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Keck Medicine of USC has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for their next Chief Technology Officer.

Keck Medicine of USC is the University of Southern California’s medical enterprise, one of only two university-based medical systems in the Los Angeles area. Encompassing academic excellence, world-class research and state-of-the-art clinical care, they attract internationally renowned experts who teach and practice at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, the region’s first medical school.

In 2018, U.S. News & World Report ranked Keck Medical Center of USC among the top three hospitals in Los Angeles and top seven in California.

Facilities:

Keck Medical Center of USC, includes two acute care hospitals: Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital
USC Verdugo Hills Hospital (a community hospital)
More than 40 outpatient facilities, some at affiliated hospitals, in Los Angeles, Orange, Kern, Tulare and Ventura counties
USC Care Medical Group, a medical faculty practice

Working at USC:

USC is a leading private research university located in Los Angeles and the city’s largest private employer, responsible for more than $5 billion annually in economic activity in the region.

An award-winning employer, USC has been honored every year since the Chronicle of Higher Education began its Great Colleges to Work For program in 2008, including two mentions on their prestigious Honor Roll (“the best of the best”).

Chief Technology Officer Position Overview:

The Chief Technology Officer aligns the technical information technology vision with Hospitals’ and Health Sciences Campus (HSC), which includes Keck School of Medicine’s (KSOM) and USC Care Medical Groups, with overall strategy by integrating processes with the appropriate technologies to meet current and future needs.

The CTO actively contributes to the development and implementation of an IT strategic plan for the Health Sciences Campus and serves as senior technical IT leader for HSC with responsibility for all aspects of developing and implementing technology initiatives.

The CTO has responsibility for day-to-day management and operations work covering architecture, design and development, security, operational integrity, system support and maintenance of existing enterprise information and clinical systems, computer operations, email, and IT financial and human resource management.

The CTO reports to the CIO and manages a staff of approximately 125 people. Keck Medicine recently made significant investments in technology infrastructure. The incoming CTO will benefit from having a solid infrastructure in place and will be tasked with developing impactful solutions that are aligned with the organizational strategic plan.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree (Master’s preferred)
Demonstrated track record of progressively increasing sustained leadership within a complex environment across all areas of information technology
Comprehensive technical knowledge of and experience with systems design and leadership for a large and diverse organization
Successful, large-scale project management experience
Proven operational skills and keen sense of managing technology
Demonstrated ability to interpret technology and market trends as a foundation for technology and product roadmaps
Experience leading IT security
Experience in teaching or academic healthcare setting preferred

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Harris Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Vice President/Chief Technology position.

The Vice President/Chief Technology Officer will have overall responsibility for the architecture, design, implementation, operation, and support of the technology infrastructure services including end user computing solutions, network, servers, storage, messaging, telecommunications, database administration and other technology platforms across the enterprise. This position is also responsible for IT infrastructure facilities. Services include solutions engineering, desktop support and service desk, unified communications services, and IT software and hardware asset management.

Harris Health, located in Houston, Texas, is a fully integrated healthcare system, offering an array of primary care, specialty care and acute care, and includes two full-service hospitals. Harris Health is also a teaching system for Baylor College of Medicine and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Health).

Key Network Indicators:

1,947,989 total outpatient visits
172,345 total emergency visits
6,596 births

Facilities include:

Primary Care
Same Day Clinics
Specialty Care
Hospitals
Emergency Care

Position Description:

The CTO leads the development of infrastructure strategy, architecture, service delivery, standards, and procedures for the enterprise. This position analyzes and predicts trends and develops long-range plans designed to maintain cost effectiveness and competitiveness of the enterprise IT infrastructure. The CTO participates in IT strategy planning activities, bringing a current knowledge and future vision of infrastructure technology and systems and best practices as related to the needs of the business. The position proactively researches and recommends courses of action to prevent problems and to maintain high infrastructure service levels for the user community. The CTO establishes metrics, key performance indicators and service level agreements for driving the performance of IT service delivery. This position reports to the Chief Information Officer and leads a team of around 100 employees.

Position requirements:

Harris Health System’s IT organization has a highly developed ITIL framework ensuring a common language and standardized processes across the organization. Experience with ITIL is critical to the success of anyone in this positions.
Executive-level experience at the Vice President rank or higher with a $1.5B organization
Strong technical background with a consistent promotional track record
Oversight of the full scope of infrastructure technology: network, storage/data, database, help desk, desktop engineering and support, field services, and solution engineering
Proven success in disaster recovery and business continuity planning

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Seattle Children’s has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for their next Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

The Chief Information Security Officer will embody Seattle Children’s mission to become the country’s #1 children’s hospital. This position is an incredible opportunity to serve as a senior IT leader setting strategic direction for information security and provide mentorship and leadership for a team of around 22, as well as outsourced staff.

