Medical Informaticist

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare is a nonprofit system serving Utah and Idaho. One of the nation’s leading integrated healthcare systems, ranked # 1 or 2 by Modern Healthcare for all of the past eight years, Intermountain provides world-class service in 21 hospitals and more than 140 health centers, clinics, homecare and urgent care facilities. Intermountain has a reputation as a pioneer in continuous quality improvement and clinical programs. Being part of Intermountain means joining a world-class team and embarking on a career filled with opportunities, innovation and fulfillment. Our mission is: excellence in the provision of healthcare services to communities in the Intermountain region which drives our 29,000 employees and more than 3,300 physicians. Doctors, hospitals, and health plans work together to take healthcare to new levels of excellence. Intermountain is recognized as a leading healthcare system and a model for what is right in American medicine.

A Medical Informaticist bridges the gap between the day-to-day practice of healthcare information management and the imperative to bring the best of research in information systems and clinical computing to the information infrastructure used by Intermountain Healthcare.  The key goal served by this position is to maintain Intermountain Healthcare at the forefront of existing and emerging ways to manage and use information technology to increase the quality and safety of care, while appropriately reducing its costs.

Advanced Degree in Medical Informatics, Nursing Informatics, Information Systems or related field or equivalent experience. PhD or MD with substantial experience preferred.  Must have a thorough understanding of medical information systems, theoretic and applied research and graduate-level educational activities and have demonstrated technical and leadership qualities.