Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)
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- Physician informatics executive directing EHR governance, reviewing clinical build proposals, and assessing documentation changes after implementation
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Healthcare IT, Epic & Clinical Informatics: positions we recruit
Healthcare Headhunters recruits healthcare professionals for employers. No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
This is what we do all day: recruit healthcare professionals.
Choose Healthcare IT, Epic, and clinical informatics candidates by the decisions they will own, not a broad technology title.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
Positions we recruit
Healthcare IT, Epic & Clinical Informatics
16 positions
16 matching positions
Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO)
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- Nursing informatics executive guiding technology governance, reviewing nursing documentation changes, and evaluating alerts affecting medication work
Director of Clinical Informatics
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- Clinical informatics director observing charting practices and directing documentation build, training, and technology governance decisions
Director of EHR Applications
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- EHR applications director overseeing analyst supervision, build standards, interface investigations, release testing, and production change approvals
Director of Healthcare Analytics
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- Healthcare analytics director supervising analysts, resolving metric definitions, validating dashboard changes, and explaining data limitations to leaders
Director of Healthcare IT
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- Healthcare technology director overseeing clinical applications, networks, security, interfaces, vendor corrections, and technical recovery during outages
Epic Application Manager / Epic Team Lead
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- Epic team supervisor assigning analyst work, reviewing build quality, directing upgrade testing, and communicating production risks
Epic Clinical Analyst (Ambulatory, ClinDoc, OpTime, ASAP, Willow, Beaker, Radiant)
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- Epic clinical analyst reviewing module-specific requests, building approved changes, testing releases, and resolving clinical user tickets
Epic Credentialed Trainer
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- Epic instructor teaching application workflows through onboarding classes, guided practice, documentation error correction, and learner understanding checks
Epic Report Writer (Clarity, Caboodle)
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- Epic reporting developer building Clarity and Caboodle datasets with SQL, testing joins, and reconciling operational report totals
Epic Revenue Cycle Analyst (Resolute HB/PB, Prelude, Cadence, Claims)
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- Epic analyst tracing registration, scheduling, charge routing, billing edits, and claim follow-up problems across revenue cycle applications
Healthcare CIO / VP of Information Technology
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- Healthcare technology executive directing enterprise systems, infrastructure, security, vendor spending, outage reviews, and board risk discussions
Interface Analyst (HL7)
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- Healthcare interface analyst monitoring HL7 feeds, investigating rejected messages, updating field mappings, and testing downstream delivery
Nurse Informaticist
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- Nursing informatics practitioner connecting nursing practice with clinical technology through documentation review and workflow assessment
Oracle Health (Cerner) / Meditech Analyst
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- Oracle Health or MEDITECH analyst configuring applications, investigating workflow defects, and distinguishing interface failures from access problems
Senior Epic Analyst
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- Senior application analyst configuring Epic builds, investigating departmental issues, comparing settings, reviewing changes, and escalating cross-team problems
Start with the work
What should you settle before you hire?
An Epic analyst title can describe several different jobs. Your opening may involve order build, release preparation, interface defects, report logic, or workflow changes with clinical leaders. The template lists titles and counts. We help you define the platform, module, project phase, approval path, and daily work attached to each position.
Healthcare IT includes specialties with different outputs. Application analysts configure, test, document, and support systems. Interface specialists trace messages between systems and investigate failed or incomplete data exchanges. Reporting and data professionals define sources, logic, and validation. Project leaders track decisions, dependencies, test dates, and handoffs. Trainers turn configured workflows into work that users can perform consistently.
Clinical informatics sits nearer care delivery and adoption. These professionals study how orders, documentation, results, and communication move between care teams. They turn observations into design questions for technical staff, then bring proposed changes back to users. Some candidates combine clinical and application experience. Others are stronger in one area, which matters when the first assignment is build, governance, education, or workflow redesign.
Ask for evidence
What should you check before an offer?
**Module and workflow ownership.** We ask, “Which Epic module or workflow did you own, and what did you do when users requested conflicting changes?” A useful answer names the care setting, build area, decision maker, testing approach, and release result.