Seattle Children’s, an award-winning leader in pediatric care and recognized as a Best Place to Work, invests in their people, passionately supports a healthy work-life balance, and provides great benefits. They are in the top five facilities in pediatric research and are experiencing tremendous growth, currently involved in multiple construction projects, including additions to the hospital, new research buildings, and a new build out for IT, located in downtown Seattle. The hospital serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country.

Seattle Children’s Key Network Indicators:

429,255 patient visits
403 licensed beds
7,977 employees

Seattle Children’s Chief Information Security Officer Position Overview:

Seattle Children’s lives its mission in everything it does: “We provide hope, care and cures to help every child live the healthiest and most fulfilling life possible.”

They are seeking a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) who will embody this mission while serving as a senior leader in the IT department. The CISO leads an information security team of approximately 22 individuals and manages outsourced staff. The CISO will play a key role in continuing to mature the information security program and policies, as well as building information security awareness. This position will work collaboratively with business stakeholders including appropriately managing risk while balancing agility.

Seattle Children’s is a complex organization. The Chief Information Security Officer will oversee information security for the health system as well as the ground breaking research done at Seattle Children’s Research Institute. The Seattle Children’s Research Institute was recently joined by The Center for Infectious Disease Research (CIDR). CIDR brought an annual $25 million National Institutes of Health-funded research portfolio. CIDR will add to the research institute’s extramural funding, which totaled over $120 million in 2017, and boost its position among the nation’s top five pediatric research centers.

Seattle Children’s is currently involved in multiple construction projects, including additions to the hospital, new research buildings, and a new build out for IT, located in downtown Seattle. One of their five pillars is innovation and involves relationships with major companies such as Amazon and Microsoft, as well as working with startups and conducting Hackathons. The entire organization is invested in being the best children’s hospital in the country. They are in the top five facilities in pediatric research and are experiencing tremendous growth.

The organization provides low-cost mass transit passes and actually provides a daily stipend for not driving solo to work. For each day you bike, take mass transit or carpool, you earn money. They also fit you for a bike and provide a helmet and maintenance if you agree to ride to work, two days per week.

Seattle Children’s is a great place to live your values and help care for children.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree (Master’s preferred)
10+ years of experience in information security and risk management leadership roles in an academic medical center, complex health system or life sciences role
CISM or CISSP preferred

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UMC Health System has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer position.

As a senior leader in the IT department, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) leads a team of five: three Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (CSIRT) engineers, a disaster recovery/risk manager and an identity and access control specialist.

UMC Health System is recognized as “One of the Best Companies to Work for in Texas” in 2018 by Texas Monthly. UMC Health System, a 500-bed public hospital in Lubbock County, Texas, consists of a team of healthcare providers that have served the West Texas and Eastern New Mexico region since 1978. UMC is also the primary teaching hospital for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center and is recognized as Healthcare’s Most Wired.

Key Network Indicators:

4,600 employees
30,748 inpatient admissions
700 medical staff
$2.3 B total revenue

Chief Information Security Officer Position Description:

The incoming CISO will put together a comprehensive security plan which includes information security policy and education. UMC recently experienced a data breach and is working with OCR on remediation. The incoming CISO will work in close collaboration with Compliance and Internal Audit on the continuing work with OCR. This is an ideal opportunity for an information security leader to mature an existing program and positively influence the culture of security across the organization. The position is responsible for identifying, directing, coordinating, evaluating, and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements while enabling UMC to develop an anticipatory response to minimize information security risk. The CISO acts as the key liaison and focal point for all information security communications and projects, and coordinates the necessary alignment of information security and staff resources. The position is also responsible for budgeting, project prioritization, and providing guidance to senior leadership in all matters of cybersecurity.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science, MIS, cybersecurity or equivalent
CISSP certification
Five years’ experience in information security
Two years managerial experience with budgetary authority
Healthcare experience

Desired:

Information security training and education program development
Experience presenting to executive audiences
Advisory committee leadership

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Beaumont Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer position.

The Chief Information Security Officer is a senior IT leadership role with enterprise responsibility and accountability for the IT Cyber Security team. Working within a “greenfield” environment, the CISO will lead a team to ensure IT governance and policies and procedures are enacted and will also partner closely with the CTO to help ensure infrastructure security.

Beaumont Health, Michigan’s largest health care system with eight hospitals and 187 outpatient sites, has received national recognition, including U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Hospitals” list.

