Details
Posted: 08-Jun-22
Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: MD/DO
Categories:
Executive
Sector:
Hospital, Public and Private
Chief Medical Information Officer, Region
Nevada Central OfficeRemote/Hybrid
The Region Chief Medical Informational Officer (RCMIO) is primarily responsible for managing, planning, directing, coordinating, and monitoring the informatics organization focus on Provider and Advanced Practice Providers (APP) within a Region of Intermountain Healthcare. This Region encompasses a geography of Nevada, Southern Utah, and Northern Arizona.
The RCMIO will provide effective leadership and strategic vision for effective cross-professional teams that focus on how health information technology can help people live the healthiest lives possible. With this common purpose, and in collaboration with other clinical and technology leaders and operating units such as Clinical Programs, Clinical Service lines, and SelectHealth and will implement, support adoption of, and improve and innovate health information technologies.
As a Clinical Informatics leader, the RCMIO oversees operations for the care delivery components within the Informatics organization and ensures the integration of the 'the voice of the provider' into operational strategies of the Intermountain Digital Technology Services Team (formerly CTIS).
As a clinical leader, this position is accountable for successfully engaging providers and other clinicians within the position portfolio in developing, implementing, optimizing, and adopting Health Information Technology (HIT). The RCMIO collaborates with clinical, informatics and technology leaders to foster a positive and productive relationship between Digital Technology Services Team and clinicians.
There is opportunity for this to be a remote/hybrid position, if candidate has ability to travel to the region as needed.
Scope
This is a region-wide position reporting to the Chief Health Information Officer. This position requires direct and continuous interface with all levels of leadership, vendors, strategic partners, and key community members.
This role leads or co-leads effective, high-performing, relationship-based leadership teams that support Intermountain's hospitals, medical staff members, physicians, APPs and clinical caregivers, and SelectHealth. This role will lead or co-lead continuous improvement and innovation efforts withing Health IT in the region and coordinate with system leaders. The RCMIO leads/collaborates with other Digital Technology Services leaders to support Intermountain's clinical research and academic efforts.
The position requires a visionary leader with sound knowledge of healthcare, business management and a working knowledge of information systems, practices, and technologies. This position will proactively work with other Digital Technology Services teams and users to implement practices that meet defined policies and standards for regional-facing operations within Digital Technology Services. This position must be highly knowledgeable about the needs of the business and the voice of the customer in both clinical and non-clinical roles and ensure that information systems are maintained in a fully functional, reliable and sustainable mode.
Job Essentials
1. Develops and maintains effective communication strategy between Intermountain Digital Technology Services and Provider leadership, physicians, APPs, and clinicians.
2. Provides leadership for clinical information systems implementation teams in the development and implementation of provider and clinician training plans.
3. Anticipates business needs and plays a collaborative role in Digital Technology Services capabilities in support of customer-facing strategic roadmaps and creating a supporting Digital Technology Services strategy to meet the needs of the customer / end-user and provides medical direction for Digital Technology Services clinical tools.
4. Provides leadership on the education of physicians, APP, and clinicians on the benefits and features of all clinical information tools.
5. Assists Digital Technology Services leadership in developing and implementing collaborative networks with partnering external organizations.
6. Provides leadership in efforts to improve the effectiveness of clinical information systems in improving quality care delivery.
7. Ensure a safety culture across all Digital Technology Services activities, employees, and partners through formal programs and audits.
8. Works collaboratively with other Digital Technology Services Leaders, develops, implements, maintains, and publishes applicable and up-to-date customer-centric policies and procedures, standards, and guidelines. Facilitates the approval, training, and dissemination of these policies and practices.
9. Assists Digital Technology Services leadership in creating a customer-facing roadmap in support of lines of business in conjunction with Intermountain Healthcare's strategic initiatives.
10. Participates in applicable Digital Technology Services governance activities.
11. Serves as the liaison to the appropriate community parties to ensure that Intermountain Healthcare maintains a strong security posture.
12. Manages physician contracts within their portfolio for consulting on clinical Digital Technology Services projects.
13. Coordinates within their portfolio, working with vendors and partners involved with the Digital Technology Services initiatives.
14. Facilitates metrics and reporting to measure the efficiency and effectiveness of the program, facilitates appropriate resource allocation, and increases the maturity of the programs.
16. Regularly communicates with staff through huddles, team meetings, individual one-on-one meetings, rounding, and skip levels interviews as appropriate, and manages resource allocation to projects to ensure timely delivery within budget and according to requirements.
Minimum Qualifications
Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine Degree, or Advance Practice Provider obtained through an accredited institution. Education will be verified.
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Current Board Certification in their specialty
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Direct patient care experience.
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At least 5 years of successful and progressive experience in a matrixed health care system
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Demonstrated outcomes in Informatics, patient safety and experience, provider and caregiver wellbeing and engagement
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Ability to successfully communicate clinical needs to non-clinical people and to communicate technical issues to clinicians.
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Experience with healthcare provider delivery practices and norms in an Informatics role.
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Demonstrated effectiveness as a thought leader and business partner to operating leaders.
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Demonstrated effectiveness as a leader for staff management, development, and mentorship.
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Experience in a role requiring effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
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Experience using word processing, advanced or complex spreadsheet and database applications, internet and e-mail and scheduling applications, as well as computerized tracking systems.
Preferred Qualifications
Clinical Informatics Board certified or eligible. Education is verified.
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Experience in Value Based Care informatics or Value Based Care delivery
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Experience and proven track record in developing information systems policies and procedures, as well as successfully executing programs that meet the objectives for Intermountain Healthcare.
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Experience in a role requiring budget responsibility and line management accountability.
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Demonstrated success influencing a program's overall business strategy and processes. Collaborative but decisive personal style; highly effective communicator and problem solver.
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Active clinical practice and holds active privileges at an Intermountain Hospital and is credentialed by SelectHealth.
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Advanced training in Clinical Informatics including but not limited to master's degree or American Medical Informatics Association 10 by 10 program.
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Three Years of previous clinical operational management experience.
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Prior experience with hospital, clinic, and revenue cycle health information technology.
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Prior experience with health information technology project acquisition, implementation, and management.
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Experience in improvement science (i.e., ATP, Lean, Six Sigma, or Project management)
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Experience with Allscripts Touchworks
Physical Requirements:
Interact with others requiring employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information.
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Operate computers, telephones, office equipment, and manipulate paper requiring the ability to move fingers and hands.
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See and read computer monitors and documents.
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Remain sitting or standing for long periods of time to perform work on a computer, telephone, or other equipment.
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Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.
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Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy.
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This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.
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May be expected to stand or bend (while performing surgery) in a stationary position for an extended period of time.
Location:
Nevada Central Office
Work City:
Las Vegas
Work State:
Nevada
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
The salary range for this position is:
$7.25 - $999.99
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