Physician, Chief Health Informatics Officer Recruitment or Relocation Incentive May be Available

This is an Open Continuous Announcement & will remain open until June 11 2026 or until all positions are filled. The first cut-off date is December 31 2025. Eligible applications received after that date will be referred at regular intervals or as additional vacancies occur on an as-needed basis until positions are filled.

Applicants will remain active for 3 months after their initial application is received and/or updated. After that time you must update your application through your USAJobs account if you would like to be made active again for possible consideration during the open period.
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The Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) is responsible for the overall operation and successful integration in the development implementation and communication of clinical informatics processes to facilitate and support the mission to provide a continuum of quality care to our Veterans at the VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend Health Care System (VATVCBHCS).

• Oversees all administrative aspects of the Health Informatics Program to include but not limited to budget and fiscal management human resource management strategic planning and program development and assuring that the clinical and administrative functions are integrated in order to provide optimum utilization of the available resources.
• Ensures the quality and timeliness of the services provided customer satisfaction as well as compliance with standards of accrediting bodies such as the Joint Commission and the Inspector Generals Combined Assessment Program.
• Responsible for appropriate use of available resources as well as for inspiring motivating and guiding the Health Informatics staff in achieving the strategic goals and plans of the service.
• Collaborates with other Service Chiefs and program managers in fulfilling their responsibilities.
• Accountable to the Chief of Staff for managing the programs and services pertaining to informatics.
• Ensures adequate resources are available to support the functionality of clinical and administrative applications and the interrelationship of those applications to the operation of those clinical services.
• Advises leadership of potential technical/administrative difficulties that may be incurred as a result of CPRS and related applications and provides creative resolutions within appropriate mandates/guidelines.
• Ensures that applicable performance measures scores are maintained at an acceptable level as defined by standards and goals set by VA Texas Valley Coastal Bend executive leadership and higher headquarters.
• Establishes quality control measures and associated data collection activities to ensure appropriate and accurate routing of consults.
• Responsible for ensuring that systems support specialists (Clinical Application Coordinators Health Informatics Specialists) time is appropriately utilized.
• Demonstrates a mastery of leading organizational change fostering collaboration communicating effectively and managing large scale projects related to information addition including how business processes influence health care delivery and the flow of data among the major domains of the health care system.
• Facilitates the enhanced use of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other technology to various levels of leadership and clinical staff.
• Works to ensure informatics program is in line with appropriate goals and objectives.

Conditions of employment

• U.S. Citizenship; non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• All applicants tentatively selected for VA employment in a testing designated position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
• Subject to background/security investigation.
• Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process. Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements ( Effective May 7 2025 drivers licenses or state-issued dentification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
• Must pass pre-employment physical examination.
• Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
• You may be required to serve a probationary period.
• Complete all application requirements detailed in the Required Documents section of this announcement.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position you must meet the basic requirements as well as any additional requirements (if applicable) listed in the job announcement. Applicants pending the completion of training or license requirements may be referred and tentatively selected but may not be hired until all requirements are met. Currently employed physician(s) in VA who met the requirements for appointment under the previous qualification standard at the time of their initial appointment are deemed to have met the basic requirements of the occupation.

Basic Requirements:

• United States Citizenship: Non-citizens may only be appointed when it is not possible to recruit qualified citizens in accordance with VA Policy.
• Education: Degree of doctor of medicine or an equivalent degree resulting from a course of education in medicine or osteopathic medicine. The degree must have been obtained from one of the schools approved by the Department of Veterans Affairs for the year in which the course of study was completed.
• License: Current full and unrestricted license to practice medicine or surgery in a State Territory or Commonwealth of the United States or in the District of Columbia.
• Residency Training: Physicians must have completed residency training approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs in an accredited core specialty training program leading to eligibility for board certification. (NOTE: VA physicians involved in academic training programs may be required to be board certified for faculty status.) Approved residencies are: (1) Those approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) b) OR
  (2) Those approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA)OR
  (3) Other residencies (non-US residency training programs followed by a minimum of five years of verified practice in the United States) which the local Medical Staff Executive Committee deems to have provided the applicant with appropriate professional training and believes has exposed the physician to an appropriate range of patient care experiences.
  Residents currently enrolled in ACGME/AOA accredited residency training programs and who would otherwise meet the basic requirements for appointment are eligible to be appointed as Physician Resident Providers (PRPs). PRPs must be fully licensed physicians (i.e. not a training license) and may only be appointed on an intermittent or fee-basis. PRPs are not considered independent practitioners and will not be privileged; rather they are to have a scope of practice that allows them to perform certain restricted duties under supervision. Additionally surgery residents in gap years may also be appointed as PRPs.
• English Language Proficiency: Proficiency in spoken and written English.

• Two (2) years of prior VHA CHIO experience within the last 5 years.
• Completion of AMIA 10X10 course or equivalent
• Informatics Board Certification
• Lean 6 Sigma Green Belt Certification
• Completion of LDI or equivalent leadership course