Grady Health System has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Executive Director of Technology Position.
Organization Overview
Grady Health System is one of the largest public health systems in the United States and has been serving the city of Atlanta since 1892. The hospital has the region’s premier Level I Trauma Center as well as best in class burn and stroke care.
Grady’s physicians, who are on the faculties of Emory and Morehouse medical schools, provide Grady patients with unparalleled care in specialties like cancer, urology, cardiology, neurology, and chronic disease. Grady also provides family medicine and senior care. Grady has a staff of about 5,800 employees, 953 beds and numerous ambulatory locations throughout Atlanta and the surrounding area.
Executive Director of Technology Position Highlights
The Executive Director of Technology is responsible for planning, implementation and management of technology services consisting of data center, server, storage, network, telecom, information security, PC/desktop support and helpdesk. Responsibilities include:
Supporting all technology aspects of 24×7 operation
Developing technology strategies to support organization and IT strategy
Managing maintenance of technology and equipment (e.g. software and hardware) to enable minimal disruption to business operations
Hiring, developing and retaining talent to support an effective technology environment
Effectively communicating to administration and customers
Developing relationships within IT and the customer base
Creating a technology environment to achieve acceptable uptime levels
Designing and implementing technologies to support new projects/initiatives
Managing team performance and productivity standards and taking action as necessary
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field
Five years’ experience managing technology teams
Strong technical acumen with proven experience developing system architecture and the design of high availability systems
Excellent communication and leadership skills; highly collaborative
Valley Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Technology Officer Position.
Organization Overview
Based in Winchester, Virginia, Valley Health is composed of six core hospitals:
Hampshire Memorial Hospital
Page Memorial Hospital
Shenandoah Memorial Hospital
War Memorial Hospital
Warren Memorial Hospital
Winchester Medical Center
The health system has 5,300 Employees and 604 Inpatient beds and received Healthcare’s Most Wired designation in 2015.
Chief Technology Officer Position Highlights
The Valley Health System Director & Chief Technology Officer’s (CTO) role is to align technology vision with business strategy by integrating company processes with the appropriate technologies.
Key position responsibilities include:
Developing, implementing and maintaining technology initiatives within the organization, assuring high performance, consistency, reliability and scalability of all technology offerings.
Maintaining existing enterprise systems, while providing direction in all technology-related issues in support of information operations and core company values.
Ensuring IT security operations are performed in accordance with all security policies as defined by IT and VHS security.
Performing capacity planning, IT service level management, configuration management, data center operations as well as disaster recovery, planning and testing.
Providing overall support for on campus and off campus LAN/WAN connectivity, VoIP phone system, end-user device engineering and configuration (e.g. desktops, laptops, mobile PCs, BYOD, MDM/MAM, etc.), server systems, storage systems (including backup and recovery operations), backup, and redundancy (i.e. business continuity/high availability) for all technology systems as appropriate.
Evaluating and recommending strategies for outsourcing, “cloud sourcing” and hosting opportunities where it makes technical and economic sense for VHS.
Requirements
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field required
Master’s Degree in Technology or Business Admin preferred
Minimum 15 years’ experience in technology operations management
Minimum 10 years’ experience working in the healthcare industry
Minimum 10 years’ experience in strategic technology planning, and execution
Strong record of healthcare IT successes
Technical skills in the areas of telemedicine, security and data centers
Experience with developing relationships and building strong communication bridges
Senior executive experience with a multi-hospital system
Proven experience with transformational leadership
Atlantic Health has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Corporate Director, Health Information Management Position.
Organization Overview
Atlantic Health System is based in Morristown and is one of New Jersey’s largest and most influential non-profit healthcare systems. As a six hospital organization that maintains nearly 1,000 community-based health care provider affiliations, Atlantic Health System continuously sets the standards of quality health care and is uniquely suited to serve the needs of the New Jersey and Metropolitan New York City areas.
With over 14 thousand dedicated employees throughout the organization, Atlantic Health System is highly capable of maintaining their promise that anyone who enters their system will receive the right care, at the right quality, at the right time, at the right place and at the right cost.
Corporate Director, Health Information Management Position Highlights
The Corporate Director of HIM is a new corporate-level position at Atlantic Health System. This position will focus on standardizing HIM processes and centralizing release of information. The Corporate Director of HIM will oversee a staff of about 220 people. Candidates should possess strong change management experience working at a multi-site health system.
The Corporate Director of HIM is responsible for leadership and strategic direction, oversight, and coordination of the Health Information Management departments for a 5 hospital organization. Directs the functions which ensure the content, format, release and maintenance of health information – meeting hospital system and medical staff needs and regulatory agency requirements. Collaborates with other health care professionals to ensure appropriate measures are in place to maintain and safeguard the privacy, confidentiality, and security of patient health information. Oversees the Clinical Documentation teams at all sites. This position will have a dominant role in the Epic implementation and roll-out including standardization and centralization of ROI for the enterprise.
