City: Greenville

ECU Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Vice President, Technical Services/Chief Technology Officer.

ECU Health is a mission-driven health care system in eastern North Carolina that reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties. ECU Health’s system of care includes an academic medical center with two campuses, affiliated with The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, seven community hospitals, numerous outpatient facilities, home health, and hospice and wellness centers. The system also includes a multi-specialty physician and provider group, offers access to more than 500 providers in 100+ practice locations.

Facts and Figures:

  • 1,708 licensed beds
  • $2,153,497B net operating revenue
  • 13,636 employees
  • 65,039 admissions
  • 395,801 outpatient visits
  • 6,188 births
  • 681 open heart surgeries
  • 245,125 emergency visits

Vice President, Technical Services/Chief Technology Officer Position Overview

The Vice President, Technology Services/Chief Technology Officer (CTO) serves as the technology strategist for ECU Health.    

ECU Health’s technology functions include server, storage, image, end user computing, collaboration and telephony, and all other communications and processing systems, as well as data center operations and disaster recovery.   

The CTO architects technical strategy and infrastructure standards ensuring high availability of clinical and business applications. The CTO also leads a Technical Infrastructure team of around 80 people.   

The CTO also plays a key role in the organization’s digital transformation. The CTO has responsibility for products that keep ECU Health at the forefront of digital and technological capabilities.  

As a key business executive, the CTO will offer business rationale and perspective to technology opportunities and investments.  The CTO will be a technology advocate throughout the organization for the effective application of technology to meet business needs and support growth.   

Reporting to the CIO, the CTO works with Information Services and business leadership to:  

  • Define and implement policies, procedures and technical solutions that ensure interoperability 
  • Manage security risks 
  • Lower total cost of ownership  
  • Provide a platform for scalable future growth

Qualifications

Education: 

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering mathematics or business required.  

Required Experience: 

  • 10+ years of management experience as a senior level information systems professional with a strong technical background and proven track record of accomplishments in a large, complex multi-entity organization. 
  • A track record of successfully developing and implementing IS strategies at an enterprise level, including the research, selection, implementation, operation and maintenance of large-scale systems over multiple hardware and software platforms. 
  • Prior experience delivering high availability systems in a 24/7 environment across geographically dispersed business units. 

Preferred Experience: 

  • Experience in the healthcare industry, with an understanding of the industry’s drivers, direction and operations.

On-site Requirements:

  • Relocation to North Carolina is required for this position.   
  • An on-site presence is dependent on organizational priorities and the need for face-to-face interaction with operating unit leadership and staff.  
  • Occasional travel to ECU Health Community Hospitals, Physician Practices and off-site locations is necessary.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby.

ECU Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Chief Medical Informatics and Digital Health Officer.

ECU Health is a mission-driven integrated system that reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties across eastern North Carolina.

The health system includes ECU Health Medical Center, its flagship academic medical center with two campuses affiliated with The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, nine regional hospitals, outpatient facilities, home health, hospice, and wellness centers. 

ECU Health also includes a multi-specialty physician and provider group that offers access to more than 500 providers in over 100 practice locations.

Chief Medical Informatics and Digital Health Officer Position Overview

As a key strategic executive for ECU Health, the Chief Medical Informatics and Digital Health Officer (CMIDHO), will develop and execute strategies to optimize and transform care delivery models and the clinician-patient experience through the smart use of the EHR, digital tools, advanced technologies, services and processes. The CMIDHO will have a dyad relationship with the Chief Information Officer. 

The CMIDHO will develop these strategies in collaboration with executive and clinical leaders taking into consideration clinical, administrative, operational, research and educational needs of the organization. 

The CMIDHO will set the digital health vision and align the use of technology with health system strategies and key clinical priorities. The CMIDHO serves as the evangelist of technology enabled clinical transformation by setting the tone, spurring enthusiasm, and challenging current wisdom. 

