Chief Medical Information Officer

Join a team that shares your calling 

At MultiCare, you’re more than just a job title — you’re part of a team built on trust that cares for each other, our patients and our communities. Belonging here means living our mission and values every day. If your purpose and passions align with ours, you’ll find a place to grow, do meaningful work and build a career you love in a community that feels like home. 

FTE:1.0, Shift: Day, Schedule: Mon-Fri

The Pay Scale is $345,010 to $466,773

Position Summary

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 CMIOs, 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 

Why MultiCare? 

 

Rooted in the local community 

Partnering with patients, families and neighbors across the Pacific Northwest for more than 140 years. 

 

Growth and education 

Competitive tuition assistance, award-winning residencies, fellowships and career development to invest in you. 

 

Well-being and support 

Generous PTO, Code Lavender and Employee Assistance Programs to help you maintain balance and feel cared in your work and life. 

 

Living our values 

Respect, integrity, kindness and collaboration guide how we care for patients, communities and each other. 

 

Belonging for all 

Resource Groups and outreach programs help ensure every team member feels safe, seen, heard and valued. 

 

Pacific Northwest lifestyle 

Work and live where natural beauty, adventure and strong community connections are part of everyday life. 

 

Pay and Benefit Expectations

We provide a comprehensive benefits package, including competitive salary, medical, dental and retirement benefits and paid time off. As required by various pay transparency laws, we share a competitive range of compensation for candidates hired into each position. Pay is influenced by factors specific to applicants, including but not limited to: skill set, level of experience, and certification(s) and/or education. If this position is associated with a union contract, pay will be reflective of the appropriate step on the pay scale to which the applicant’s years of experience align.

Associated benefit information can be viewed here.