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In 1971, Yale University established Yale Health to provide health services to its facility, staff and students through a multidisciplinary health maintenance organization located on campus. Yale Health members include students, staff, faculty and their families who come from every state in the country and almost every country in the world. With over 50 years of service to the Yale community, our facility at 55 Lock Street, is where our members receive most of their care from our 150+ providers. It is a 144,000 square foot medical facility with over 90 exam rooms, an Acute Care Department, a 15-bed inpatient facility with two negative pressure rooms, a diagnostic imaging suite including MR and CT scan, x-ray and ultrasound and a full-service retail pharmacy.

Yale Health is seeking an experienced, board-certified physician with formal training or experience in clinical informatics to serve in a hybrid Physician Informaticist role. This 1.0 FTE position consists of 0.5 FTE clinical practice in one of Yale Health's primary care service lines (Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, OB/GYN, or Pediatrics) and 0.5 FTE dedicated to clinical informatics leadership under the direction of the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Reporting to the Chief Medical Information Officer (0.5 FTE Informatics) and respective Service Line Chief (0.5 FTE Informatics), the Physician Informaticist serves as a physician informatics leader within Yale Health, supplementing the CMIO, and functions as Yale Health's flagship Epic Physician Builder. The role provides physician-level informatics leadership for Epic optimization, clinical decision support, workflow improvement, AI-enabled clinical tools, and digital health initiatives across all Yale Health service lines. The Physician Informaticist serves as the CMIO's primary physician partner in Clinical Informatics and is expected to deputize for the CMIO in select governance, project, and decision-making forums when appropriate.

Beyond Yale Health, the Physician Informaticist will represent Yale Health in the broader Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), and Yale Medicine medical communities and Medical Information Officer (MIO) team, ensuring Yale Health's priorities are reflected in enterprise informatics, AI, and digital health strategy.

This position offers protected informatics time, active clinical practice, clinical faculty appointment eligibility, and the opportunity to shape EHR and digital tools used by every Yale Health provider serving more than 50,000 members. The role is optimal for a physician who has completed an ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowship and/or holds ABPM board certification in Clinical Informatics, with demonstrated experience leading physician-facing informatics initiatives.

Schedule: Full-time – 37.5 hours. Occasional evenings, weekends, holidays/recess and on-call coverage as defined by the assigned clinical service line. Hybrid informatics work permitted consistent with Yale Health policy and operational needs.

Required Skills and Abilities:

• Graduation from an accredited allopathic or osteopathic medical school. Board certification in the assigned clinical specialty
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, OB/GYN, or Pediatrics.
• Completion of an ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowship and/or board certification in Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) or American Board of Pathology, or meaningful demonstrated informatics experience
• Demonstrated proficiency with Epic in an active clinical role, including participation in physician-facing Epic optimization or build initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience with clinical informatics initiatives, EHR optimization, workflow design, or clinical decision support development.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, including experience working effectively across multiple reporting relationships and with senior clinical and administrative leaders.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor physicians and clinical staff.

Principal Responsibilities:

• Defines and documents patients' clinical problems and reaches proper diagnoses; plans and executes therapy in a timely manner; keeps records of care; provides consultation and teaching for midlevel clinicians.
• Conducts rounds and signs out patients in a timely, thorough manner and answers calls and pages promptly.
• Participates in hospital coverage, including: weekday and weekend on-call rotations, hospital rounds, overnight phone calls.
• Sees patients in Acute Care in rotation.
• May perform other duties as assigned.