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Albany Med Health System has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Vice President of IT Clinical Systems.

Albany Med Health System is a four-hospital system and the only regionally governed, not-for-profit health system serving three million people in northeastern New York and western New England.

Comprised of Albany Medical Center, Columbia Memorial Health, Glens Falls Hospital, and Saratoga Hospital, the Albany Med Health System has a century-long tradition caring for its communities.

Albany Med Health System has 1,520 hospital beds, more than 800 physicians, 125 outpatient locations, and is supported by a longstanding affiliation with the Albany Visiting Nurses, providing services to patients of all the System hospitals.

The hospitals, physicians’ practice offices, and urgent care centers of the Albany Med Health System retain their own unique identities for the communities they serve. Each hospital maintains its own name, leadership, employees, board and fundraising team.

Albany Med Health System is Northeastern New York’s only academic medical center and the centerpiece of medicine, research, and medical education in the region and one of the area’s largest private employers.

Albany Med Health System incorporates the 766-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital and Albany Medical College, which trains the next generation of doctors, scientists and other healthcare professionals. Albany Medical College is the 19^th oldest medical school in the country. The college includes a biomedical research enterprise and the region’s largest physicians practice with 500 doctors.

During 2020, Albany Med Health System researchers received more than 250 grants totaling more than $20 million to study numerous conditions, including the novel coronavirus.

Albany Med includes:

Regional Trauma Center
Regional AIDS Treatment Center
Regional Resource Center
Region’s most sophisticated Emergency Department
Air medical transport service (LifeNet)
Region’s only kidney and pancreas transplant program
Children’s Hospital, including peds and neonatal ICUs, and the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Disorders

Vice President of IT Clinical Systems Position Overview

The Vice President of IT Clinical Systems is a senior executive providing leadership for the development, management and integration of information and technologies necessary to support the mission, strategies, objectives and goals of the Albany Med Health System.

Reporting to the System CIO and working as a collaborative partner with senior leader colleagues, the VP will oversee and coordinate the day-to-day operations of the information technology systems for Albany Med Health System, including:

Application implementation and support
Operations
Transformation coincident with a full-scale system wide continuous health record (CHR) deployment

Upon completion of a system-wide implementation, the VP will oversee the full CHR portfolio and that working team.

The incumbent is a leader of the transformation program officer/structure and will work with the System CIO, the overall transformational leadership, the IT management committee and other leadership teams as necessary to understand and influence information technology direction.

The VP will routinely report progress work at the IT board committee and other board committees as requested. Through these forums and other less formal interactions and relationships,the VP will develop and foster a culture of responsive customer-oriented services and internal accountability, as well as create teams that are people-perceptive, technically gifted,and have a sound understanding of business sand clinical processes.

The position has direct responsibility for the Technology CHR transformation team. The VP will teach, advocate, and mentor managers and staff on how to apply standards, tools, and methodologies while delivering high quality business focused customer service.

Key critical relationships include the system chief medical informatics officer, system chief nursing informatics officer and many executive colleagues.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics or equivalent.
Successful history of planning, implementing and supporting systems in a complex, academic health care environment.
Experience implementing a CHR across a scaled, multi-hospital integrated delivery network is required, including either Epic or Cerner Millennium as the key vendor.
Proven leadership experience in an academic health system/integrated delivery system.
A solid business orientation and strong, credible executive record in healthcare and information systems delivery.

Preferred:

Master’s degree in business, engineering, or health/public administration.
Experience implementing a CHR in an affiliated rather than merged organization.

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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.

Hospital for Special Surgery has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director of Network Infrastructure.

Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) is the world’s leading academic medical center focused on musculoskeletal health. HSS medical staff includes hundreds of experts from diverse specialties, including joint replacement, spine care, sports medicine, and rheumatology.

Founded in 1863, HSS is the oldest orthopedic hospital in the United States. More than 32,000 surgical procedures are performed annually, including more hip surgeries and knee replacements than any other hospital in the United States. The global standard total knee replacement was developed at HSS in 1969.

The HSS Rehabilitation Network comprises over 170 independently owned physical and occupational therapy practices throughout New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Florida.

