Primary Care Physician / Clinical Informaticist - Yale Health

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Overview
In 1971, Yale University established Yale Health to provide health services to its facility, staff and students through a multidisciplinary health maintenance organization located on campus. Yale Health members include students, staff, faculty and their families who come from every state in the country and almost every country in the world. With over 50 years of service to the Yale community, our facility at 55 Lock Street, is where our members receive most of their care from our 150+ providers. It is a 144,000 square foot medical facility with over 90 exam rooms, an Acute Care Department, a 15-bed inpatient facility with two negative pressure rooms, a diagnostic imaging suite including MR and CT scan, x-ray and ultrasound and a full-service retail pharmacy.

Yale Health is seeking an experienced, board-certified physician with formal training or experience in clinical informatics to serve in a hybrid Physician Informaticist role. This 1.0 FTE position consists of 0.5 FTE clinical practice in one of Yale Health’s primary care service lines (Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, OB/GYN, or Pediatrics) and 0.5 FTE dedicated to clinical informatics leadership under the direction of the Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO). Reporting to the Chief Medical Information Officer (0.5 FTE Informatics) and respective Service Line Chief (0.5 FTE Informatics), the Physician Informaticist serves as a physician informatics leader within Yale Health, supplementing the CMIO, and functions as Yale Health’s flagship Epic Physician Builder. The role provides physician-level informatics leadership for Epic optimization, clinical decision support, workflow improvement, AI-enabled clinical tools, and digital health initiatives across all Yale Health service lines. The Physician Informaticist serves as the CMIO’s primary physician partner in Clinical Informatics and is expected to deputize for the CMIO in select governance, project, and decision-making forums when appropriate.

Beyond Yale Health, the Physician Informaticist will represent Yale Health in the broader Yale University, Yale School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Health System (YNHHS), and Yale Medicine medical communities and Medical Information Officer (MIO) team, ensuring Yale Health’s priorities are reflected in enterprise informatics, AI, and digital health strategy.

This position offers protected informatics time, active clinical practice, clinical faculty appointment eligibility, and the opportunity to shape EHR and digital tools used by every Yale Health provider serving more than 50,000 members. The role is optimal for a physician who has completed an ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowship and/or holds ABPM board certification in Clinical Informatics, with demonstrated experience leading physician-facing informatics initiatives.

Schedule: Full-time – 37.5 hours. Occasional evenings, weekends, holidays/recess and on-call coverage as defined by the assigned clinical service line.  Occasional evenings, weekends, and on-call coverage as defined by the assigned clinical service line.

Hybrid informatics work permitted consistent with Yale Health policy and operational needs.

Required Skills and Abilities

1. Graduation from an accredited allopathic or osteopathic medical school.  Board certification in the assigned clinical specialty

2. Completion of an ACGME-accredited residency in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, OB/GYN, or Pediatrics.

3. Completion of an ACGME-accredited Clinical Informatics fellowship and/or board certification in Clinical Informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) or American Board of Pathology, or meaningful demonstrated informatics experience

4. Demonstrated proficiency with Epic in an active clinical role, including participation in physician-facing Epic optimization or build initiatives.

5. Demonstrated experience with clinical informatics initiatives, EHR optimization, workflow design, or clinical decision support development.

6. Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills, including experience working effectively across multiple reporting relationships and with senior clinical and administrative leaders.

7. Demonstrated ability to mentor physicians and clinical staff.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

1. Epic Physician Builder certification.

2. Prior experience as a Physician Informaticist, Medical Director of Informatics, or equivalent informatics role.

3. Experience with Epic optimization at a Gold Stars / Signal benchmark level 4. Experience with AI-enabled clinical documentation, ambient scribing, or clinical decision support development.

5. Experience working in academic medical center, university health service, or integrated delivery network environments.

6. Eligibility for academic appointment at the Yale School of Medicine and/or secondary appointment with Yale BIDS.

7. Track record of presentations, publications, or scholarship in clinical informatics

Principal Responsibilities

 

1. Defines and documents patients’ clinical problems and reaches proper diagnoses; plans and executes therapy in a timely manner; keeps records of care; provides consultation and teaching for midlevel clinicians. 2. Conducts rounds and signs out patients in a timely, thorough manner and answers calls and pages promptly. 3. Participates in hospital coverage, including: weekday and weekend on-call rotations, hospital rounds, overnight phone calls. 4. Sees patients in Acute Care in rotation. 5. May perform other duties as assigned. Required Education and Experience Graduation from an accredited medical school.

Job Posting Date

07/17/2026

Job Category

Professional

Bargaining Unit

NON

Compensation Grade

Administration & Operations

Compensation Grade Profile

Leader (P8)

Salary Range

$0.00 - $0.00

Time Type

Full time

Duration Type

Staff

Work Model

On-site

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

This role is a healthcare worker position. Healthcare workers (HCW) are defined as university employees working a healthcare setting who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients, human research subjects or infectious materials including body substance, contaminated medical supplies, devices and equipment, surfaces, or air.  HCW have specific health requirements that must be met prior to starting work, including MMR vaccine or immunity, varicella (chickenpox) vaccine or immunity, TB screening, COVID vaccine according to University policy, hepatitis B vaccine or immunity, and annual flu vaccination.

Posting Disclaimer

Salary offers are determined by a candidate’s qualifications, experience, skills, and education in relation to the position requirements, along with the role’s grade profile and current internal and external market conditions.

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through  their hiring department.

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