Key Network Indicators:

38,000 employees
5,000 physicians
3,429 total beds
$4.4 billion total net revenue

Chief Information Security Officer Position Description:

Beaumont’s Chief Information Security Officer is a senior member of the IT leadership team and reports to the Executive Vice President/CIO. This is a very collaborative and operational position with dual reporting to Compliance. Compliance is responsible for privacy and policy violations. The CISO will lead a team to ensure IT governance and policies and procedures are enacted and will also partner closely with the CTO to help ensure infrastructure security.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree
Track record of establishing IT Cyber Security as an enabler and differentiator
Approximately 10 years of experience overseeing IT Cyber Security in a complex environment
Healthcare experience preferred (including peripheral industries)
Strong communication skills and the ability to present to the board and interface with other executives both within and outside of the organization
Strong leadership skills of approximately 4 years having led teams of at least 15 individuals
Advanced degree preferred

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Carilion Clinic has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Enterprise Architect position.

The Enterprise Architect leads efforts for producing solutions for organizational initiatives, requiring new technologies in this fast-paced organization. The Enterprise Architect, focusing on delivering signature-ready, actionable recommendations to leaders, will also lead the information technology architecture, solutions, and IT innovation functions of Carilion Health Systems to the desired organization vision and targeted outcomes.

Carilion Clinic, a nationally recognized not-for-profit healthcare system in Roanoke, Virginia, serves approximately one million residents in Western Virginia through their comprehensive network of hospitals, primary and specialty physician practices, and other complementary services. With 696 employed physicians representing more than 76 specialties, the healthcare system seeks to advance care through medical education and research.

Key Network Indicators:

$1.7 billion (net) total revenue
12,800 employees
1,026 licensed beds
50,399 admissions

Enterprise Architect Position Description:

The Enterprise Architect helps leaders enable their future-state capabilities that will drive Carilion’s targeted outcomes through the choice of programs, projects, and initiatives the organization chooses to invest in. The Enterprise Architect must be capable of practically applying existing, new, and emerging technologies to evolving organizational models. Conversely, they must be able to understand, monetize, and operationalize new technologies.

Qualifications

Candidates should be highly collaborative and supportive of ideals and strategies, be unflappable in the face of opposition to architectural ideals, and be practical and principle based in their decision making approach and problem solving abilities.

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in business, computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, system analysis or a related field of study, or equivalent experience
Five or more years of experience in information technology in complex organizations
Healthcare technology experience

Desired:

Master’s degree

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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

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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Southcoast Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer position.

Under the general direction of the Senior Vice President CIO for Southcoast Health System, the Chief Information Security Officer will perform a wide variety of duties including establishing, implementing, monitoring, and enforcing information security standards enterprise-wide.

Southcoast Health is a community based health delivery system with multiple access points, offering an integrated continuum of health services throughout Southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island. It includes the three hospitals that make up Southcoast Hospitals Group.

Key Network Indicators:

815 beds
650 physicians
7,500 employees
$989 million operating revenue

Southcoast Hospitals Group:

Charlton Memorial Hospital in Fall River
St.Luke’s Hospital in New Bedford
Tobey Hospital in Wareham

Position Description:

The CISO will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of enterprise-wide information security strategies. This position will oversee the creation and maintenance of information security policy, leads on-going security risk assessments and status reporting efforts and is responsible for the creation and roll-out of security awareness and training programs.

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business or related field
Master’s Degree preferred
Substantial and directly related information security skills and experience may substitute for some education
7-10 years of IT related management experience in a complex healthcare environment
Strong understanding of IT security threats and preventative measures, disaster management and techniques and technologies and IT related security laws, regulations and guidelines are required. Must work well with and in teams
Advanced computer technical skills are required to understand the complex IT infrastructure in the enterprise
Ability to lead through influence

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Seattle Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their Senior Director, Enterprise Clinical Systems position.

The Senior Director, Enterprise Clinical Systems will play a key role in the aggressive timeline of the hospital’s integrated electronic health record implementation and lead four different departments and a team of approximately 100 individuals.

Seattle Children’s Hospital serves as the pediatric and adolescent academic medical center for Washington, Alaska, Montana and Idaho – the largest region of any children’s hospital in the country. Seattle Children’s is currently involved in multiple construction projects, including additions to the hospital, new research buildings, and a new build out for IT, located in downtown Seattle.

Key Network Indicators

429,255 patient visits
403 licensed beds
7,282 employees

Senior Director, Enterprise Clinical Systems Position Description:

The Senior Director of Enterprise Clinical Systems leads the strategic implementation and operational support of a fully integrated electronic health record (EHR) to support the mission of Hope, Care, and Cure at Seattle Children’s. This position will manage the CIS (Clinical Information Systems) team, the Patient Access and Revenue Cycle Team (PARC) team, HIM and Enterprise Imaging. Seattle Children’s currently has Cerner clinical applications for both ambulatory and inpatient and integrated EHR revenue cycle and patient access applications. With a new CIO in place, the IT team is moving forward with major initiatives and change management skills are imperative.

