Region Director Medical Informatics - South
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Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 138 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings.
Our Mission
As CommonSpirit Health, we make the healing presence of God known in our world by improving the health of the people we serve, especially those who are vulnerable, while we advance social justice for all. To learn more about a calling that defines and unites, please click here for more information about our mission, vision, and values.
The posted compensation range of $72.88 - $108.42 /hour is a reasonable estimate that extends from the lowest to the highest pay CommonSpirit in good faith believes it might pay for this particular job, based on the circumstances at the time of posting. CommonSpirit may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law.
The Region Director, Medical Informatics is responsible for implementing and directing operations and strategy as determined by the Medical Informatics Senior leadership for the department's operational efficiency, innovation, talent, and technical and financial leadership.
This region director level role will be responsible for project management and exercise strategic and visionary thinking having long-term organization-wide application and impact; develop and implement programs critical to CommonSpirit Health; and exercise control and supervision of assigned functions and multiple resources that comprise the Medical Informatics service line essential in the organization and its customers. This role will directly partner with clinical informatics, IT, and regional clinicians to ensure the highest standard in electronic health record deployment, optimization strategy, and clinical workflow standardization.
Essential Functions:
- Participates in the development of regional strategy and innovation, providing a pragmatic approach to implementation.Works with operational stakeholders and organizational leadership to develop short- and long-range plans to improve system adoption and use.
- Responsible for the team’s agility and high performance, which models the willingness, leadership, and courage to challenge the status quo, foster creativity, and problem-solve to activate change, innovation, and resilience.
- Assumes responsibility for such duties and projects as may be assigned by the leader and organization. Remains proficient in using all CommonSpirit Health-specific applications supported by the Medical Informatics team. Maintains accurate documentation within the Incident Management System to include a clear description of the problem, the steps utilized in problem-solving, and the final solution.
- Engages with Providers to enhance their Efficiency and Productivity by reducing barriers to complete and efficient documentation, improving charge capture, streamlining workflow, and reducing waste.
- Enhances the usability of our providers' electronic platforms to decrease burden and reduce variability, removing ineffective workflows to enhance provider utilization of our technology.
- Participates in the design and support of effective and regulatory-compliant content, Clinical Decision support, and reporting/metrics to provide insight and enhance clinical and operational outcomes
- Advocates for the needs of our Regional Providers, representing their needs across the organization and improving their experience with the technology they utilize by supporting optimization build and leading change preparedness efforts.
- Supports and champions national initiatives from design through implementation by promoting and effecting provider readiness, application rationalization, biomedical integration, etc.
- Advocate, steward, and support executive initiatives and strategic growth while maintaining a clear line of sight for executive and provider clinical systems optimization requests.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in related technical/business areas required.
- Masters degree strongly preferred in Healthcare or Business Administration, Healthcare Informatics, or Nursing preferred.
- Minimum of 5 years experience in Healthcare IT, Informatics or related service line and 5 years leadership experience.
- Minimum of 3 years of Informatics experience preferred.
Where You'll Work
CHI Saint Joseph Health is one of the largest and most comprehensive health systems in the Commonwealth of Kentucky supporting over 5,000 active team members, 8 hospitals, and a Medical Group with more than 200 locations across Central and Eastern Kentucky.
At CHI Saint Joseph Health, we are dedicated to building healthier communities by elevating patient care through high quality healthcare professionals and Humankindness. We care about our team members well-being and offer benefits that complement work-life balance such as:
CHI Saint Joseph Health is part of CommonSpirit Health, a nonprofit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.
Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.
Depending on the position offered, CommonSpirit Health offers a generous benefit package, including but not limited to medical, prescription drug, dental, vision plans, life insurance, paid time off (full-time benefit eligible team members may receive a minimum of 14 paid time off days, including holidays annually), tuition reimbursement, retirement plan benefit(s) including, but not limited to, 401(k), 403(b), and other defined benefits offerings, as may be amended from time to time. For more information, please visit https://www.commonspirit.careers/benefits.
Unless directed by a Collective Bargaining Agreement, applications for this position will be considered on a rolling basis. CommonSpirit Health cannot anticipate the date by which a successful candidate may be identified.
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