• Lead the informatics strategy and roadmap for the contract, aligning clinical, operational, and IT goals to organizational strategy and regulatory requirements. • Chair or co-chair clinical informatics committees, governance councils, and multidisciplinary working groups. • Establish and enforce clinical informatics policies, standards, and best practices, including change control and clinical safety/quality oversight. • Translate clinical requirements into optimized, evidence-based workflows, order sets, clinical decision support (CDS), care pathways, and documentation standards. • Champion safety, usability, and clinician experience by applying human factors and workflow engineering principles. • Ensure content standardization (terminologies, value sets, templates) and reduce unwarranted variation across sites, service lines, and specialties. • Oversee selection, configuration, and optimization of EHRs and related systems (e.g., ancillary, device integration, imaging, telehealth, patient engagement, population health). • Guide data quality initiatives, interoperability (HL7, FHIR, APIs, registries, HIE), and analytics to support clinical quality, performance improvement, and reporting. • Evaluate and govern the use of AI/ML-enabled clinical tools and decision support for safety, bias mitigation, transparency, and clinical efficacy. • Ensure clinical informatics deliverables are **acceptable, high quality, and standardized** to meet clinical, contractual, and regulatory standards (e.g., CMS, The Joint Commission, ONC, HIPAA). • Lead clinical risk assessments, safety event reviews related to health IT, and corrective actions. • Oversee testing, validation, and go-live readiness for clinical functionality and content changes. • Serve as the clinical liaison among providers, nursing, ancillary departments, IT, operations, and executive leadership. • Lead structured change management strategies, including communication plans, stakeholder alignment, and adoption metrics. • Direct clinician education, competency, and super-user programs; monitor adoption and satisfaction and remediate barriers. • Manage the contract’s clinical informatics scope, staffing, budget (as applicable), milestones, deliverables, and risk management. • Produce high-quality documentation (program plans, governance artifacts, status reports, SOPs, validation evidence) and present to internal/external stakeholders. • Ensure timely, compliant delivery across environments.