Physician - Chief Health Informatics Officer

Department of Veterans Affairs

The Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) is a physician who provides leadership in planning, direction, and support of an integrated program for health care informatics at the Phoenix VA Health Care System, Phoenix, AZ. The CHIO has primary responsibility for ensuring clinical staff have the appropriate training and support to effectively utilize the Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) and other clinical applications that support healthcare delivery for patients and caregivers.

• VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package. VHA Physician Total Rewards. Major duties include, but not limited to: Serves as primary advisor to the Chief of Staff, Executive Leadership Team and other key officials on matters related to clinical informatics. Provides leadership and direction, working to improve how the medical center uses clinical informatics to deliver care and improve the efficiency and effectiveness of all clinical reminders. Guides staff in taking advantage of innovations in clinical informatics technology, including innovations that impact the delivery of clinical care. Emphasis is placed on how clinical informatics technologies help or impede the delivery of care; review of innovations to CPRS and VistA systems and developing processes for implementation; and exploration of new technologies or improvements to existing technologies to include implementation of evolving electronic health record management systems. Provides supervision as required, providing input to selection decisions, providing input into performance evaluations, and participating in conduct, disciplinary or awards actions as they relate to the technical CHIO duties. Assist in the development of strategic plans for clinical and administrative information systems and will foster relationships with internal staff as well as local and national information technology professionals in the VA Office of Information and Technology (OI&T) and the vendor community. May serve in a clinical role as appropriate to the selectee's clinical discipline and specialty area (i.e., 30%). Other duties as assigned. Recruitment/Relocation Incentives (Sign-on Bonus): May be approved for highly qualified applicants. Permanent Change of Station (Relocation Assistance): Not Authorized Pay: Competitive salary, annual performance bonus, regular salary increases Paid Time Off: 50-55 days of paid time off per year (26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year and possible 5 day paid absence for CME) Retirement: Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA Insurance: Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement) Licensure: 1 full and unrestricted license from any US State or territory CME: Possible $1,000-$2,500 per year reimbursement (must be full-time with board certification) Malpractice: Free liability protection with tail coverage provided Contract: No Physician Employment Contract and no significant restriction on moonlighting Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00am-4:30pm Telework: Ad-hoc, based on management approval.

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