The HSS Research Institute comprises 20 laboratories and 300 staff members, focused on leading the advancement of musculoskeletal health through the prevention of degeneration, tissue repair, and tissue regeneration.

The HSS Innovation Institute was formed in 2016 to realize the potential of new drugs, therapeutics, and devices.

The HSS Education Institute is the world’s leading provider of education on musculoskeletal health, with an online learning platform that offers more than 600 courses to more than 21,000 medical professional members worldwide.

HSS eAcademy is a digital education platform for professionals with over 30,152 members from over 130 countries.

HSS Global collaborates with medical centers and other organizations to advance the quality and value of musculoskeletal care and to make world-class HSS care more widely accessible nationally and internationally.

Senior Director of Network Infrastructure Position Overview

The Senior Director of Network Infrastructure is a key member of the HSS IT leadership team. Reporting to the CTO, the Senior Director is a highly influential role, making investment and priority trade-off decisions, as well as negotiating and managing vendor contracts.

The Senior Director is a forward-looking technology leader who can not only develop an infrastructure strategy but also drive it through to execution and support.

This senior leader will be responsible for delivering high-quality, reliable technology while also developing a strategic plan for world-class digital transformation.

The Senior Director will lead strategic planning for aligning network and voice/data technology with the digital transformation strategy, including omnichannel communications (IVR tech, contact center, pilot w/ Google), customer engagement (texts, voice improvements, video, etc.), and reporting and analytics on those touchpoints.

The Senior Director will also recruit, retain, and develop a high-performing team. Currently, the team is tightly-knit, well-functioning, and comprised of 14 people overseeing:

Cloud-based and on-prem data and voice services
Unified communications
Local and wide-area network infrastructure

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree required
Master’s degree preferred

Experience/Background:

A minimum of 10 years of experience in technology leadership positions with an emphasis on infrastructure services
A strong technical background as a data and/or voice network engineer
Substantial experience leading, directing and controlling a complex, highly technical network operation or organization
Demonstrated knowledge of current and emerging technologies and the ability to apply those technologies to business needs
A track record of working collaboratively and productively with business partners
Additionally, the well-qualified candidate will have a great service orientation, a strong executive presence, an engaging personality, and be a visionary technologist.

Please note that candidates must live in or relocate to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut or another location where they can commute to the HSS campus.

For more information about the organization, the Senior Director of Network Infrastructure position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

MedAllies has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Vice President, Business Development.

MedAllies is an innovative, rapidly growing national health information service provider, and a leader in advancing the use of health information technology to connect providers in real time to improve patient care. With deep expertise in leveraging secure information exchange, MedAllies enables providers to securely, accurately and instantly transfer and share vital patient information among clinicians. MedAllies touches real people at the nexus of high tech and high touch, providing the most advanced nationwide digital pathway doctors and other providers need to provide the best care.

As one of the ONC Direct Reference Implementation vendors, MedAllies has provided Direct services since the Direct Project’s inception. It operates a leading national Direct network and offers MedAllies Direct Solutions™, which provides a secure, scalable, standards-based way for participants to send authenticated, encrypted personal health information to providers, across the street or across the continent.

Reporting to the CEO, the Vice President, Business Development leads the execution of the business development plan and new business and go to market strategy.

Qualifications

MedAllies seeks a Vice President, Business Development with excellent time management, communication, decision-making, human relations, and organizational skills. A successful candidate will be able to react to change productively and be a team player that can build long term value-based relationships. He/she must thrive in a start-up work environment with multiple high-level priorities.

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree in Sales or Marketing
7+ years of experience in healthcare product business development
Demonstrated ability to network within the community and industry that will produce deals
Strong experiences in prospecting and demonstrating software solutions
Solid technical background with conversational knowledge of clinical terms

For more information about the organization, the Vice President, Business Development position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

MedAllies has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for their next Chief Technology Officer.

MedAllies is an innovative, rapidly growing national healthcare consulting firm that focuses on: clinical practice and health system transformation, connecting providers as a health information service provider, and developing software which enables thousands of healthcare providers and organizations to provide efficient and effective patient care. MedAllies has $12 million in revenue with 51 employees.

