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 CMI - Os, 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 Our Values. As a MultiCare employee, we'll rely on you to reflect our core values of Respect, Integrity, Stewardship, Excellence, Collaboration and Kindness. Our values serve as our guiding principles and impact every aspect of our organization, including how we provide patient care and what we expect from each other.