Piedmont Healthcare seeks a strategic and collaborative nurse executive to serve as its Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO). This is a pivotal leadership opportunity to shape the future of nursing informatics at one of Georgia’s leading healthcare systems. Reporting to the Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) and with a dotted-line relationship to the System Chief Nurse Executive, the CNIO will play a critical role on the leadership teams of both the informatics and nursing teams.
As the senior nursing informatics executive, the CNIO will partner with senior leaders across nursing, clinical, medical, quality/regulatory, and operational domains to develop and execute a nursing informatics strategy that enhances clinician effectiveness, efficiency, and experience across the continuum of care. The CNIO will serve as a strategic liaison between Information Services (IS), nursing, and ancillary clinical departments to identify and implement informatics solutions that advance clinical practice, improve patient outcomes, and optimize the clinician experience using Epic.
This executive will lead a team of informaticists and collaborate closely with Chief Medical Informatics Officers (CMIOs), application teams, service line leaders, and training teams to ensure informatics strategies are integrated, standardized, and scalable. The CNIO and CMIO(s) will function as dyad partners, leading through influence and collaboration in a highly matrixed and dynamic environment.
Key priorities for the CNIO include developing and implementing a system-wide nursing informatics strategy, leading initiatives to implement unified communications, optimizing and expanding virtual nursing program, reducing documentation burden and duplicative workflows, driving adoption of workflow efficiency tools, and defining and optimizing standard EHR practices for nursing and ancillary care providers. The CNIO will also participate in the System Nursing Leadership Council and serve as a key advisor on nursing practice, technology optimization, and regulatory readiness.
The ideal candidate is a confident, adaptable leader with emotional intelligence and strong political acumen. They should possess the ability to quickly build rapport, navigate complex organizational dynamics, and bring people together around a unified informatics vision. This role requires a true player-coach- someone who can provide strategic leadership while also being hands-on, actively engaging in the work needed to move initiatives forward. Experience leading nursing informatics in a large, complex, matrixed health system is essential, as is a demonstrated ability to develop, scale, and sustain successful informatics programs.
The CNIO will be instrumental in shaping the future of informatics at Piedmont—impacting clinicians, patients, and the broader healthcare experience.
Inquiries, nominations, and applications are invited. Please direct a resume expressing interest in the role to the WittKieffer team via the buttons below. For questions or additional information, please reach out to Nick Giannas or Wendy Kerschner via email to [email protected].