MedAllies clients include:

Electronic Health Record vendors
Hospitals and Health systems
Integrated delivery networks
Physician practices
Health care communities
State and Federal Governments
Health IT vendors

Chief Technology Officer Position Overview:

The Chief Technology Officer is a top IT position that will oversee a staff of 15 people that includes the software development group.

The Chief Technology Officer has overall responsibility for the long-range direction of technological planning and development in order to attain MedAllies’ strategic goals.

This position reports to the CEO and is responsible for developing and implementing technology strategy to include the planning, implementation, management, administration, security and technical support of IT across departments.

The CTO will evaluate current disaster recovery and ensure a robust plan is in place.

Qualifications:

Healthcare experience, preferably with a vendor
Ability to set a strategic direction and investigate ways to mature the IT organization in areas like Cloud
Software development
Agile experience
Great communication skills
Flexible and reliable
Comfortable in a fast-paced environment
Bachelor’s degree
3-5 years in a similar role, 15 years of IT experience

For more information about the organization, position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

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

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

Reporting directly to the CEO, the Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer is responsible for oversight and management of the MedAllies Security and Accreditation Programs (including information security, training and physical security), recurring third-party security and compliance audits.

MedAllies is a rapidly growing national healthcare consulting firm in Fishkill, New York. The firm focuses on clinical practice and health system transformation, connecting providers as a health information service provider and develops software which enables thousands of healthcare providers and organizations to provide efficient and effective patient care.

Key Network Indicators:

6,000 health care organizations
200,000 Direct users
51 employees

Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer Position Description:

This opportunity will let you use your experience and knowledge to further develop leading security initiatives in this growing organization working with nationally known leaders in healthcare. MedAllies is an exciting place to work where you can learn new technologies and design security operations in the healthcare sector. It is a fast and innovative organization and the Security and Compliance Officer must be able to balance industry strength security with business operations.

Qualifications

The ideal Chief Information Security and Compliance Officer would have an understanding of HIPAA security, and understanding of industry standards/regulations such as ISO, NIST, GDPR, and healthcare specifications such as ENHAC and HITRUST.

Bachelor’s degree required in computer science, information systems, or equivalent experience (Master’s preferred)
CISSP certification required
At least 5-10 years in the healthcare information security field, with risk management preferred
Must have working knowledge of HIPAA, ISO, and HITRUST
Must be able to communicate security-related concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff, including senior leadership
Must have experience with business continuity planning, auditing, and risk management
Experience in defining standards, guidelines, best practices related to risk management, and identity management
Ability to to troubleshoot complex problems related to security, risk management, and resolve issues quickly identifying the best option in an emergency situation

For more information about the organization, position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar) or click here.

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.

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Westchester Medical Center Health Network has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Medical Information Officer position.

Organization Overview:

Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMC) is a 1,700 bed regional medical system with 10 hospitals on eight campuses headquartered in Valhalla, New York.

WMC Facilities:

Westchester Medical Center
Behavioral Health Center
Bon Secours Community Hospital
Good Samaritan Hospital
HealthAlliance-Broadway Campus
HealthAlliance-Mary’s Avenue Campus
Margaretville Hospital
Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
MidHudson Regional Hospital
St. Anthony Community Hospital

CMIO Position Description:

The Chief Medical Information Officer (CMIO) is responsible for leading the efforts to build, validate and implement the physician-related components of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) at Westchester Medical Center Health. Across the entire system (utilizing multiple EHRs), this individual will work closely with senior management and medical leadership to provide clinical information systems. The CMIO will be involved with inpatient, ambulatory, and ancillary systems across 10 hospitals and multi ambulatory settings. This is a new position reporting to the CIO. The organization is viewing the CMIO as integral in the organization providing outstanding patient care.