As a change agent, the CMIDHO will engage multi-disciplinary teams and build enabling capabilities to reimagine care delivery and processes that support personalized human experiences across all touchpoints. The CMIDHO will balance the excitement and investment in digital heath technologies with the adoption and value proposition that is complex and multifaceted. 

The CMIDHO has the dual responsibility to maintain and incrementally improve the EHR and core technology systems and platforms while also leading and supporting digital transformational activities. This will require striking the right balance between short term improvement and long-term value and exploring new opportunities in the digital world while addressing existing operational challenges through the available digital means.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Doctor of Medicine (MD or DO) with at least five years practicing while leveraging an EHR  for care delivery; eligibility for unrestricted license to practice in North Carolina. 
  • At least 2 years of significant leadership experience in a clinical informatics role within a  health care system leveraging an electronic health record. 
  • Board Certification in appropriate specialty. 
  • Visionary and global thinking related to the use of technology in medicine.
  • Comfort in challenging the status quo and ‘the way things have always been done’ to bring creativity and innovation into the organization.
  • Proven track record as a problem solver and business leader with a high emotional quotient and strong interpersonal skills.
  • Passionate about building collaborations of patient and clinician-focused innovators to solve complex healthcare problems. 
  • Experience coaching, mentoring, persuading, leading and advising health care providers in  the use of clinical information systems to provide high quality patient care. 
  • Excellent collaboration and influencing skills, with an ability to partner with a dynamic leadership team and navigate enterprise politics and matrixed relationships. 

Desired: 

  • Board certification in Clinical Informatics. 
  • Formal training in Clinical Informatics. 
  • Significant leadership experience with an Epic health system. 
  • Experience in a complex academic environment. 
  • Experience leading and/or supporting system-wide digital transformation efforts.
  • Industry experience working with biopharma, payers, startups, and technology vendors is a plus.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett or Margaret Cowan.

ECU Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Ambulatory Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer.

ECU Health is a mission-driven integrated system that reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties across eastern North Carolina.

The health system includes ECU Health Medical Center, its flagship academic medical center with two campuses affiliated with The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, nine regional hospitals, outpatient facilities, home health, hospice, and wellness centers. 

ECU Health also includes a multi-specialty physician and provider group that offers access to more than 500 providers in over 100 practice locations.

Ambulatory Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer Position Overview

The Ambulatory Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer (ACMIO) serves as a liaison between physicians and Information Services (IS) to maximize patient outcomes, experience, and safety along with quality of care and operational efficiency. 

As one of three ACMIOs reporting to the Chief Medical Informatics Officer, the Ambulatory ACMIO will work to align priorities with the strategic mission of the ECU Health Medical Group and collaborate with ECU Health’s Community Partners. 

By working closely with ambulatory physician – users “on the ground,” the ACMIO will support the use of existing technologies and evaluate new solutions that enable high-quality care, as well as define current and future workflows that meet physician needs and align with strategic initiatives. 

The ACMIO will focus largely on the Epic EHR design but will also advise on other technology leveraged by physicians including NLP software, digital apps, analytics, and clinical decision support. 

As the Ambulatory SME on the medical informatics team, the ACMIO will assist the CMIO with the vision and strategy in the deployment of clinical and analytics technology that enhance population health outcomes, optimize patient experience, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The ACMIO will continue to practice in their specialty for 20% of their time.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Five or more years’ experience in clinical informatics/analytics with management responsibility.
  • Doctor of Medicine (MD or DO) with at least five years practicing while leveraging an EHR; eligibility for unrestricted license to practice in North Carolina.
  • Board Certification in appropriate specialty.
  • Expert knowledge in healthcare informatics and able to anticipate trends and develop programs and key initiatives.
  • Organizational change management experience focused on driving value, pursuing innovation, overcoming resistance, and being a catalyst for effective change.

Desired: 

  • Board certification in Clinical Informatics.
  • Formal training in clinical informatics.
  • Significant leadership experience with an Epic health system.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett or Margaret Cowan.

