UMC Health System has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Director, Clinical Informatics Position.
Organization Overview
For more than 30 years, UMC Health System has pioneered better healthcare in the Lubbock region. Today, their Centers of Excellence – the UMC Trauma Center, the Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center, the Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center, the UMC Children’s Hospital and the UMC Heart Center – are nationally recognized for the quality and sophistication of the specialized care they provide. UMC is the primary teaching hospital for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, where today’s leading experts are training the doctors and nurses of tomorrow. Because of this partnership, they deliver technically sophisticated healthcare that ranks alongside the best in the nation. UMC benefits the health, welfare and economy of the entire region.
Director, Clinical Informatics Position Highlights
Reporting to the Senior VP & CIO, the Director of IT Clinical Informatics will possess clinical informatics expertise, leadership experience, and project management skills. The Director will provide leadership that promotes inter-professional collaboration and integrates clinical practice knowledge and electronic health record principles. The Director supports internal clients to help change the electronic documentation, clinical workflow, and the use of technology in all phases of the healthcare continuum to promote clinical quality and patient safety. This position will manage 6 direct reports and about 30 indirect reports.
Nationwide Children’s has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Director of Information Services-Epic Position.
Organization Overview
Nationwide Children’s is creating the future of pediatric health care. Nationwide Children’s is America’s third largest pediatric health care and research center and delivers care to more than one million patients each year. Families travel from around the nation and around the globe to access life-saving treatments – many unavailable anywhere else. Nationwide Children’s has 68 facilities extending out across Ohio and beyond. Their doctors and researchers are revolutionizing children’s health and the health of future generations.
Director of Information Services-Epic Position Highlights
This position is the opportunity to serve in a key leadership role with a prestigious Children’s Hospital. The organization is financially secure, with $1.6 billion in reserves. They are heavily involved in research and genomics, which allows the Director of Epic to be involved in data analytics. All of Epic, including the clinical systems, revenue cycle, interfaces as well as physician practices will be part of this director’s responsibility. The position reports directly to the CIO and is one of 7 directors in Information Systems. The organization sees this as an extremely important position for where they are heading. The IS EHR Director is responsible for the overall direction of all Electronic Health Record systems, interfaces and associated systems and applications.
Lehigh Valley Health Network has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Information Officer Position.
Organization Overview
Lehigh Valley Health Network is among seven of the nation’s leading health systems that have formed an interstate consortium called AllSpire that will address quality, population health management, best practices, innovation and excellence. LVHN is a complex, progressive integrated delivery health system located in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Chief Information Officer Position Highlights
The Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer (SVP/CIO) position oversees all information technology aspects of Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN). The SVP/CIO provides the leadership and vision for the information technology organization in support of the clinical, research, academic and administrative functions of the enterprise. They will be going live with Epic inpatient in early August, following a very successful ambulatory implementation last March. This position reports to the CEO of LVHN and is an active member of the senior leadership team. They are looking for this SVP/CIO to be a strategic leader to plan and lead the future direction of IT.
Rady Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Director of IT, Research, Genomics & Systems Medicine 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.
Director of IT, Research, Genomics & Systems Medicine Position Highlights
The primary responsibility of the Director of IT — Research, Genomics and Systems Medicine will be to lead the IT initiatives supporting the Rady Pediatric Genomics and Systems Medicine Institute and to facilitate and coordinate actions by all departments in Rady Children’s Information Management Division in support of Institute researchers and clinical translation programs. The position presents an opportunity for the right person to be one of the nation’s most highly visible and premier children’s hospital IT genomics research directors
The University of Tennessee Medical Center has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Director, Application and Integration Position.
Organization Overview
The University of Tennessee Medical Center is the region’s only academic medical center, Magnet® recognized hospital and Level I Trauma Center. The 581-bed hospital also is home of the region’s only dedicated Heart Hospital, only adult and pediatric transplant center, a Joint Commission/ American Heart Association recognized Comprehensive Stroke Center, houses the region’s only Level III private room neonatal intensive care unit and serves as a regional perinatal center. Its six Centers of Excellence provide comprehensive care to patients.
Director, Application and Integration Position Highlights
The Director of Application & Integration is a key position on the IT leadership team, responsible for development, leadership and management of the Application and Integration group, as well as the Systems team. The Director’s role includes planning, coordinating, and leading activities related to the technical evaluation of the commercial, clinical, and financial application systems.
Cooper’s Health Systems has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their AVP, Applications Position.
Organization Overview
Cooper’s Health Sciences Campus has pedestrian-friendly streets that link Cooper University Hospital, Three Cooper Plaza, the Coriell Institute parking garages and community parks. Cooper University Medical School of Rowan University and MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper are the newest additions to the campus.
AVP, Applications Position Highlights
The AVP of Applications will provide overall leadership and direction to the application staff of the IT department. The AVP will plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the design, development, and implementation of organizational information systems and software applications, including Epic.
Lifespan has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their VP / Chief Information Security Officer Position.
