Tim Nicholls

About Tim Nicholls

Seasoned healthcare IT & business intelligence executive with over 25 years in practice and a demonstrated ability to deliver impactful outcomes across diverse healthcare settings. My focus involves building and managing multi-disciplinary health-technology teams that ensure safe, high quality care through technical solutions. My expertise spans clinical informatics, IT strategy, digital transformation, and data analytics. I have a proven track record of integrating technical with real-world workflows, infrastructure development, and healthcare data management, specifically linking patient outcomes and user behavior to our interventions.My vision is to create a seamless healthcare ecosystem where technology enables the healthcare workforce to achieve its aims in optimal patient outcomes, high provider satisfaction, and sustainable profitability. I aim to advance digital health and restore the intrinsic joy of medicine for patients and providers alike.I have directed clinical informatics two large 25+ hospital integrated delivery networks in California, Oregon and Hawaii. I lead clinical informatics for acute care, including clinical content, clinical decision support, clinical application implementations (including 17 hospital implementations of Epic EHR and the care transformation necessary to maintain integrity of care), and SQL-based clinical outcomes data extraction & analytics for the Epic EHR. I lead the Epic physician builder program, which empowers clinicians to optimize the EHR for their workflows and needs.Experience: • Board-certified in clinical informatics by the American Board of Preventive Medicine• 13 current EpicCare certifications & 3 current EpicCare badges• Extensive experience with Cerner EHR build• Leadership in EHR implementations and upgrades• EHR governance and related process design• Collaborating cross-functionally to optimize utilization, revenue capture, and quality metrics in hospital settings• Clinical decision support development and overhaul, including a reduction of 78% in physician alerting by identifying alert impact (or lack thereof) on patient outcomes• Evidence based order set development and workflow integration• Leadership of all-discipline physician subject matter expert teams (100 physicians) across an integrated delivery network• Board certified in hospital pediatrics & general pediatrics by the American Board of Pediatrics.• Practiced tertiary care, complex-case hospitalist pediatrics in the Bay Area since 2003.• Deep history of GME and UME instruction with curriculum design experience.

Experience

1. Administrative Medical Director, Clinical Informatics (Acute - Hospital)

   Adventist Health

   Jan 2025 — Present · CA, US

   Demonstrate evidence-based benefit to patient care and physician user experience of hospitals, emergency departments, infusion centers, and ambulatory surgery centers during implementation from Cerner to Epic EHR in a 27-hospital system across California, Oregon and Hawaii.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BA, Molecular & Cellular Biology

  1991 — 1995

• Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California

  Doctor of Medicine - MD

  1995 — 1999

Skills

• Internal Medicine
• Emergency Medicine
• Medical Informatics
• Infectious Diseases
• Working with Physicians
• Neuroscience
• Forensic Medical Examination
• Clinical Workflow
• Healthcare Information Technology
• Electronic Medical Record (Emr)
• Healthcare Information Technology (Hit)
• Public Health
• Oncology
• Informatics
• Healthcare
• Patient Safety
• Quality Improvement
• Clinical Decision Support
• Medical Education
• Clinical Research
• Ehr
• Pediatrics
• Clinical Trials
• Medicine
• Hospitals
• Epic Systems
• Emr
• Photography
• Cpr Certified
• Pals
• Professional Instruction
• Physicians
• Board Certified
• Inpatient Care
• Physician Network Development
• Weddings
• Inpatient
• Surgery
• Health Education
• Healthcare Management