Director EHR Applications in Hamilton

Responsible for the strategic leadership and oversight of the design, development, implementation, and lifecycle management of enterprise EHR and related clinical applications. Ensures alignment of application strategy with organizational goals to optimize clinical workflows, enhance provider experience, and improve patient outcomes across the health system. Partners with senior clinical and operational leaders to define requirements, prioritize initiatives, and drive adoption of technology solutions that support regulatory compliance and industry best practices. Provides governance for application configuration, optimization, and integration, ensuring scalability and interoperability. Leads teams in planning, testing, deployment, and continuous improvement of applications, while managing vendor relationships, budgets, and performance metrics. Champions innovation and operational efficiency through technology, fostering collaboration and accountability across multidisciplinary teams.

Job Duties:

• Manages and assures adherence to the Guiding Principles of the Epic EMR implementation.
• Leads and assists in developing project business cases and requests for proposals/information (RFP/RFI).
• Leads efforts to define requirements, deliverables, objectives, resources, and project schedules.
• Ensures appropriate processes are identified and followed, specifically scope management, change management, communications, and risk management.
• Demonstrates leadership by identifying and mitigating tasks, conflict, and communication.
• Escalates issues and risks to executive leadership, to ensure proper awareness and efficient resolution, to sustain the project implementation timeline.
• Effectively manages the Epic and related projects to successful completion in a matrix project management organization serving critical healthcare operations.
• Ensures all outcomes and deliverables meet organizational goals, objectives and quality standards.
• Functions as an advocate, Change Agent and serves as a positive role model for encouraging others to embrace operational changes and transformation associated with the Epic EMR and other application technology projects.
• Responsible for the growth and development of staff at various levels, including managers.

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED.
• 7 years Implementation and support experience.
• Progressive experience in Information Services, or a combination of Information Services and direct healthcare experience.
• Medium to Large-scale implementation/upgrades and Project resource and budget management.
• Large Hospital/IDN Information Technology Experience and/or Healthcare Operations Experience.
• Program/Large Project Management.
• Implementation/Upgrade Facilitation.
• Integrated Systems Architecture Planning, Development and Implementation.
• Technical Collaboration (e.g. Interfaces, Hardware and Reporting).
• Team Leadership.
• Coaching and Mentoring.
• Triaging On-call/DR/BC.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Healthcare.
• Master’s Degree in Computer Science or Healthcare.
• 10 years Progressive experience in Information Services, or a combination of Information Services and direct healthcare experience.
• Implementation and support experience.
• EPIC Certification - Epic Systems.
• PMP - Project Management Professional - Project Management Institute.

Physical Demands: Lift and carry 25 lbs. frequent sitting/standing, frequent keyboard use, patient care providers may be required to perform activities specific to their role including kneeling, bending, squatting and performing CPR.

This position description provides the major duties/responsibilities, requirements and working conditions for the position. It is intended to be an accurate reflection of the current position, however management reserves the right to revise or change as necessary to meet organizational needs. Other responsibilities may be assigned when circumstances require.

Work Shift: Workday Day (United States of America).

Worker Sub Type: Regular.

Employee Entity: Thomas Jefferson University.

Primary Location Address: 1100 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, United States of America.

Jefferson is committed to providing equal educational and employment opportunities for all persons without regard to age, race, color, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, military status, veteran status, handicap or disability or any other protected group or status.

Benefits: Jefferson offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and part-time colleagues, including medical (including prescription), supplemental insurance, dental, vision, life and AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, flexible spending accounts, retirement plans, tuition assistance, as well as voluntary benefits, which provide colleagues with access to group rates on insurance and discounts. Colleagues have access to tuition discounts at Thomas Jefferson University after one year of full time service or two years of part time service. All colleagues, including those who work less than part-time (including per diem colleagues, adjunct faculty, and Jeff Temps), have access to medical (including prescription) insurance.