Associate Medical Director, Population Health Informatics

The role of Associate Medical Director, Population Health Informatics, is a unique opportunity for a practicing physician with Epic and analytics expertise to directly shape the future of value-based care, population health, and community health center integration within a leading academic health system.

Position Summary

The Associate Medical Director, Population Health Informatics, is the physician informatics lead for three health system priorities:

• Value-Based Care (VBC)
• Population Health (SDOH, registries, care gaps, equity)
• Community Connect (Epic for community health centers)

Reporting to the ACMIO – Ambulatory, this physician leader aligns Epic (especially Healthy Planet and analytics assets) and clinical workflows to drive care-gap closure, panel quality, equity insights, access, and clinician experience. This role ensures upgrade readiness and adoption across both employed practices and Community Connect sites.

While analysts perform day-to-day builds, this leader sets standards, validates designs, and drives provider adoption and education. Epic Physician Builder certification (with analytics expertise) is required.

Key Responsibilities

Value-Based Care (VBC)

• Co-lead informatics strategy for VBC with Population Health/Quality teams.
• Approve clinical specifications for VBC workflows (care-gap prompts, outreach lists, AWV, CCM, RPM readiness).
• Partner with Analytics/BI to define scorecards and ensure dashboards are usable for clinic leaders and frontline teams.

Population Health (SDOH, Registries, Care Gaps, Equity)

• Establish system standards for SDOH screening, documentation, Z-codes, referrals, and follow-up.
• Own clinical specifications for registries, attribution, risk stratification, and care-gap logic.
• Validate Healthy Planet assets, Reporting Workbench, Radar/SlicerDicer content, and in-workflow CDS.
• Translate analytics into action by defining workflows, driving adoption, and tracking outcomes.

Community Connect (Community Health Centers)

• Serve as physician informatics lead for Community Connect sites.
• Coordinate governance and change control with CHC leadership.
• Support onboarding, release readiness, provider education, and adoption.

Cross-Cutting Responsibilities

• Approve and validate SmartSets, SmartForms, templates, order panels, registries, metrics, and CDS.
• Set quarterly optimization priorities and oversee upgrade readiness/adoption.
• Sponsor provider training, super-user forums, and communication strategies.
• Define measures, interpret data, and present outcomes to leadership and governance.

Clinical Practice Requirement

• Maintain an active ambulatory clinical practice (0.6 FTE) (primary care preferred; other ambulatory specialties considered).
• Protect 0.4 FTE administrative time for informatics leadership responsibilities.

Qualifications

Required

• MD/DO with active (or eligible) Massachusetts license; board certified/eligible.
• 3–5 years ambulatory clinical practice (primary care preferred).
• Epic experience required.
• Epic Physician Builder certification (with analytics/Healthy Planet focus).
• Demonstrated leadership in provider engagement, workflow optimization, and change management.
• Strong analytics literacy (defining measures, dashboard use, interpreting trends).

Preferred

• AMIA certification (AMIA 10x10, FAMIA) or Board Certification in Clinical Informatics.
• Experience with Community Connect or similar affiliate/retail EHR models.
• Familiarity with value-based arrangements (Medicare/Medicaid/commercial), population health operations, and equity/SDOH initiatives.
• Exposure to AI/ambient tools supporting gap closure and documentation quality.

Compensation: 

Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine (BU-CASM) offers a competitive salary commensurate with academic training and practice experience.  We continue to evaluate our compensation plan to remain one of the most competitive in salary and benefits.  Our staff receive a highly competitive salary and generous benefits that include paid vacation, sick time, parental leave, and CME expenses. Faculty members and their dependents qualify for greatly reduced tuition at Boston University, ranked among the top 50 universities in the US.

Compensation ranges between $213,00 and $375,00                             
The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training, and departmental budget. The above hiring range represents a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting. 

Apply: If interested in this employment opportunity, please send your resume/CV and cover letter, via this job post or directly to: karin.laping@bmc.org

About Us:  Boston Medical Center proudly serves a diverse population in Boston and boasts a world-class academic medical center in Boston University School of Medicine, with a commitment to caring for all patients, including the underserved.   BMC is a 514-bed academic medical center located in Boston’s historic South End. The largest safety-net hospital in New England, BMC provides consistently excellent and accessible health care to all. BMC is the primary teaching affiliate of BU-CASM, a highly ranked medical school dedicated to urban and international health and a recognized leader in groundbreaking medical research. Boston Medical Center is the academic teaching hospital for Boston University School of Medicine.

Boston is an exciting place to live, with everything a major world city can offer.  The “smallest big city” in the US, enjoy watching the Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, and Red Sox, then hop a flight to Paris at Logan International Airport, just 10 minutes from downtown. Boston is also the nation’s healthcare hub and offers dramatic opportunities for innovation and academic advancement in the healthcare industry. Bostonians enjoy surrounding parks, beaches, and forest preserves by day, and local breweries, eclectic restaurants, historic theaters, and world-class music and arts by night, including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Boston Ballet. With the most Colleges and Universities in the country, Boston feels young, cutting-edge, and highly academic. 

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The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to qualifications, experience, education, licenses, specialty, training, and departmental budget. The above hiring range represents a good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

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