Job Description
Baptist Health
Chief Medical Information Officer
Jacksonville, FL
Witt/Kieffer has been retained to identify and evaluate candidates for the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) of Baptist Health in Jacksonville, FL. Baptist Health is the region's most comprehensive health care provider committed to continually expand and enhance the circle of care to meet the needs of their thriving and ever-growing community.
Baptist Health consists of the Wolfson Children's Hospital which is an academic medical center, Baptist Heart Hospital, the Baptist Health Foundation, Baptist Downtown Medical Center, Baptist Medical Center Nassau, Baptist Medical Center Beaches, and Baptist Medical Center South. The flagship hospital of Baptist Health is the Baptist Downtown Medical Center. Centrally located in Jacksonville on the Southbank of the St. Johns River, Baptist Medical Center is a full-service, MagnetTM designated tertiary care hospital representing nearly all major specialties. This flagship campus is also home to Baptist Heart Hospital, offering comprehensive, high-quality cardiovascular care. Consistently rated Jacksonville's "Most Preferred Healthcare Provider" by consumers in the annual National Research Corporation survey, Baptist recently was named one of the 100 Best Places to Work in Healthcare in the U.S. by Modern Healthcare. For 2009-10, Baptist Downtown was named among U.S. News & World Report's "Best Hospitals 2009-10" and among the top 50 in the country for neurology and neurosurgery. The Wolfson Children's Hospital was named among the top three children's hospitals in Florida by Child's magazine (2007), Wolfson Children's Hospital is the regional pediatric referral hospital serving children throughout Northeast Florida, Southeast Georgia and beyond.
The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) will be responsible for supporting the development, implementation and use of clinical information systems to assist clinicians in the delivery of the highest quality and most appropriate patient care. The CMIO also is also responsible for representing the needs and requirements of the clinical community and serving as an advocate for the medical group, promoting the use of information technology in the clinical setting. The CMIO will work in partnership with Healthcare Informatics, Information Services (IS) and with members of operations and administration to translate clinician requirements into specifications for new clinical support and research systems.
The ideal CMIO candidate should have a strong knowledge of health industry direction and clinical information technology. The qualified candidate must be a licensed physician with a history of medical practice. Experience with medical informatics and change management associated with introduction of IS to clinical culture is required. Preference will be given those physicians with prior experience with large scale project management, strong communication skills, and an understanding of clinician's systems needs on both the adult and children's side of health delivery.
We would appreciate receiving recommendations or nominations of qualified candidates. You may be assured that all nominations will be handled with the utmost of professional courtesy and confidentiality. For more information please contact Arlene Anschel at aanschel@wittkieffer.com or 630-575-6184 or Linda Hodges at lhodges@wittkieffer.com or 630-575-6157.
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