Chief Medical Information Officer; CMIO; Information Solutions

Job Description Summary

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) serves as the strategic and operational bridge between clinical practice and health information technology, ensuring that digital solutions enable high-quality, safe, and efficient patient care. As a physician leader, the CMIO champions the optimization and adoption of clinical information systems, translates frontline clinical needs into effective technology strategies, and guides system-wide initiatives that advance clinical excellence, provider engagement, and data-driven decision‑making.

Collaborating with medical staff, operational leaders, IS, quality, and informatics teams, the CMIO plays a critical role in aligning technology investments with organizational goals, regulatory requirements, and the evolving needs of patients and clinicians.

This position is a direct report to the Chief Information Officer (CIO), Information Solutions. The position partners with Chief Medical Officer, Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO), Chief Health Information Officer, Chief Quality Officer, College of Medicine leadership, MUSC Center for Telehealth, MUSC Center for AI, and MUSC Health operational and digital leaders.

Medical University Hospital Authority (MUHA)

Employee

Regular

CC002269 SYS - IS Senior Leaders

Salary

Health-00

40

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is MUSC Health’s senior physician informatics executive, accountable for the full spectrum of physician and Advanced Practice Provider (APP) informatics across the enterprise — including the Charleston academic medical center, MUSC Health regional hospitals across South Carolina, ambulatory practices, and affiliated care settings.

This role owns the physician experience with clinical technology end-to-end — from change management and major implementations to onboarding, education, and coaching; from relational support with practicing physicians and APPs to deep partnership with physician leaders, College of Medicine faculty, and executive stakeholders.

Reporting directly to the CIO, Information Solutions, the CMIO provides direct influence and partnered leadership over Epic and clinical technology strategy, shaping how tools such as clinical decision support, order sets, documentation workflows, and emerging technologies — including AI-enabled and ambient capabilities — are designed, governed, and used to drive outcomes for MUSC Health’s patients and providers.

This is a high‑trust, high‑influence role that blends strategic leadership with hands‑on engagement, requiring strong clinical credibility, systems thinking, and exceptional relationship leadership in an academic, research‑intensive, and rapidly growing health system.

• Partner with MUSC University, the College of Medicine, and the research enterprise to drive research enablement directly into care model design and delivery — translating discovery, learning health system insights, and clinical trials infrastructure into the everyday physician and APP workflow.

• Embed research-informed pathways, clinical decision support, and data capture into Epic and adjacent tools so that academic insights enrich the patient and provider experience at the point of care.

• Collaborate with MUSC University faculty, department chairs, and research leaders to align informatics investments with the tripartite mission and to ensure clinical technology supports education, training, and translational research alongside care delivery.

• Work as a strategic partner with the MUSC Center for Telehealth — leveraging MUSC’s national leadership in telehealth — to drive physician and APP adoption of virtual care, hybrid care, and remote patient monitoring models, and to ensure these capabilities are integrated seamlessly into Epic and clinician workflows.

• Partner with the MUSC Center for AI (and related digital innovation teams) to evaluate, govern, pilot, and scale AI-enabled and ambient technologies — driving responsible technology and digital adoption while ensuring clinical…