Responsibilities:

The CMIO will support the multi-entity clinical information system programs and is responsible for providing leadership for the strategic planning, management, integration and 2
implementation of clinical information systems and technology. The CMIO will manage to coordination of knowledge-driven care and quality programs with technology solutions. The individual in this position will provide the clinical perspective and leadership for the strategic planning, development, implementation, support and management of clinical systems. The CMIO educates, involves and supports physicians and other users of clinical information regarding the purposes and functions of the WMCHealth information systems. The CMIO will work closely with others in the implementation of a new EHR in four hospitals and many ambulatory settings. The CMIO will work with physicians using many systems including Epic, Meditech, Paragon, eClinicalworks and Cerner Invision. The individual will help sell the vision and work collaboratively across the entire health system. The CMIO will be part of the IT steering committee and work closely with the CMO for the organization and partner with the CNO and nursing.

Qualifications:

Required:

Medical Degree (M.D. or D.O.)
Licensed physician with at least eight years of practice experience
EHR implementation experience

Desired:

EHR optimization experience
Possesses good grasp clinical work flow in both inpatient and outpatient settings
Able to develop flexible, transferable models for pathways of care
Experience in clinical outcomes and quality management
Experience in routine use of clinical information systems for patient care
Successful experience with implementation of healthcare applications
Sound understanding of technical issues and ability to explain them to peers and users
Commitment to the use of technology to improve and positively affect patient care
Be viewed as credible and visionary and able to produce results
Experience with innovation
Training in medical administration, informatics or public health
Academic system background
Integration background
Expertise in data analytics and population health
Strong industry involvement and recognition

Westchester Medical Center Health Network has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Project Director position.

Organization Overview:

Westchester Medical Center Health Network (WMC) is a 1,700 bed regional medical system with 10 hospitals on eight campuses headquartered in Valhalla, New York.

WMC Facilities:

- Westchester Medical Center
- Behavioral Health Center
- Bon Secours Community Hospital
- Good Samaritan Hospital
- HealthAlliance-Broadway Campus
- HealthAlliance-Mary’s Avenue Campus
- Margaretville Hospital
- Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital
- MidHudson Regional Hospital
- St. Anthony Community Hospital

Project Director Position Overview:

The Project Director is a new position and will be responsible for the successful implementation of a new Electronic Health Record (EHR) at four hospitals. Serving in the role for the life of the project, and reporting to the CIO, the Project Director will be involved in coordinating and facilitating meetings, managing issue resolution and risk mitigation strategies, and closely managing the project implementation plan to ensure timely delivery of project milestones. Once this major project is completed, the position will project lead other major initiatives within the enterprise system.
Currently, the organization has multiple vendors including Epic, Paragon, Meditech, Cerner Invision and eClinicalworks. As a recently formed system, there are many overlapping and redundant IT solutions. As a starting point, the EHR systems at 4 hospitals, including the flagship hospital, WMC, as well as the ambulatory system will be replaced. The vendor selection is not yet finalized. These four hospitals are “thirsty” for a new system and are looking for a strong, project oriented leader to move the process forward.

Responsibilities:

Manage the EHR project
• Ensure on-time, on-budget and on-scope delivery of the project
• Train and mentor the project teams on standard processes
• Manage the clinical transformation process in a system-wide collaborative effort

Duties will also include Project Integration Management and will require the individual to work collaboratively with the selected vendor to develop the project management plan. This position will also have budgetary responsibilities, and be responsible for change management and change control.

Qualifications:

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree
Healthcare IT experience

Desired:

Master’s degree
Academic system experience
Certification in one or more EHR vendor applications
Extensive experience leading an implementation team for an enterprise-wide EHR system within a multi-hospital system
5 or more years of experience leading large scale, complex EHR implementations
Knowledge of core IT technology areas and implementation processes for network infrastructure, security/compliance, servers, applications, data center operations, etc.
Proven ability to organize and manage a project from initiation to implementation
Demonstrated experience leading and facilitating multi-disciplinary groups
Excellent project management, change management, written and verbal skills
Ability to work effectively with a diversity of personalities and build consensus
Politically savvy leader with a high tolerance for ambiguity and can work successfully with people at all levels within the organization
Strong manager who is adaptable and has strong collaborative management style, creative thinker with high energy and enthusiasm, and team player