Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer

The Role

The Vice President, Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is Providence’s senior physician informatics executive, accountable for the full spectrum of physician and Advanced Practice Clinician (APC) informatics across the enterprise.

This role owns the physician experience with clinical technology end‑to‑end—from change management and major implementations to onboarding, education, and coaching; from relational support with practicing physicians and APCs to deep partnership with physician leaders and executive stakeholders.

The VP, CMIO provides direct influence and partnered leadership over EHR and clinical technology strategy, shaping how tools such as clinical decision support, order sets, documentation workflows, and emerging technologies—including AI‑enabled capabilities—are designed, governed, and used to drive outcomes.

This is a high‑trust, high‑influence role that blends strategic leadership with hands‑on engagement, requiring strong clinical credibility, systems thinking, and exceptional relationship leadership.

Core Accountabilities

Physician & APC Informatics Leadership

• Accountable for physician and APC informatics strategy, execution, and outcomes across the enterprise.
• Lead and develop a team of CMIOs with defined areas of focus (e.g., geography, specialty).
• Serve as the senior physician voice for clinical technology decisions, ensuring alignment with real‑world care delivery and specialty‑specific needs.
• Build deep, durable relationships with physicians, APCs, physician leaders, and medical staff governance bodies.

• Own the Physician Success lifecycle: onboarding, education, optimization, coaching, and ongoing support.
• Lead physician‑centered change management for major clinical technology initiatives, ensuring adoption that is effective, sustainable, and humane.
• Champion burden‑reduction strategies that measurably improve clinician efficiency, satisfaction, and experience in practice.

• Partner closely with IS, Application, and Clinical Informatics leadership to shape physician‑facing technology strategy.
• Provide clinical direction for:
• Clinical decision support
• Order sets and clinical content
• Physician/APC workflow modernization, including ambient and AI‑enabled tools
• Informatics governance
• Ensure technology is used intentionally to advance quality, safety, experience, equity, and clinical outcomes.

• Translate clinical, operational, and strategic goals into informatics priorities and measurable results.
• Leverage data and clinician feedback to guide optimization and continuous improvement.
• Ensure informatics investments deliver measurable value for patients, caregivers, and the organization.

• Serve as a member of the Clinical Informatics executive leadership team, helping shape culture, vision, and service delivery model.
• Establish and steward physician informatics governance balancing enterprise standards with local flexibility.
• Partner in a dyad model with CNIO and collaborate with clinical, operational, quality, and digital leaders.

• Lead and mentor CMIOs, physician informaticists, and physician leadership roles across direct and matrixed structures.
• Partner closely with:
• Chief Medical Officer and physician executive leadership
• IS executive leadership and application teams
• Quality, Safety, and operational leaders

Education

• MD or DO with active or eligible medical licensure

• Minimum of 10 years of frontline clinical experience with deep understanding of physician and APC workflows
• Minimum of 10 years leading clinical informatics, health IT, or digital transformation initiatives at scale
• Proven success in physician engagement, change management, and enterprise influence

• Clinical Informatics board certification or equivalent experience
• Experience with large‑scale EHR platforms (e.g., Epic) in complex health systems
• Demonstrated leadership in clinical decision support, workflow optimization, and technology‑enabled care models

• Demonstrated strategic, operational, and financial acumen
• Proven ability to lead transformation and manage complexity in highly matrixed environments
• Excellent communication and listening skills with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders
• Collaborative, problem‑solving approach balancing inclusiveness with timely execution
• Ability to lead teams through change while maintaining focus on mission and performance

• The VP, CMIO sits at the intersection of care delivery, technology, and trust.
• By ensuring our tools truly serve clinicians and our clinicians remain at the center of our digital strategy this role directly advances Providence’s mission to care for all while restoring meaning and sustainability to the practice of medicine.

At Providence we believe in the importance of human connection and the impact of in-person collaboration towards team cohesion and caregiver engagement. Further, we want our leaders to live in or near the communities we serve. Therefore, leaders applying for this role will be required to work a hybrid schedule, which consists of three days onsite, two days remote and live within a reasonable commuting distance to the ministry or service area they support and lead.

About Providence

At Providence, our strength lies in Our Promise of “Know me, care for me, ease my way.” Working at our family of organizations means that regardless of your role, we’ll walk alongside you in your career, supporting you so you can support others. We provide best-in-class benefits and we foster an inclusive workplace where diversity is valued, and everyone is essential, heard and respected. Together, our 120,000 caregivers (all employees) serve in over 50 hospitals, over 1,000 clinics and a full range of health and social services across Alaska, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas and Washington. As a comprehensive health care organization, we are serving more people, advancing best practices and continuing our more than 100-year tradition of serving the poor and vulnerable.

Posted are the minimum and the maximum wage rates on the wage range for this position. The successful candidate's placement on the wage range for this position will be determined based upon relevant job experience and other applicable factors. These amounts are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Providence offers a comprehensive benefits package including a retirement 401(k) Savings Plan with employer matching, health care benefits (medical, dental, vision), life insurance, disability insurance, time off benefits (paid parental leave, vacations, holidays, health issues), voluntary benefits, well-being resources and much more. Learn more at providence.jobs/benefits.

Applicants in the Unincorporated County of Los Angeles: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Unincorporated Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.

Requsition ID: 432445

Company: Providence Jobs

Job Category: Clinical Informatics

Job Function: Clinical Support

Job Schedule: Full time

Job Shift: Day

Career Track: Leadership

Department: 4015 SS IS MANAGEMENT SS 1

Address: WA Renton 1801 Lind Ave SW

Work Location: Providence Valley Office Park-Renton

Workplace Type: On-site

Pay Range: $0 - $0

The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.