Vidant Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics.

Vidant Health is a mission-driven health care system that serves more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties in Eastern North Carolina. As one of the most progressive not-for-profit health care systems, Vidant Health’s system of care includes the following:

  • Vidant Medical Center – a level I trauma center and the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine
  • Eight community hospitals
  • Vidant Medical Group – primary care and specialty services
  • Vidant Home Health & Hospice
  • Vidant Wellness centers
  • Vidant Health Foundation

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics Job Overview

The Director, Enterprise Data and Analytics develops the vision, strategy and provides operational leadership for Vidant Health’s data and analytics program.

As a highly visible and impactful role reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Director fosters collaborative partnerships with technology, clinical and business teams across the organization to understand and deliver on the broad information needs necessary to support Vidant’s strategic objectives and operational imperatives.

Through routine, direct engagement with senior clinical and administrative leadership, the Director’s team supports the development of actionable insights and provides a critical linkage between the strategies of both analytics and the organization to achieve breakthrough performance for all Vidant Health stakeholders.

The Director develops and drives the roadmap for the data and analytics program with the overarching goal to transform and modernize Vidant’s analytics strategy, and to provide solutions that empower stakeholders to quickly answer questions and gain insights. The roadmap will include plans for reporting and visualizations as well as the appropriate underlying data architecture, governance, analytics, and technologies.

The Director is accountable for leading the continuous development of advanced analytics capabilities, service delivery, and uncovering drivers of business and clinical operations and performance. The Director strives to identify opportunities to eliminate duplication of effort and streamline the way our stakeholders consume data and information in a way that establishes a new framework of data governance standards for the organization.

Qualifications

Required:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5+ year’s experience in an analytics leadership/management role
  • Strong passion for a data driven culture; embraces a federated model for enterprise analytics
  • 3+ years of healthcare experience
  • Solid technology leadership skills
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Familiarity with data governance and security/privacy compliance including clinical research
  • Experience with data access tools such as: SQL, SAS, R, or Python
  • Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau

Preferred:

  • Master’s degree

The Director may elect to live in surrounding areas, including Raleigh, but will be on-site part of the time.

Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.  If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby

Vidant Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for this VP, Clinical Informatics job.

Vidant Health is a mission-driven health care system that serves more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties in Eastern North Carolina. Their partnership with The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University provides a continuum of care that addresses wellness, prevention, and community health issues as well as acute care, post-acute care, home health, and hospice.

Additionally, in 2013, Vidant Health opened James and Connie Maynard Children’s Hospital, and in April 2018, they opened Vidant Cancer Care at the Eddie and Jo Allison Smith Tower in Greenville. The 418,000-square-foot facility serves as the region’s hub for oncology care.

VP, Clinical Informatics Job Overview:

Blending strategy, team building, and mentorship, the VP, Clinical Informatics at Vidant Health will drive a variety of technology projects across all care settings to enable the health systems digital transformation strategies. Current initiatives include value-based care, patient and clinical team member experience, quality improvement, capacity management, and precision medicine.

As a dynamic executive leader, the VP of Clinical Informatics will partner with operations to help grow and deliver on the strategic roadmap, prioritize projects, set organizational expectations, and “get into the weeds” when needed.

The VP of Clinical Informatics will report to the CIO and collaborate with the CMIO, IT leaders, as well as the nursing and clinical leadership teams.

Minimum Qualifications:
  • Master’s degree in Nursing or related clinical discipline
  • Current RN or other clinical licensure required
  • Informatics certification (ANCC Nursing Informatics or CPHIMS)
  • Minimum seven years progressive informatics leadership experience, preferably in large multi-facility health system
  • Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex informatics solutions to clinical and executive audiences
  • Demonstrated understanding of business operations and clinical workflows
  • Ability to multi-task and manage complex issues with executive stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
Preferred Qualifications:
  • Doctorate in Nursing Practice or Informatics
  • Professional publication experience
  • Epic experience highly preferred
  • Organizational change management experience
  • Participation in application of AI such as predictive models, precision medicine, or pharmacogenomics

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Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this VP, Clinical Informatics job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.  If you have questions about this position, please email Bryan Kirby.

