About the company
Our partner is looking for a Clinical Informatics Director to lead a large-scale, multi-site clinical information system implementation across multiple healthcare facilities. The position is fully remote in New Brunswick, with periodic travel to project locations, offered on a contract basis.
Responsibilities
- Lead clinical informatics activities throughout the implementation of a large-scale, multi-site CIS
- Standardize clinical workflows across healthcare facilities while accommodating approved local variations
- Collaborate with physicians, nurses, clinical leaders, and multidisciplinary stakeholders to gather requirements
- Lead clinical governance processes, facilitate working groups, coordinate decision-making
- Translate clinical requirements, workflow analyses, and approved designs into technical configuration and system build specifications
- Oversee clinical informatics and technical build teams, including resource allocation, work prioritization, testing, release management, upgrades
- Direct clinical validation, system testing, release readiness assessments, cutover planning, and go-live preparation
- Provide leadership during go-live activities, incident management, issue resolution, and post-implementation stabilization
- Embed patient safety, clinical quality, and evidence-based practices into system configuration
- Develop and support clinician education, change management, communication, and adoption initiatives
- Monitor program progress, identify risks and dependencies, track issues, and provide recommendations to senior leadership
- Mentor team members and facilitate knowledge transfer
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Health Informatics, Health Sciences, or related discipline
- At least 10 years of experience in clinical informatics, enterprise EHR/EMR/CIS implementation or optimization, and clinical workflow design, including leadership experience
- Minimum 5 years in a leadership or senior advisory role overseeing clinical informatics, clinical system build activities, or clinical workflow teams in a multi-site acute-care environment
- Demonstrated experience standardizing, redesigning, and localizing clinical workflows across multiple healthcare facilities
- Strong expertise in clinical informatics and enterprise electronic health record systems
- Proven experience engaging physicians and clinical stakeholders, facilitating clinical governance, managing competing priorities
- Hands-on knowledge of clinical validation and testing strategies