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

University Health, a comprehensive health system with a hospital and outpatient clinics, has one of two Level l trauma centers for adults and the only Level l pediatric center and burn program in South Texas.

The hospital is the primary teaching facility for the UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine, and serves as a clinical training site for nurses and other healthcare professionals.

A two million square foot, 300-bed hospital with new Women and Children’s Hospital is under construction and slated to open August 2023.

Facts and Figures

30 outpatient locations
9,000+ employees
2,400+ physicians
$2,073,255 revenue*
637,859 total community visits*
3,213 births*

*Figures based on 2019 Annual Report

Chief Medical Informatics Officer – Ambulatory Position Overview

University Health has a mature IT organization that has achieved HIMSS Level 7 and Most Wired Level 10. They had a successful go-live of Epic in July of 2020 and received the Good Install award. The IT organization is committed to supporting the continued growth of University Health while leveraging technology to support patient care.

The Chief Medical Informatics Officer – Ambulatory is a highly visible executive and medical leader who supports and promotes Epic optimization and effective use to ambulatory clinicians and administrators.

They will report to the CIO and will work in close collaboration with the CMIO – Inpatient.

The CMIO – Ambulatory will help determine which new features to install and help define strategic clinical priorities for continuous improvement. They will also encourage other clinicians to participate in the direction-setting and adoption of Epic.

This sense of community ownership should help clinicians see Epic as something they’re participating in to improve clinical workflows and clinical documentation in the care of patients.

The CMIO – Ambulatory will leverage Signal data from Epic to help ambulatory physicians become more effective and reduce ‘pajama-time’. They will also serve as a liaison between Ambulatory administration, clinicians, project governance, executive sponsors, and the Epic team for optimization, upgrades, and management of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

Culturally, University Health requires a strong commitment to:

Service excellence
Positive clinical outcomes
Cost efficiency
Performance enhancement
High business ethics

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

Medical degree and current board certification from the American Board of Medical Specialties
10+ years of experience in direct patient care
5+ years of experience as an Epic provider leader with progressive responsibilities
Direct experience in the use and management of Epic in the ambulatory setting

Preferred Education & Experience:

Epic Physician Builder
Formal training in healthcare informatics
Experience as a provider leader in hospitals, medical group practice, academic medical centers and public hospitals
Master’s degree with formal education in medical management, business administration, or public health

Licensure:

Must possess a current active and unrestricted license to practice medicine in the State of Texas.

Key Attributes:

Team player
Adaptable in a changing environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines
Strong executive presence with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization

Please note, this is a fully on-site position. No remote or hybrid candidates will be considered.

For more information about the organization, the Chief Medical Informatics Officer – Ambulatory position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

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 Margaret Cowan.

University Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Deputy CIO – Epic.

The hospital is the primary teaching facility for the UT Health San Antonio School of Medicine, and serves as a clinical training site for nurses and other healthcare professionals.

A two million square foot, 700-bed hospital with new Women and Children’s Hospital is under construction and slated to open August 2023.

Facts and Figures:

30+ outpatient locations
10,539 employees
2,783 physicians
$2,824,792,955 revenue
3,955,944 total community visits
4,038 births

Deputy CIO – Epic Position Overview

University Health has a mature IT organization that has achieved HIMSS Level 7 and Most Wired Level 10.

They had a successful go-live of Epic in July of 2020 and were the recipient of the Good Install award.

The IT organization is committed to supporting the continued growth of University Health while leveraging technology to support patient care.

The Deputy CIO – Epic provides executive leadership for the Epic EHR across the continuum of care in Acute, Ambulatory and Post-Acute domains for University Health.

The Deputy CIO will report to the SVP/CIO, Bill Phillips. They will lead a team of about 130.

The Deputy CIO delivers the strategic vision of the CIO and Executive Steering Committee by providing leadership and direction of the EMR and Epic teams within Information Services.