Vidant Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Director, IS Population & Analytics position.

The Director, IS Population & Analytics position requires a high level understanding of healthcare financing, as well as health care delivery and the ability to think strategically and offer innovative solutions to complex challenges. The IS Director Population Health and Analytics partners with the IS Director, Analytics and Integration to develop and implement the analytics road map for VH, as well as drive the implementation of the Vidant Health population health strategy.

Vidant Health is a mission-driven, 1,447-bed health system that annually serves more than 1.4 million people in Greenville, North Carolina.

Key Network Indicators:

  • 63,093 admissions
  • 47,630 surgeries
  • 5,914 births
  • 335,004 outpatient visits

 

Director, IS Population & Analytics job at Vidant Health

 

Position Description:

The Information Services (IS) Director of Population Health and Analytics is a seasoned clinical and business professional who has significant subject matter experience in defining and developing analytic and population health strategies that align with organizational strategic priorities. The position requires a high level understanding of healthcare financing, as well as health care delivery and the ability to think strategically and offer innovative solutions to complex challenges. The IS Director of Analytics and Population Health has overall responsibility for vendor management, as related to population health technology tools, and ensures alignment of tools to achieve maximum ROI. The IS Director works with the CIO, CMIO, VP of Clinical Informatics, as well as other executive leaders, to strengthen and develop population health strategies to improve value based outcomes, patient experience of care, and cost of care delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Partners with executive leadership in defining and developing the overall IS population health, supporting analytics strategy, and associated performance reporting to drive success in population health outcomes, patient experience, and cost of care delivery.
  • Liaises with operational leaders to support operational analytics, tools, and dashboards to support efficient, high quality, and cost effective patient care and improvements in outcomes.
  • Responsible for forming key partnerships both internally with key business partners, as well as externally, with state and national partners as related to population health initiatives.
  • Ensures key decisions that are necessary for a successful population and analytics strategy are clearly defined, vetted, and executed with key stakeholders and governance.
  • Stays abreast of present and emerging market trends as related to population health, and brings this information forward into actionable planning and improvement initiatives.
  • Defines the governance and prioritization infrastructure to support population health analytics, and collaborates with clinical leaders, quality, finance, and marketing across the system.
  • Responsible for vendor management, as related to population health tools, and ensures alignment of tools to achieve maximum ROI.
  • Advises on turning data into action, monitors the effectiveness of the use of data in context to the overall population and analytics strategy, as well as the impact on performance of value-based payment arrangements.
  • Serves as a highly visible leader, colleague and mentor, providing leadership, direction, and education across the system as it relates to analytics and population health.
  • Partners with VH leadership to create alliances as related to population health and analytics; obtains support and respect from diverse groups and fosters an understanding and commitment to VH population and analytics strategy.
  • Defines key operational readiness activities to ensure success of a population health program, and works with VH leadership to ensure understanding of the necessary drivers for success.
  • Defines analytics initiatives in support of transforming care and driving value in Value Based payment and incentive programs.
  • Collaborates with the IS leadership and business partners to promote and sustain a culture of access to data, where end users have timely, trustworthy, and accurate intelligence through self-service or analytics tools consistent with the organizations strategic priorities, resources, and governance.
  • Oversees inventory management of existing and new reports that support organizational strategic priorities, and leads the management of requests and prioritization efforts.
  • Develops professional credibility across the system; Gains respect and builds relationships that support population health, both internally and externally.

Required

  • Bachelor’s degree in clinical discipline
  • Master’s Degree
  • Experience in quality improvement, healthcare data analysis or clinical outcome management
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