GENERAL SUMMARY: The Associate Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (ACNIO) is an enterprise nursing informatics leadership role that supports the vision, strategy, and execution of an integrated clinical informatics model that leverages information and analytical sciences to advance outcomes-driven nursing practice. Reporting to the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO), the ACNIO partners closely with nursing, clinical informatics, IT, analytics, and quality leaders to operationalize informatics strategies across the health system.
The ACNIO collaborates with nursing leaders, clinical informatics partners, quality leadership, and IT teams to ensure nursing practice is accurately represented in clinical systems, and that data and analytics are embedded into daily clinical and operational decision-making.
This leader partners with the Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO), analytics leadership, and clinical stakeholders to operationalize nursing analytics strategies that support quality, safety, operational efficiency, and strategic performance.
PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: - Nursing Informatics Strategy Execution & Operational Leadership
- Supports the CNIO in executing the enterprise nursing informatics strategy aligned with organizational, nursing, quality, and IT priorities.
- Translates strategic informatics priorities into operational plans, initiatives, and measurable outcomes.
- Identifies opportunities for innovation in nursing workflows, documentation and decision support using emerging technologies, analytics, and digital tools.
- Identifying and evaluating industry's best practices
- Clinical Systems, EHR Optimization, and Workflow Enablement
- Provides leadership for nursing informatics contributions to EHR design, build, optimization, and sustainment efforts.
- Ensures the EHR and related clinical systems accurately reflect evidence-based nursing practice, regulatory requirements, and professional standards.
- Analytics and Data Enablement
- Serves as a liaison between nursing leadership, clinical informatics, and analytics teams to prioritize analytic requests and align resources.
- Guides and mentors nursing informatics and clinical informatics staff in developing analytic fluency and effective use of data in practice.
- Collaborates with the CNIO, CMIO partners, and analytics teams to embed data and analytics into nursing practice and operational workflows.
- Ensures nursing leaders and frontline clinicians have access to timely, accurate, and actionable data to support decision-making and performance improvement.
- Translates organizational and nursing priorities into actionable analytic requirements, ensuring alignment with approved data sources, governance standards, and regulatory expectations.
- Oversees the development and use of nursing-focused dashboards, reports, and scorecards that monitor key performance indicators (KPIs), operational metrics, quality outcomes, and clinician experience.
- Ensures analytics solutions leverage enterprise BI tools and visualization platforms (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) in alignment with organizational standards.
- Partners with analytics teams to ensure data visualizations and reporting solutions effectively communicate insights using clear data storytelling principles.
- Ensures nursing analytics and reporting adhere to enterprise data governance, data integrity, and compliance standards.
- Collaborates with data governance and analytics partners to validate data definitions, sources, and methodologies used in nursing analytics. Promotes consistent documentation, data capture, and data quality practices that enable reliable analytics.
- Clinical Informatics Programs & Clinician Engagement •
- Provides leadership and oversight for nursing and clinical informatics programs, including clinical informatics liaisons and governance structures.
- Engages nursing leaders and frontline clinicians to gather input, prioritize needs, and support adoption of informatics solutions.
- Quality, Safety, and Regulatory Support
- Integrates quality improvement, patient safety, and regulatory requirements into nursing informatics initiatives.
- Partners with quality and compliance leaders to ensure regulatory and legal requirements are met within the EHR and related systems. • Supports safe, efficient documentation practices that contribute to quality outcomes and clinician satisfaction.
- Collaboration, Leadership, and Professional Practice
- Collaborates with nursing executives, IT leadership, clinical informatics partners, and operational leaders across the system.
- Represents nursing informatics perspectives in system initiatives, projects, and committees as delegated by the CNIO.
- Mentors and develop nursing informatics leaders and team members.
- Demonstrates strong change in leadership, critical thinking, and a commitment to continuous improvement.
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED: - Master's degree in nursing, Nursing Informatics, or related field required.
- Doctoral degree preferred.
- Five to seven (5-7) years of progressively responsible nursing, clinical informatics, or operational leadership experience.
- Experience in data analytics, reporting or business intelligence (typically 0-2 years).
- Experience in acute and/or ambulatory care environments preferred.