Responsibilities:

Manage four departments with a total team of approximately 100 people
Provide mentorship and leadership to the four direct reports
Lead departmental change management as well as with the organization as the integrated electronic health record implementation progresses
Provide program and project direction

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree- Master’s preferred
Experience leading large scale implementation of a major EHR-Epic preferred
Over eight years of IT management experience
Academic or children’s hospital expertise preferred

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Hackensack Meridian Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify, and present individuals for their VP IT Infrastructure and Operations position.

The VP IT Infrastructure and Operations is a leadership role that is accountable for the totality of IT infrastructure and operations (I&O) across Hackensack Meridian Health. The VP of I&O is responsible for implementing and running next-generation information technology infrastructure and for world class delivery of all third-party and internally managed information technology infrastructure used for all clinical, research, and business processes across the enterprise.

Hackensack Meridian Health, located in Edison, New Jersey is the state’s largest, most comprehensive and most integrated network that includes 16 hospitals.

Key Network Indicators:

33,000 Team Members
6,500 Physicians
4,520 Beds
2017 Most Wired: Advanced

Position Description:

The VP IT Infrastructure and Operations is an inspirational leader with deep technical infrastructure experience, strong project management acumen, excellent vendor management skills, plus a superior, service-first-oriented approach to infrastructure operations. The VP IT Infrastructure and Operations is also responsible for operational and service management processes to ensure quality, efficiency and agility goals are achieved. As a member of the IT senior leadership team, the role will contribute to the development and execution of the enterprise wide IT strategy, and ensure it aligns with Hackensack Meridian Health’s strategy and delivery capabilities.

Responsibilities

Drive the I&O department to embrace next generation technology that supports the innovative DNA of Hackensack Meridian Health.
Works with HR and the IT leadership team to develop an I&O “people strategy” that aligns with the enterprise and IT strategy. Continually looks for leading-edge and innovative solutions to the recruitment, development and retention of the I&O workforce.
Forecasts future skill needs to acquire and develop an IT workforce with the appropriate mix of business knowledge, technical skills and competencies that balance between growing the agility required to achieve digital business objectives and ensuring the core IT functions are reliable, stable, and efficient.
Sets the mission and vision of the I&O department to foster a service-oriented culture and mindset driven by continual service improvement techniques.
Leads the development of the I&O roadmap, and ensures its integration with the overall IT and enterprise strategic plans.
Works with the IT senior leadership team on the service portfolio and governance required to prioritize resources.
Acts as a trusted advisor, and builds and maintains relationships with other IT leaders and Hackensack Meridian Health executives to develop a clear understanding of enterprise needs; ensures cost-effective delivery of IT services to meet those needs, and is able to respond with agility to changing industry priorities.
Develops the annual operating and capital expenditure budget for I&O to ensure it is consistent with overall strategic objectives of IT and the enterprise and is within plan.
Leverages influencing and negotiation skills across IT and the enterprise to enable cost-effective and innovative shared solutions in achievement of enterprise goals.
Participates in the assessment of external and internal technology capabilities required to achieve desired competitive positioning.
Maintains currency on new technologies and platforms and provides direction on what emerging technologies should be assimilated, integrated and introduced within I&O to ensure IT capabilities respond to the needs of the enterprise’s strategy.
Maintains an active I&O sunset strategy for outmoded technology.
Champions I&O involvement in the IT organization’s innovation efforts and its role in experimenting with new solutions to take advantage of industry opportunities.
Provides strategic direction and oversight for the operation and support of IT systems that fulfill the needs of the enterprise, including the full life cycle of infrastructure operations and IT service support.
Directs the development of I&O sourcing strategy and provides executive participation in strategic vendor and partner relationship management.
Serves on IT planning and policymaking committees; drives the development of enterprise technology standards, governance processes and performance metrics to ensure I&O delivers value to the enterprise.
Provides leadership, coaching and direction to the I&O leadership team and staff.

Required:

A graduate or postgraduate degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a closely related technology field.
15 or more years of experience in IT.
Five years of leadership responsibilities.
Preferably five or more years of experience in large, cross-functional teams influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders effectively across the organization and within complex contexts.
Demonstrated experience in strategic planning, organization design and development.
Preferably proven experience or demonstrated capability in leading IT transformational initiatives in complex and dynamic environments.