Requirements
Registered Health Information Administrator or Registered Health Information Technician
Minimum of 7 years experience in Health Information Management in a hospital setting with 5 of those years in progressive management
3+ years experience leading HIM in a multi-hospital setting
Proven leader with excellent human relations skills
Embraces change by being able to change focus and adapt to new enterprise strategies while encouraging development of the team and leading them to success
Knowledge of state regulations for hospital facilities preferred
Coding knowledge ICD-10
Travel between hospitals and corporate office is required
Nebraska Methodist Health System has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer Position.
Organization Overview
A leading regional integrated health care delivery system, Nebraska Methodist Health System provides quality health care and preventive services to residents throughout the Midwest. Founded in 1982 as the first health care system formed in the region, Nebraska Methodist Health System’s mission is simple: “NMHS is committed to caring for people.” The health system strives to ensure that its programs and services, and those of its affiliate corporations, are of superior value and readily available to all residents of the regions it serves. The health system includes three hospitals (Methodist Hospital, Methodist Women’s Hospital and Methodist Jennie Edmundson Hospital), 21 health clinic locations, as well as a nursing and allied health college.
Chief Information Security Officer Position Highlights
The CISO will be responsible for the development and implementation of an enterprise-wide information security program. Responsible for planning, managing, coordinating programs, and implementing strategic initiatives to preserve the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the organization’s information resources. This role interfaces with senior leadership, front-line team members, executes corporate development strategy, and drives change initiatives across the system to optimize organizational potential. Works with executive management to govern policies and procedures for information security in a matter that meets the needs of the organization’s patients, medical staff, management and employees, and establishes customer confidence in the system’s information security program.
Atlantic Health System has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Corporate Director, Patient Access Position.
Organization Overview
Atlantic Health System (“AHS”), based in Morristown, New Jersey, is one of New Jersey’s leading and most influential non-profit, integrated health care delivery systems. With more than 14,000 dedicated employees throughout the organization, Atlantic Health System is highly capable of maintaining their promise that anyone who enters their system will receive the right care, at the right quality, at the right time, at the right place and at the right cost.
Corporate Director, Patient Access Position Highlights
The Corporate Director of Patient Access is a new corporate-level position at Atlantic Health System. This position will have a high profile within the organization and will regularly meet with leadership including Senior Leadership. The immediate focus of this position, among other initiatives, will be reducing scheduling wait times and increasing point of service collections. This position will manage a team of approximately 150 people.
Hackensack University Health Network has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Technology Position.
Organization Overview
Hackensack University Health Network is the non-profit, New Jersey-based parent company of HackensackUMC, the HackensackUMC Foundation, Hackensack University HealthPartners Medical Group, and corporate joint venture partners with LHP Hospital Group in ownership of two hospitals: HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley and HackensackUMC Mountainside. With more than 9,000 employees and 2,200 credentialed medical staff members at hospitals within the Network, Hackensack University Health Network is the largest healthcare system in northern New Jersey.
Chief Technology Officer Position Highlights
This key leadership position will lead and manage all technology for the organization. The CIO is innovative and is looking for the CTO to also innovate and help move the organization forward. As a large system, they understand the need for technology to play a key role in progressive medicine. Responsibilities include: Manage, lead and mentor a team of approximately 150 people in all areas of technology from security, infrastructure, data warehouses, mobile technology, cloud, networks, and telecommunications; Set and implement (in conjunction with the CIO) a strategic technology vision; Maintain and improve customer service; Prepare for new system implementations and new organizational growth.
Organization Overview
Atlantic Health System (“AHS”), based in Morristown, New Jersey, is one of New Jersey’s leading and most influential non-profit, integrated health care delivery systems. With more than 14,000 dedicated employees throughout the organization, Atlantic Health System is highly capable of maintaining their promise that anyone who enters their system will receive the right care, at the right quality, at the right time, at the right place and at the right cost.
Position Highlights
The VP, Chief Information Officer (CIO) will work with a cross disciplinary team to develop a strategic information and technology plan and vision that will allow Atlantic Health to use technology to execute on the clinical, operational and financial goals set as a priority by the executive management team. This individual will be a visionary, insightful and inspiring executive leader, capable of attracting, retaining and retraining the appropriate team needed for the executive team to exceed its expectations. The CIO will be experienced in designing and implementing customer service operational models that have clear customer service metrics that include quality and financial targets.
The CIO must be capable of attracting, retaining and retraining a team that is highly motivated and enabling the move to a healthcare delivery model that has a 360 accountability structure. Experience is building and managing matrix teams with cross functional rewards and accountability. The CIO will lead the healthcare delivery system and the broader Clinically Integrated Network in planning and implementing enterprise information systems to support both distributed and centralized clinical and business operations to support a consumer centric and cost beneficial, value based enterprise-wide IT operations.