- **Project phase and deliverables.** We ask, “Did you join for discovery, build, conversion, testing, go-live, or optimization, and what did you personally deliver?” We listen for build records, test scripts, defect logs, training materials, conversion work, or release notes.
- **Clinical workflow judgment.** For informatics candidates, we ask, “What did you observe before proposing a system change?” Useful answers separate direct observation from assumptions, identify affected roles, and explain who approved the design.
- **Data and interface work.** We ask, “What source supplied the report, dashboard, or interface message, and how did you check the output?” Strong answers cover definitions, reconciliation, exceptions, and the users relying on the result.
- **Testing and change control.** We ask, “Describe a defect found before release. How was it recorded, corrected, retested, and communicated?” We want a clear account of the candidate’s work and handoffs.
- **Move rationale and stated credentials.** We ask why the candidate is considering a move and what work they want next. We also compare stated Epic certifications or clinical licenses with your brief. You complete your own credentialing, access review, and technical or clinical assessment.
Different backgrounds, different fit
Where does relevant experience come from?
Our source pool includes application analysts, clinical informaticists, informatics nurses, trainers, interface specialists, reporting and data professionals, project leaders, and technology leaders. Their backgrounds may include provider organizations, consulting work, vendors, and related healthcare settings. People may pursue a permanent internal role after project consulting.
Others may want deeper ownership of one module, a role closer to clinical operations, fewer simultaneous implementations, or a clearer voice in governance. We test that reason against the work you need done.
Avoid these
Which hiring mistakes should you avoid?
Avoid opening an Epic analyst search without naming the module, care setting, build ownership, and split between project work and support. Certification alone does not describe daily work. Do not assume a clinical license proves informatics skill. Clinical knowledge matters, but your opening may also need evidence of design, testing, data review, governance, or user education.
Avoid combining interface troubleshooting, reporting, implementation leadership, and training in one opening without identifying the first problem to solve. Candidates need to know which decision awaits them.
Put it to work
What are the next steps?
Tell us what is changing, which platform or module is involved, who approves decisions, and what the new hire must deliver first. We present permanent candidates whose recent work matches your project phase, care setting, and decision scope. Compare shortlisted candidates’ build decisions, defect investigations, or workflow proposals with your first assignment.
Define the work
We turn those details into a focused search brief.
Compare relevant experience
You can compare evidence of ownership instead of relying on similar titles.
Hire with clear terms
Ask how they handled approval, validation, and clinical user feedback. No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
When does contract, travel, locum, or per diem coverage fit this work?
Permanent hiring is our core focus. We arrange locum tenens, travel and contract coverage on request. Credentialing, licensing and malpractice coverage are confirmed per engagement before anyone starts. Credentialing, licensing and malpractice coverage are confirmed per engagement before anyone starts. Per diem placement adds people to your own pool, not individual shifts.
How should we distinguish an Epic analyst from a clinical informaticist?
An Epic analyst commonly owns configuration, testing, maintenance, and issue resolution within an application or module. A clinical informaticist connects care delivery, workflow design, governance, and user adoption. One opening may need both perspectives, but the work differs.
Should we emphasize current Epic certification or direct workflow experience?
That depends on the first assignment. Certification shows formal module training. Direct workflow experience shows how someone handled build decisions, testing, and user feedback. We assess both so you can examine any gap.
What should we define before hiring for an Epic implementation?
Name the implementation phase, platform or module, decision makers, expected deliverables, and inherited work. Also separate project duties from the role after go-live. Those details change which backgrounds make sense.
Can one person own reporting, analytics, and data governance?
Some candidates have worked across all three, but each produces different work. Reporting delivers requested information, analytics interprets patterns, and governance sets data ownership and change rules. Decide where you need the deepest experience.
How can Healthcare Headhunters help with this hire?
Send us the role, where the person will work and what needs to change with this hire. We will ask about the work, not just the title. Share any license or schedule limits that could rule someone out before we begin the search.
If you need to separate application build, clinical informatics, data, integration, training, or implementation leadership, Healthcare Headhunters can help you frame the opening around the work your new hire will own.
What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
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