MU Healthcare seeks a strategic and impact-driven executive to serve as its Chief Medical Information Officer. This role presents a unique opportunity to shape the future of digital health, clinical informatics, and technology enabled care delivery within a leading academic health system. This position offers a highly visible platform to influence how technology supports clinicians, advances patient-centered care, and drives measurable improvements in quality, safety, and outcomes.
MU Health Care is an integrated academic health system based in Columbia, Missouri, offering comprehensive care across more than 80 specialties and serving a 25-county region with a mission to save and improve lives through exemplary education, research, and patient care. The system includes seven hospitals—along with more than 80 primary and specialty clinics. MU Health provides the region’s only Level I trauma center and houses advanced programs such as a Comprehensive Stroke Center and the Roy Blunt NextGen Precision Health Institute, which supports cutting-edge clinical and translational research. The organization employs more than 8,500 staff and cared for over 1.18 million clinic visits in FY2025 reflecting its position as a major healthcare provider and academic partner within the University of Missouri System.
The CMIO will serve as a strategic clinical leader at the intersection of medicine, technology, and operations, guiding the evolution of the electronic medical record and related digital platforms across the enterprise. This includes leading major system selection, optimization and transformation efforts, streamlining clinical workflows, reducing documentation burden, and improving clinician wellness through thoughtful, data-driven design.
This role provides the opportunity to partner closely with executive leadership, clinical departments, nursing and ancillary leaders, and IT teams to align strategy with organizational priorities. The CMIO will play a central role in advancing the use of clinical data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to inform decision-making, improve performance, and support emerging models of care, while ensuring regulatory compliance and patient safety. As a key bridge between MU Health Care and the School of Medicine, the CMIO will help unlock the full potential of academic-clinical collaboration—leveraging informatics, research, and innovation to improve outcomes and strengthen the organization’s research and education mission. The position offers the chance to cultivate clinician-led innovation, mentor future leaders in informatics, and expand the impact of translational research.
Most importantly, the CMIO will help advance health equity across rural and underserved communities by enabling more consistent access to high-quality care through digital tools, data-driven population health strategies, and interoperable systems. By optimizing virtual care, care coordination, and clinical decision support, this role will contribute directly to reducing disparities and improving outcomes for patients across diverse geographies.
For a physician leader who thrives in complex environments and is motivated by meaningful change, this role offers the opportunity to leave a lasting imprint on clinical practice, digital transformation, and the equitable future of healthcare delivery.
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