Organization Overview
Lifespan, Rhode Island’s first health system was founded in 1994 by Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital. A comprehensive, integrated, academic health system affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Lifespan’s present partners also include Rhode Island Hospital’s pediatric division, Hasbro Children’s Hospital, Bradley Hospital, Newport Hospital, and Gateway Healthcare. A not-for-profit organization, Lifespan is overseen by a board of volunteer community leaders who are guided by its mission to improve the health status of the people it serves in Rhode Island and New England through the provision of customer friendly, geographically accessible and high value services.
VP / Chief Information Security Officer Position Highlights
Under the general direction of the Senior VP/CIO, the Chief Information Security Officer directs development, implementation, and oversight of Lifespan’s information technology security infrastructure in compliance with industry best practices and federal and state regulations. Responsibilities include developing information security strategy and implementation plans, as well as policies and procedures related to patient health information and all other confidential information in electronic form. The CISO provides leadership in development, management, control, and security assessment of all Lifespan systems include legacy applications, new applications, data centers, local area networks, wide area networks, firewall/proxy servers, telecommunications systems, service desk, technology centers and facility infrastructure.
The University of Maryland Medical System has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Information Security Officer Position.
Organization Overview
The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) was created in 1984 when the state-owned University Hospital became a private, nonprofit organization. It has evolved into a multi-hospital system with academic, community and specialty service missions reaching every part of the state and beyond. The University of Maryland Medical System is one of the largest private, nonprofit health care providers in the mid-Atlantic region. UMMS is a national and regional referral center for trauma, cancer care, neurocare, cardiac care, women’s and children’s health and physical rehabilitation. It also has one of the world’s largest kidney transplant programs, as well as scores of other programs that improve the physical and mental health of thousands of people daily.
Chief Information Security Officer Position Highlights
The UMMS Director of Information Technology Security and Chief Information Security Officer leads the information security function for the University of Maryland Medical System and its Affiliates (Medical System). Working in concert with Corporate Compliance, Office of General Counsel, Internal Audit, Human Resources, Finance, and Information Services and Technology personnel the Director shall be accountable for the design, implementation, oversight, management and delivery of the UMMS Information Security Plan, strategies and processes. The Information Security department encompasses the coordination of secure information and in many forms, including computer and network based information, imaging, dictation systems, voice mail, electronic mail, or any other representation of information within the University of Maryland Medical System. The department also performs tasks associated with assigning and monitoring appropriate levels of computer access, drafts, facilitates implementation of and enforces information security-related policies, procedures and controls and ensures all information security issues are addressed and meet compliance standards. This position functions as the key operational leader of Information Technology Security practices, policies and methodologies for Medical System. The level of responsibility is system-wide and does not include the university, though the CISO will collaborate with university security personnel. The position reports to the VP of Technology – currently a consultant from Huntzinger – and manages a team of several security analysts and 2 security engineers.
Organization Overview
Southern Illinois Healthcare is the premier hospital system in Southern Illinois and consists of three hospitals. The largest hospital, Memorial Hospital of Carbondale, is a 153-bed acute care facility and the regional referral center for southern Illinois. It features tertiary care such as vascular, neurology and a Top 100 cardiac program, Prairie Heart Institute. Herrin Hospital features all modern surgical and patient care areas, an eight-bed ICU with house wide telemetry, 117-beds, all-digital imaging and archiving, and a 24-hour hospitalist program. It is home to nationally acclaimed acute rehabilitation through an alliance with the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. St. Joseph Memorial Hospital, is the only SIH hospital to have a Catholic affiliation, and serves as a critical access hospital in Murphysboro, Illinois. St. Joseph is one of six hospitals nationwide named a 2011 and 2012. In addition to the three system hospitals, IT provides support to two other hospitals on a contract basis.
Position Highlights
This Chief Innovation Officer will direct the information technology department to continue working towards the industry’s best IT practices. The major IT system is Meditech. The CIO departed in November and an interim CIO is in place and is not interested in relocation from his home area.
Organization Overview
Asante, headquartered in beautiful Medford, Oregon, is a locally owned and governed, not-for-profit health system that serves more than 580,000 residents in nine southern Oregon and northern California counties. A volunteer board of directors comprised of local physicians and community leaders governs Asante. The organization’s mission is simple: “Asante exists to provide quality healthcare services in a compassionate manner, valued by the communities we serve.” Five values guide the heart of Asante: excellence, respect, honesty, service and teamwork. These words, defined, embraced, and demonstrated by more than 4,500 employees, guide the system as it continually strives to deliver the most innovative high-quality healthcare available. Asante offers employees extremely competitive wages and benefit packages, but above and beyond that, an opportunity to truly make a difference for the residents they serve in our community. Asante is comprised of three hospitals: Asante Ashland Community Hospital, Asante Rouge Regional Medical Center and Asante Three Rivers Medical Center.
Position Highlights
The Director of Technical Services is responsible for overall operations of computing and communications (voice and data) technology functions throughout all Asante entities. Responsibilities also include the proactive assessment of systems infrastructure requirements and the development and maintenance of the necessary infrastructure. Specific areas of responsibility include: Network Services, Telecommunications, Operations, Help Desk, Desktop and Field Support, Clinical Engineering and Information Security. The Director plays a leadership role in the development of the organization’s strategic information technology plans for the enterprise. Directs a customer-oriented team of professionals who are responsible for providing a responsive and efficient image of Asante Health System.
