Director of Health Informatics Epic Acute e and Specialty Applications

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Under the oversight of the system Vice President of Health Informatics, the Director of Health Informatics is responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership for the acute and specialty services applications, ensuring clinical workflows, system functionality, and informatics solutions effectively support patient care, provider efficiency, and organizational goals. The Director is accountable for ongoing EHR optimizations, including clinical content development, EHR support and maintenance, implementation of programs that hold clinicians accountable for standardized EHR workflows, and providing leadership to informatics staff on special projects. The Director is also responsible for establishing programs that effectively lead the organization through EHR enterprise-wide change management.

The Director will lead the Health Informatics Epic Radiant, OpTime/Anesthesia, ASAP, Cupid and other teams as assigned, and serve as the primary liaison between clinical staff, operational leaders, and the health informatics Epic Applications teams, Clinical Data Management team, Epic Training team, and IT teams. The Director must be effective in leading multidisciplinary teams through the planning, development, and implementation of EHR features and optimization projects. The Director will collaborate with the Vice President of Health Informatics, to offer focused effort on prioritizing projects, setting expectations for implementation timelines, ensuring optimal end-user experience, and requiring compliance with system-defined EHR workflows.  The Director will collaborate with the Director of Clinical Applications and Decision Support on department initiatives and cross-team initiatives.

Methodist Health System is a faith-based organization with a mission to improve and save lives through compassionate, quality healthcare. For nearly a century, Dallas-based Methodist Health System has been a trusted choice for health and wellness. Named one of the fastest-growing health systems in America by Modern Healthcare, Methodist has a network of 12 hospitals (through ownership and affiliation) with nationally recognized medical services, such as a Level I Trauma Center, multi-organ transplantation, Level III Neonatal Intensive Care, neurosurgery, robotic surgical programs, oncology, gastroenterology, and orthopedics, among others. Methodist has more than two dozen clinics located throughout the region, renowned teaching programs, innovative research, and a strong commitment to the community. Our reputation as an award-winning employer shows in the distinctions we’ve earned:

• Great Place to Work Certified 2026-2027

• Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work 2025 & 2026

• Glassdoor’s Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Biotech & Pharma 2026

• TIME’s Best Companies for Future Leaders 2025 & 2026

• Newsweek’s America’s Most Admired Workplaces 2026

• Glassdoor’s Best-Led Companies 2025

• Fortune Best Workplaces in Health Care 2025

• Military Friendly Gold Employer 2025

• Becker’s Hospital Review 150 Top Places to Work in Healthcare 2025

• Newsweek’s Americas Greatest Workplaces 2025