION RESPONSIBILITES:

• Promotes the facility mission, vision and values by effectively communicating them to others. Considers mission, vision and values in developing services, standards and practices.
  
• Work collaboratively with CIO and all IT membership to develop and vet short term and long term goals within the overall IT strategic plan that leverage technology as an enabler of institutional goals.
  
• Interacts with physicians and other clinicians extensively in topic areas which include, but is not limited to: mobile devices, remote access methods, electronic documentation, health information exchange, telemedicine, telehealth, and more.
  
• Explore new and emerging technologies (RTLS, RFID, Mobile computing, Social Networking, PHRs, etc) and develop strategies to best utilize these technology advances in clinical care.
  
• Provide leadership for the development and use of a robust clinical-computing platform that addresses and is responsive to evolving faculty and staff needs.
  
• Serves as �voice of the customer†and primary physician liaison between medical staff, Physician Network providers, and administration on all clinical IT issues.
  
• Develops standards and policies in medical terminology and application to increase efficiency in patient care.
  
• Actively advocates for and supports physician perspectives and requirements for clinical IT design and function with the organization departments, staff and administration and likewise advocates for and supports administrative and organizational IT priorities, decisions, and concerns with the medical staff members, both formally and informally.
  
• Leads development of clinical "rules" supporting patient care and protocol research, as well as, the design of clinical system features supporting protocol management and the use of the system to leverage the clinicians' time and maximize communication with affiliates and referring physicians.
  
• Leads cultural change across the medical community to adopt IT solutions to the fullest, including influencing physicians to change the way they practice medicine by leveraging data and IT.
  
• Leads design of clinical pathway models with physician, nursing and administrative leadership, and will assist in modification of these models to gain maximum efficacy and support for patient care protocols.
  
• Provides direction and support to other physicians undertaking informatics functions including training and clinical decision support.
  
• Develops empathy and understanding of physician needs and builds relationships with physicians to gain support of IT initiatives. Is highly responsive to users� needs, including training, to assure widespread acceptance and provider use of the clinical systems.
  
• Provide counsel to DHR leadership and client departments in areas of expertise and responsibility.
  

Other duties as assigned.

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L INES OF REPSONSIBILITES:

(Chain-of-command)

1. Chief Executive Officer

Other information:

CUSTOMER SERVICE:

Provide excellent customer service to all DHR customers. All employees are required to attend the DHR C.A.R.E.S program which outlines the Customer Service Principals including: Commitment, Accountability, Respect, Excellence and Service.

AGE SPECIFIC:

Employees must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in his/her assigned unit. The individual must demonstrate knowledge of principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirement relative to his or her age.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: (ADA) :

A.

Essential Duties : Indicated by bold print within performance standards, preceding individual numbered criteria.

The following table provides physical requirements that will be associated with, but not limited to, this position:

Light/moderate lifting up to 20 lbs, from the floor to shoulder height.

Yes

Kneeling

Yes

Must be able to assist other employees with lifting more than 20 lbs.

Yes

Walking

Yes

Light/moderate carrying up to 20 lbs.

Yes

Standing/Squatting

Yes

Straight pulling

Yes

Sitting

Yes

Pulling hand over hand

Yes

Pushing

Yes

Repeated bending

Yes

Stooping/Bending

Yes

Reaching above shoulder

Yes

Climbing Stairs

Yes

Simple grasping

Yes

Climbing Ladders

No

Dual simultaneous grasping

Yes

Depth Perceptions needed

Yes

Ability to see

Yes

Identify Colors

Yes

Operating office equipment

Yes

Twisting

Yes

Operating mechanical equipment

Yes

Crawling

No

Ability to read and write

Yes

Ability to Count

Yes

Ability to hear verbal communication without aid

Yes

Operating Personal Vehicle

Yes

Ability to comprehend written/verbal communication

Yes

Other: Ability to deal with stress

Yes

OSHA Category

III

B.

Working Conditions The individual spends over 95% of his/her time in an air-conditioned environment with varying exposures to noise. There is protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes. The position does have low exposure to malodorous, infectious body fluids from patients and some minimal exposure to noxious smells from cleansing agents.

C.

Occupational Exposure: This position has minimal to no exposure to blood, body fluids, or tissues and is an OSHA Category III (although situations can be imagined or hypothesized under which anyone, anywhere, might encounter potential exposure to body fluids). Person who performs these duties are not called upon as part of their employment to perform or assist in emergency medical care or first aid or to be potentially exposed in some other way.

D.

Aptitudes : HIGH 1 2 3 4 5 6 LOW

Intelligence: General learning ability: The ability to “catch on†or understand instructions and underlying principles. Ability to reason and make judgments. 3

Verbal: Ability to understand meanings of words and ideas associated with them, and to use them effectively. To comprehend language, to understand relationships between words, and to understand meanings of whole sentences and paragraphs. To present information or ideas clearly. 3

Numerical: Ability to perform arithmetic operations quickly and accurately. 2

Spatial: Ability to comprehend forms in space and understands relationships of plane and solid objects. Frequently described as the ability to “visualize†objects or two or three dimensions, or to think visually of geometric forms. 2

Form Perception: Ability to perceive pertinent details and objects or in pictorial or graphic material to make visual comparisons and discriminations and see slight differences in shapes and shadings of figures and widths and lengths of lines. 3

Clerical Perception: Ability to receive pertinent details and verbal or tabular material. To observe differences in copy, to proofread words and numbers, and to avoid perceptual errors in arithmetic computation. 2

Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate eyes and hands to fingers rapidly and accurately in making precise movements with speed. Ability to make a movement response accurately and quickly. 3

Finger Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with fingers in placing and turning motions. 3

Manual Dexterity: Ability to move hands easily and skillfully. To work with hands in placing and turning motions. 3

Eye-Hand-Foot Coordination: Ability to move the hand and foot coordinately with each other in accordance with visual stimuli. 3

Color Discrimination: Ability to perceive and respond to similarities or differences in colors, shapes, or other values of the same or different color. To identify a particular color, or to recognize harmonious or contrasting color combinations, or to match color adequately. 3

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