Associate Medical Director, Population Health Informatics is a unique opportunity for a practicing physician with Epic and analytics expertise to directly shape the future of value-based care, population health, and community health center integration within a leading academic health system.
Position Summary
The Associate Medical Director, Population Health Informatics is the physician informatics lead for three health system priorities: Value-Based Care (VBC) , Population Health (SDOH, registries, care gaps, equity) , and Community Connect (Epic for community health centers) . Reporting to the ACMIO – Ambulatory, this leader aligns Epic (especially Healthy Planet and analytics assets) and clinical workflows to drive care-gap closure, panel quality, equity insights, access, and clinician experience across employed practices and Community Connect sites.
Key Responsibilities
Value-Based Care (VBC)
- Co‑lead informatics strategy for VBC with Population Health/Quality teams.
- Approve clinical specifications for VBC workflows (care‑gap prompts, outreach lists, AWV, CCM, RPM readiness).
- Partner with Analytics/BI to define scorecards and ensure dashboards are usable for clinic leaders and frontline teams.
Population Health (SDOH, Registries, Care Gaps, Equity)
- Establish system standards for SDOH screening, documentation, Z‑codes, referrals, and follow‑up.
- Own clinical specifications for registries, attribution, risk stratification, and care‑gap logic.
- Validate Healthy Planet assets, Reporting Workbench, Radar/SlicerDicer content, and in‑workflow CDS.
- Translate analytics into action by defining workflows, driving adoption, and tracking outcomes.
Community Connect (Community Health Centers)
- Serve as physician informatics for Community Connect sites.
- Coordinate governance and change control with CHC leadership.
- Support onboarding, release readiness, provider education, and adoption.
Cross‑Cutting Responsibilities
- Approve and validate SmartSets, SmartForms, templates, order panels, registries, metrics, and CDS.
- Set quarterly optimization priorities and oversee upgrade readiness/adoption.
- Sponsor provider training, super‑user forums, and communication strategies.
- Define measures, interpret data, and present outcomes to leadership and governance.
Clinical Practice Requirement
- Maintain an active ambulatory clinical practice (0.6 FTE) – primary care preferred; other ambulatory specialties considered.
- Protect 0.4 FTE administrative time for informatics leadership responsibilities.
Qualifications
Required
- MD/DO with active (or eligible) Massachusetts license; board‑certified/eligible Internal or Family Medicine.
- 3–5 years ambulatory clinical practice (primary care preferred).
- Epic experience required.
- Epic Physician Builder certification (with analytics/Healthy Planet focus).
- Demonstrated leadership in provider engagement, workflow optimization, and change management.
- Strong analytics literacy (defining measures, dashboard use, interpreting trends).
Preferred
- AMIA certification (AMIA 10x10, FAMIA) or Board Certification in Clinical Informatics.
- Experience with Community Connect or similar affiliate/retail EHR models.
- Familiarity with value‑based arrangements (Medicare/Medicaid/commercial), population health operations, and equity/SDOH initiatives.
- Exposure to AI/ambient tools supporting gap closure and documentation quality.
Compensation
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (BU‑CASM) offers a competitive salary commensurate with academic training and practice experience. Salary range: $213,000 – $375,000. Benefits include paid vacation, sick time, parental leave, CME expenses, and greatly reduced tuition for faculty and dependents.
Apply
If interested, please submit your resume/CV and cover letter to .
About Us
Boston Medical Center (BMC) serves a diverse population in Boston and is the academic teaching affiliate of Boston University School of Medicine. BMC is a 514‑bed academic medical center located in Boston’s South End and provides consistently excellent and accessible health care. It is a specialty center for innovation, research, and education.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Boston Medical Center and Boston University are equal opportunity employers, committed to a common mission of improving the health of Boston’s residents while adhering to the highest standards of academic medicine. We are a VEVRAA federal contractor and conduct background checks on all final candidates for certain faculty and staff positions.
#J-18808-Ljbffr