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The Chief Medical Informatics Officer (CMIO) is a senior physician executive responsible for shaping and advancing clinical informatics and digital health across the Guthrie enterprise. This role exists to ensure that clinical information systems and emerging digital tools meaningfully improve patient care, support clinicians in their work, and strengthen operational and population health performance.

The CMIO reports directly to the EVP, President of the Guthrie Provider Enterprise with dotted-line reporting to the SVP, Chief Digital Officer. Working closely with the Chief Clinical Officer and other clinical and operational leaders, the CMIO serves as the primary physician voice for health information technology. In this capacity, the CMIO ensures that the Epic EMR along with the broader clinical application ecosystem are thoughtfully designed, well-governed, effectively adopted, and aligned with Guthrie's mission to deliver excellent patient care.
 

This is an enterprise leadership role with broad reach across inpatient, ambulatory, emergency, and virtual care settings. The CMIO leads efforts to standardize and optimize clinical informatics while also advancing innovation, data use, automation, and emerging technologies-including AI-where they can safely and practically improve quality, access, efficiency, and clinician wellbeing.
 

Key Responsibilities

Clinical Informatics & EHR Leadership
    Serve as Guthrie's senior physician leader for the Epic electronic medical record, clinical AI tools and other clinical information systems, ensuring systems are clinically relevant, efficient, and aligned with best practices.
    Lead physician engagement and governance for Epic optimization, upgrades, workflows, clinical decision support, order sets, and documentation tools.
    Partner with clinical leaders to reduce administrative burden, improve usability, and enhance provider satisfaction through technology.
    Champion standardization of clinical workflows across the enterprise while allowing appropriate specialty-specific flexibility.

Digital Strategy, Innovation & AI in Healthcare
    Collaborate closely with the Chief Digital Officer to advance Guthrie's digital health roadmap, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, predictive analytics, automation, and emerging technologies.
    Evaluate, prioritize, and guide the clinical adoption of AI-enabled tools in areas such as decision support, population health, documentation, quality and safety.
    Foster responsible, ethical, and clinically appropriate use of AI, including governance, validation, clinician trust, and regulatory compliance.

Quality, Safety & Regulatory Support
    Ensure clinical information systems support patient safety, evidence-based care, regulatory compliance, and quality reporting.
    Partner with Quality, Compliance, and Medical Staff leadership to support CMS, Joint Commission, and other regulatory requirements through effective system design and data integrity.

Physician Engagement & Change Management
    Serve as a visible, credible physician leader and advocate for clinicians in technology-related initiatives.
    Lead communication, education, and adoption strategies for new systems, enhancements, and digital tools.
    Collaborate with Medical Staff leadership, department chairs, and service line leaders to align technology with clinical and operational priorities.

Data, Analytics & Clinical Insight
    Partner with the CDO, analytics, and data teams to ensure clinicians have actionable, reliable, and timely data to support clinical and operational decision-making.
    Promote the use of dashboards, registries, and analytics tools to support population health, value-based care, and performance improvement.

Governance & Collaboration
    Participate in enterprise IT, digital, and clinical governance structures.
    Collaborate with Information Services, Nursing Informatics, Quality, Operations, and Finance leaders to ensure alignment across initiatives.
    Represent Guthrie in regional, national, and industry forums related to clinical informatics, Epic, and digital health.

Education & Licensure
    Doctor of Medicine (MD) or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (DO) required. 
    Advanced degree in Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or related field preferred but not required. 
    Ability to obtain and maintain appropriate medical licensure to practice within Guthrie's service region. 
Core Attributes
    Physician-first mindset with a passion for improving clinician experience and patient care through technology. 
    High integrity, humility, and commitment to Guthrie's mission and values. 
    Politically astute, collaborative, and comfortable leading in a highly matrixed organization. 
    Process-oriented, innovative, and results-driven. 
    Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, and cultural humility.