Culturally, University Health requires a strong commitment to:

Service excellence
Positive clinical outcomes
Cost efficiency
Performance enhancement
High business ethics

Qualifications

Required Education & Experience:

Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related field
5+ years of Epic systems experience, with 4+ years in a supervisory capacity
Expert knowledge of Epic in both Enterprise Architecture and Systems Application Development
Experienced in planning, implementation, and administration of Healthcare Information Technologies

Preferred Education & Experience:

Knowledge of ITIL and Project Management fundamentals

Key Attributes:

Team player
Adaptable in a changing environment with shifting priorities and tight deadlines
Strong executive presence with the ability to interact at all levels of the organization

Please note, this is a fully on-site position. No remote or hybrid candidates will be considered.

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

Harris Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer.

Harris Health System, a fully integrated healthcare system in Harris County, Texas, is designated by the National Committee for Quality Assurance as a Patient-Centered Medical Home and is one of the largest systems in the country to achieve the quality standard.

Harris Health system includes 17 community health centers, five same-day clinics, three multi-specialty clinic locations, a dental center, dialysis center, mobile health units, and school-based clinics, and two full-service hospitals.

Ben Taub Hospital is a world-renowned Level I trauma center with 402 licensed acute-care beds and provides a wide range of specialty care outpatient services.

Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital is a 215 licensed bed acute-care hospital with a Level III trauma center and a distinguished regional center for neonatal intensive care for high-risk deliveries.

Harris Health is a teaching system for Baylor College of Medicine, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), and The University of Houston’s Tillman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine.

Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer

As Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer, you will have the opportunity to oversee all aspects of information technology strategy for Harris Health System. As they strive to become the premier public academic healthcare system in the nation, there are opportunities for the SVP/CIO to help Harris Health System realize their vision. They are continuing to strive to improve the health of those most in need.

Reporting to the COO and working collaboratively with the Chief Health Informatics Officer and the Chief Information Security Officer, the SVP/CIO will ensure all information technology needs are identified, deployed and supported.

Harris Health System uses Epic as its EHR and the SVP/CIO will have the opportunity to use technology to improve patient care and satisfaction across the organization.

Leading a strong team of over 300 individuals, the SVP/CIO will oversee the data integrity of the system, including data centers, voice and data communication networks, and maintaining the integrity the EHR.

The organization feels that a visionary, strategic, roll-up-your-sleeves individual will be successful in their organization, as will someone who shares their vision of providing great healthcare for those with few options.

Qualifications

Education:

Master’s degree required or obtain within 3 years of hire

Required:

10+ years of experience in information technology
5+ years of senior management experience in information technology
Experience in change management
Ability to design and implement an information technology strategic plan
Experience in a complex healthcare environment

For more information about the organization, the Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer position, and the community, click the “Full Profile” link (top right sidebar).

Texas Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director of Health Technology Management.

Texas Children’s Hospital, a not-for-profit health care organization in Houston, Texas, is committed to creating a healthier future for children and women throughout the global community by leading in patient care, education, and research.

Consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation, Texas Children’s is recognized for its expertise and breakthroughs in pediatric and women’s health. Texas Children’s Hospital is also named on Newsweek’s list of World’s Best Smart Hospitals 2021.

The hospital includes:

Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute
Feigin Tower for pediatric research
Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women
Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus
Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands

The nation’s first pediatric health maintenance organization (HMO) is established by Texas Children’s.

Texas Children’s has the largest pediatric primary care network in the country, Texas Children’s Pediatrics. Their Urgent Care clinics specialize in after-hours care tailored specifically for children. The organization also has a global health program that’s channeling care to children and women all over the world.

Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a comprehensive obstetrics/gynecology facility focusing on high-risk births, has plans for a $201 million expansion in the Texas Medical Center. This phased, multi-year expansion will allow the preeminent women’s health care destination to continue providing the highest-quality care possible to those in Houston and across the country.

Director of Health Technology Management Job Overview

The Director of Health Technology Management will join a fast-moving technology department focused on driving change and digital transformation.

The Director will lead a team of two assistant directors, five managers and 50 technicians who manage over 47,000 devices within the Texas Children’s environment. This senior leader will develop consultative relationships with customer stakeholders across Texas Children’s Hospital and continue to build a service-oriented culture.

