“Responsibilities
The Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) executes position responsibilities that demonstrates leadership, experience, and creative approaches to management of complex patient care. The CHIO demonstrates
- Leading and organizing delivery of care to assure continuity of care and peer accountability for practice, including access to care and discharge planning
- Using advanced clinical knowledge/judgment to promote staff involvement in planning, decision-making, and evaluating outcomes
- Functioning as an expert in clinical practice and/or areas related to the assigned roles and responsibilities
- Systematically evaluating current practice, and formulating outcomes for groups of patients and/or organizational processes within an area of expertise
- Guiding, developing, and supporting staff from a leadership perspective…”
“In this key leadership role, the CHIO has responsibility for resource planning, and utilization; consulting with the implementation of a quality management program, specified performance measures, evaluation of clinical information technology systems and tools. He/she functions within the leadership role to assure effective use of resources and compliance with a broad range of performance measures and external reviewing requirements.
- Functioning at an advanced level of informatics practice encompassing the full range of activities that focus on the methods and technologies of information handling in the delivery of Veteran care;
- Communicating health informatics issues with VAMC management and determining what issues need to be raised to the VISN level
- Advancing national solutions for managing workflow knowledge in clinical systems as well as patient safety mandated clinical guidelines
- Identifying and raising IT issues and proposed solutions to the VISN level
- Identifying and analyzing prompt solutions to problems in software applications using proper trouble shooting and reporting techniques
- Teaching and conducting effective training activities to support software implementation and to support informatics staff
- Functioning as liaison between end-users, OI&T, Biomed and the clinical services as well as all established informatics coordinating councils or committees
- Functioning as chair of the local informatics coordinating council
- Use available tools to provide data to management for strategic and operative planning, and employ such data to guide management decisions
- Providing direction, oversight, supervision, and guidance to the clinical informatic staff …”
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