FTE:1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Mon-Fri

The Pay Scale is $345,010 to $466,773

Position Summary
The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) provides executive-level physician leadership for health informatics strategy across MultiCare Health System. The CMIO is accountable for ensuring that clinical information systems-particularly the electronic health record (EHR)-enhance patient care, safety, quality, and clinician experience.
The CMIO serves as a key liaison between medical staff, clinical leadership, operational leaders, and IS&T, ensuring that technology solutions are aligned with clinical workflows, regulatory requirements, and organizational priorities. This role is critical to physician adoption, engagement, and satisfaction with clinical systems and plays a central role in governance, optimization, and innovation, including clinical decision support, documentation efficiency, and responsible use of AI.

Essential Functions

• Serves as the system-wide physician executive leader for clinical informatics, accountable for the clinical effectiveness, safety, and usability of the EHR and related clinical systems.
• Partners closely with physician leadership, nursing, quality, safety, compliance, and operational leaders to support evidence-based care, standardization, and regulatory compliance across MHS.
• Provides strategic oversight for Epic design, governance, optimization, and change management, ensuring alignment with clinician workflows and organizational goals.
• Leads and participates in clinical governance structures, including prioritization of enhancements, policy decisions, and clinical standards affecting health IT.
• Acts as a primary physician voice and advocate in major clinical transformation initiatives, including new technology adoption, workflow redesign, and system optimization.
• Sponsors and guides initiatives related to clinical decision support, documentation efficiency, patient safety, and clinician experience.
• Plays a key leadership role in AI strategy and governance, ensuring safe, ethical, and clinically appropriate use of advanced technologies in care delivery.
• Collaborates with Associate CMIOs, Clinical Informaticists, and IS&T leaders to ensure consistent system-wide clinical informatics strategy and execution.
• Represents MHS in external partnerships with vendors, peer organizations, and industry groups as it relates to health informatics and digital health innovation.

Requirements:

• Unrestricted license to practice medicine in Washington state
• 5+ years of clinical practice experience with 5+ years of informatics leadership experience
• Current Board Certification in American Board of Medical Specialties recognized board
• Current Board Certification in American Board of Preventive Medicine - Clinical Informatics
• Epic experience preferred

Pay and Benefit Expectations
We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. Pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant's years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.