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Dartmouth Health Chief Nursing Informatics Officer in Lebanon, New Hampshire
Overview
Chief Nursing Informatics Officer
Dartmouth Health
Dartmouth Health is pleased to announce a Chief Nursing Informatics Officer (CNIO) search.
This key system leader will serve as the authoritative voice for nursing informatics practice and strategy across the health system. The CNIO will identify opportunities for technological innovation and partner with Nursing Executive Leadership to align informatics strategy with practice models, standards, and goals.
About the job:
Reporting to the Chief Health Information Officer for Dartmouth Health, this position requires direct collaboration with nursing, medical, operational, quality, and technology leaders throughout the system. Daily activities focus on ensuring that clinical information systems, digital health capabilities, analytics, and emerging technologies support safe, high-quality, and equitable patient care while advancing the organization’s academic, research, and educational missions.
Key responsibilities include:
Providing strategic direction for nursing informatics across all care settings, including inpatient, ambulatory, procedural, and home care.
Connecting nursing interests with system clinical informatics governance, prioritization, and investment decisions.
Nursing informatics stewardship of Epic design, optimization, and lifecycle management.
Advancing the use of nursing analytics and data governance to support nurse-sensitive indicators, operational decision-making, and performance improvement.
Enabling informatics education initiatives for nursing staff.
About Dartmouth Health:
Dartmouth Health is New Hampshire’s largest, and only academic, health system. We serve patients from across northern New England and provide access to over 1,800 providers. Anchored by the academic Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, NH, the system includes the NCI-designated Dartmouth Cancer Center, the Dartmouth Health Children’s hospital, 8 member hospitals, 30+ ambulatory clinic locations across the region, a Visiting Nurse Association, and the Jack Byrne Center for Palliative and Hospice Care.
At Dartmouth Health, we believe that the diversity of our patients, people, and community shows a strength we support and celebrate. We are committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for everyone to thrive, honoring all within our organization and the communities we serve. Our belief is simple and actionable: Dartmouth Health is better when we embrace each other with open hearts and minds, confront our biases, and take a stand for equity and inclusion.
Minimum qualifications:
Qualified candidates must hold an active RN license as well as a master’s degree in Nursing, Informatics, Healthcare Administration or a related field. ANCC Board Certification in Nursing Informatics (RN-BC) is required.
A minimum of 8-10 years of leadership experience that include substantial responsibility for clinical informatics, Health IT strategy, or EHR oversight is required
A doctoral degree (DNP, PhD, or equivalent) as well as Epic EHR experience is strongly preferred.
Candidates must live within a reasonable commuting distance to Dartmouth Health’s headquarters in Lebanon, NH.
Candidates are requested to supply a Resume, Cover Letter, and Impact Statement for this search.
Please address cover letters to the Search Chair:
Randa Perkins, MD, MBA
Chief Health Information Officer, Dartmouth Health
All application material should be submitted to:
Carrie Moore, DBA
Executive Recruiter, Dartmouth Health
Carrie.E.Moore@hitchcock.org
Dartmouth Health is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, veteran status, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Responsibilities
Qualifications
Area of Interest:Nursing
Pay Range:$2,080.00/Yr. - $2,079,979.20/Yr. (Based on 40 hours per week, otherwise pro rata)
FTE/Hours per pay period:1.00 - 1.00 - 40 hrs/week
Shift:Day
Job ID:38933
Dartmouth Health offers a total compensation package that includes a comprehensive selection of benefits. Our Core Benefits include medical, dental, vision and life insurance, short and long term disability, paid time off, and retirement plans. Click here for information on these benefits and more:Benefits | DHMC and Clinics Careers
Dartmouth Health is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics comply with applicable Federal civil rights laws and do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex. We do not exclude or treat people differently because of race, color, national origin, age, disability, or sex.