Mount Sinai Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their System Director, Clinical Services Position.
Organization Overview
Founded in 1919, Mount Sinai Hospital was created to serve the needs of the Chicago area. Now the Sinai Health System is comprised of 6 medical institutions that passionately serve the communities of west and southwest Chicago. The network includes: Mount Sinai Hospital, Holy Cross Hospital, Sinai Children’s Hospital, Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital, Sinai Medical Group, Sinai Community Institute and Sinai Urban Health Institute. Sinai Health System’s mission is to improve the health of the 1.5 million people who live in their diverse service area, and they aim to do so by becoming the national model for the delivery of urban healthcare. By collectively delivering a full range of high-quality outpatient and inpatient services, as well as a large number of innovative community-based health and social service programs, the members of Sinai Health System are uniquely positioned to serve their constituents while effectively working towards their mission.
System Director, Clinical Services Position Highlights
The System Director, Clinical Services, strives to improve the health of patients, families and communities by leveraging clinical information systems. This includes the use of technology in the direct provision of patient care, establishing effective clinical information systems, planning and delivering educational experiences, supporting life-long learning, and evidenced based practice. This position functions as a liaison between clinical staff and information services staff. The System Director works closely with physicians, nurses, administrators and staff to maximize efficient and effective use of the clinical information systems related to patient care, user satisfaction, clinical productivity, and quality outcomes, and ensures that the organizations clinical information systems meet all regulatory requirements. The System Director is over both the inpatient EMR, Meditech, and the ambulatory EMR, NextGen along with Enterprise Imaging Systems. The position will also oversee BioMed services and will manage a total staff of around 40 FTEs.
Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer Position.
Organization Overview
Rady Children’s Hospital is a non-profit organization that serves as the largest children’s hospital in California and the only hospital in San Diego dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare. Their mission is to restore, sustain and enhance the health and developmental potential of children through excellence in care, education, research and advocacy, and they prove their dedication to this cause by providing care to 90 percent of the region’s children. The organization is the region’s exclusive pediatric trauma center and serves over 214,000 children per year. Equipped with 520 beds and a team that consists of nearly 900 physicians, over 5,000 employees, and 500 volunteers, Rady Children’s Hospital is uniquely positioned to serve the needs of the San Diego, Imperial, and southern Riverside counties. Rady Children’s hospital is dedicated to innovation and research, and is affiliated and collaborates with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. The organization is a major pediatric clinical research center with over 500 ongoing clinical trials and research studies, and is also the region’s teaching hospital for the next generation of pediatric physicians.
Chief Information Security Officer Position Highlights
Reporting to the Chief Data Officer (CDO)/Sr. Director of Data Strategy, Security, Innovation and Business Technologies, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) provides leadership and oversight in the strategic planning, execution, and assessment of Rady Children’s Hospital information security strategies, policies, procedures and guiding practices to be implemented. With oversight from the CDO, the CISO is responsible for establishing and maintaining a comprehensive organization-wide information security program to ensure that information assets are adequately protected against current, future, internal and external threats. The CISO is responsible for developing, identifying, directing, coordinating, evaluating, and reporting on information security risks in a manner that meets compliance and regulatory requirements while enabling the organization to develop an anticipatory response to minimize information security risk and breach events. The CISO position acts as the key liaison and focal point in the organization for information security communications and projects, in
addition to operational oversight of application security for enterprise EMR and ERP applications. The CISO will manage a team of 5 information security engineers and analysts.
The Chartis Group has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Associate Principal Position.
Organization Overview
The Chartis Group is a preeminent management consulting firm with a stellar reputation for thought leadership and domain expertise in the healthcare provider industry. The firm has served many of the leading players in this space, including more than two-thirds of the nation’s “Honor Roll” academic medical centers, 7 of the top 10 healthcare systems, 4 of the 5 largest not-for-profit health systems, and 9 of the top 10 children’s hospitals. A values-based, highly collaborative organization, Chartis is committed to its mission: to materially improve the delivery of healthcare in the world.
Associate Principal Position Highlights
Senior IT PE colleagues provide leadership on multiple dimensions – thought leadership, project leadership, client leadership, people leadership and firm leadership. In collaboration with other leaders across the firm, senior IT PE colleagues will combine their knowledge, experience, skills and passion to materially improve healthcare. As thought leaders these individuals will develop innovative frameworks, methodologies and tools with broad potential application and serve as firm-wide subject matter experts. S/he will lead strategic and complex engagements and ensure deliverables and results align with the project objectives and client expectations, while building trust-based relationships with executive leadership. IT PE leaders will assist in recruiting, developing and motivating associates within the IT PE service line and on project teams. These individuals will be instrumental in generating new