The Director of Health Technology Management will effectively direct a large multi-disciplinary biomedical engineering team while setting strategy for the Health Technology Management (HTM) department to advance the way we provide medical care to our patients.

This senior leader will strategically plan, direct and develop all areas of HTM. The Director will provide leadership to meet operational and fiscal objectives for all services provided by the department with compliance to codes and regulations to ensure the safe and efficient operations of patient-care equipment. This includes but is not limited to: preventative maintenance and repair services, professional education, refreshing technologies, clinical research support, and bring innovated advance technologies to the forefront.

This senior leader will proactively collaborate and partner with clinical, nursing, external partners, and information technology teams to ensure the HTM program continuously enhances services for the hospital system.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree in Biomedical engineering, clinical engineering, health information technology, computer science, math or electrical/mechanical engineering from an accredited university
5+ years of experience working in a healthcare environment and knowledge of healthcare delivery system models
Progressive supervisory experience in managing patient care equipment in a hospital setting

Desired:

Master’s Degree
Professional Engineer License

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

CHRISTUS Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their System Director, Information Management Health Plan and Population Health Services.

CHRISTUS Health is one of the largest Catholic health systems in North America, providing faith-based care in Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Texas, and in Mexico, Columbia, and Chile through more than 60 hospitals and clinics, and over 175 other facilities.

Sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word in Houston and San Antonio and the Sisters of the Holy Family of Nazareth, CHRISTUS’ mission is to extend the healing ministry of Jesus Christ to every individual they serve.

CHRISTUS Health is a diverse system serving with outpatient services and clinics, physician groups, insurance plans, surgery centers, and long term care services.

With the help of their communities, CHRISTUS Health focuses on four relevant and timely strategies:

Clinical integration and Population Health Management
Excellence in operational efficiency and effectiveness
Growth in the U.S.
Expansion in Latin America

System Director, Information Management Health Plan and Population Health Services Job Overview

The System Director, Information Management Health Plan and Population Health Services, serves a key role as CHRISTUS continues to integrate the health system, implement Epic and grow the insurance side of their organization. As they transition to value-based care, they have a strategy in place for the next ten years and this individual will help shape that vision. This is an incredible opportunity with a mission-based organization that lives the mission daily.

Reporting directly to the Senior Vice President, CIO and with a dotted line to the Senior Vice President of Population Health and Health Plans, this key leader will also be part of the information systems leadership team. As CHRISTUS continues moving to a single platform, Epic, they will also be implementing Healthy Planet and Tapestry. This is a highly visible position which requires strong communication skills, collaboration, and the ability to partner with executives across the organization.

The CHRISTUS System Director of Information Management Health Plan and Population Health Services will lead strategy development and be responsible for the effective operation of technology and applications support teams in advancing Health Plan Services to clients and Population Health Management.

CHRISTUS is a high energy, fast paced, data driven, and matrixed reporting environment.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree required
Master’s Degree in a related field strongly preferred

Experience:

Requires ten+ years of increasingly responsible leadership experience in large corporate environments with a wide variety of Information Management, Health Plan and Population Health applications and technologies
Requires five+ or more years of provider-owned health plan administration experience (Claims, Service, etc.) with direct accountability for IT in an operational capacity. Expected administrative and/or IT experience with multiple lines of business (e.g., self-insured, Medicaid, Medicare, Medicare Advantage, ACO, HIX Commercial insured)
Experience with health plan and population health IT strategy development
Experience with commercial payers as well as with state and federal health plan reimbursement systems, regulations, and requirements
Requires specialized procedural knowledge of Health Plan/Pop Health systems design, hardware/software, operations, problem resolution, system documentation, and project management
Preferred experience working with provider-sponsored value-based care organizations or managed care organization
Epic strongly preferred, especially Tapestry
Thorough understanding of Healthcare, Health Plan and Population Health Operations
Ability to be extremely organized, disciplined, hands-on, and process-oriented leader who is not afraid of digging into details.
Forward-thinking; able to anticipate regulatory needs/deadlines well in advance and guide the organization in preparing to meet requirements and avoid penalties/loss of payment associated with non-compliance
Exceptionally strong organizational skills, analytics/problem-solving mindset using data to support conclusions, and having a thought process that allows for root cause analysis and issues resolution
Relevant industry certifications (ITIL, MCSE, TOGAF) preferred

Other:

Relocation to Dallas is required.
This executive must be able to travel to facility locations when required. The executive will have a moderate amount (20-30%) of business travel to CHRISTUS U.S. regional locations

Please view the position whitepaper here for more information about CHRISTUS Health, the job, and the community.

Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters.

If you have any questions about this position, please email Steve Bennett.

MemorialCare has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for their Senior Vice President/Chief Information Officer position.

MemorialCare is one of the leading health systems in Orange and Los Angeles Counties serving millions of patients at over 200 locations. An integrated delivery system with four hospitals, two medical groups, imaging centers, and surgical centers the health system includes:
• Primary care at over 30 health centers
• Urgent care locations
• Free-standing imaging centers
• Ambulatory surgical centers
• Dialysis centers

MemorialCare offers more value-based products than any other health system in Southern California. Their Accountable Care Organizations (ACO) include a customized, direct contract between MemorialCare and Boeing, the MemorialCare Health Alliance, as well as other innovative plans like Aetna Whole Health, and Vivity offered by Anthem Blue Cross and created in partnership with 6 other leading health systems in the LA market.

The IT team has approximately 400 team members with two Vice Presidents reporting directly to the SVP/CIO. There is an opportunity for the SVP/CIO to review the organizational structure. As a very early adopter of Epic, they are upgrading to Foundation in late 2020. They have recently refreshed their PeopleSoft application.

CIO Position Overview

The CIO will have a dual-reporting relationship to the CEO and COO. The CEO will provide oversight on MemorialCare’s strategic initiatives and the COO will provide oversight of day to day IT operations. The CIO is part of the 15 person President’s Senior Executive Council. The President’s Council meets monthly and is a very collaborative and transparent team.

The SVP/CIO ensures that key information assets are well integrated and that appropriate technologies are exploited to achieve a competitive advantage. The SVP/CIO is responsible for establishing and maintaining services that are shared among campuses and achieving efficiencies through LEAN management systems. Working in close collaboration with executive management, Boards of Directors, physicians, and key stakeholders of the enterprise, the SVP/CIO will be a key contributor to shaping the vision and determining how technology will support the advancement of strategic goals

MemorialCare seeks a seasoned leader, who is comfortable with open communication and adept at articulating technology to “non-techies” in a way they can understand. The SVP/CIO needs to have a strong commitment to customer service and operational excellence. To be successful, the SVP/CIO needs to be a visionary who can think strategically and act decisively. Building a strong IT culture around the principles of servant leadership is also paramount.

Minimum Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in technology, computer science or related field required
• At least 15 years of progressive experience within information technology with a minimum of ten years of significant IT senior leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in business, hospital administration, computer science or a related field
• Senior leadership experience in a complex health care environment

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

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

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

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

Texas Children’s Hospital has retained Kirby Partners to identify, qualify and present individuals for their Chief Technology Officer Position.

Organization Overview

Texas Children’s Hospital, a not-for-profit health care organization, is committed to creating a healthier future for children and women throughout the global community by leading in patient care, education and research. Consistently ranked as the best children’s hospital in Texas, and among the top in the nation, Texas Children’s has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthroughs in pediatric and women’s health. The organization also created the nation’s first HMO for children, has the largest pediatric primary care network in the country and a global health program that’s channeling care to children and women all over the world. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine.

Chief Technology Officer Position Highlights

The Chief Technology Officer is responsible for the strategy, management, integration, and implementation of information systems and their respective technologies in support of the clinical, financial, and strategic missions. The CTO positions the organization with appropriate information technology systems to react proactively to healthcare changes. The CTO reports to the Asst. Vice President and CIO. The CTO will oversee four direct reports and a total staff of approximately 75. Direct reports include the Manager of Network Services, Manager of Technical Services, Manager of Enterprise Systems, and the Manager of Computer Operations.