Fairview Health Services

Responsibilities/Job Description

Fairview is looking for a Clinical Technologies Program Director to join our team.

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Job Summary:

The Program Director, Clinical Technologies role is responsible for ensuring successful implementation of clinical technology solutions, optimization of hospital workflows with operations, and enhancing patient care through innovation including the ongoing maturation of these solutions. This role programmatically leads the planning, execution, and deployment of clinical hospital technology initiatives to shape the overall system strategy and direction for the portfolio.

This individual maintains strong vendor, IT, and operational partnerships to expedite nursing and other clinical teams’ innovation portfolio of work. They will facilitate establishing and then maintain the schedule of and dependencies for implementations, optimizations, and strategic planning activities for complex clinical technology projects like nurse call, clinical communications, cardiac monitoring, and others. This leader coordinates across informatics, IT, and operations to ensure successful end-to-end deployment of clinical technology solutions, including the hardware, software, integrated systems, various endpoints, and clinical workflows. They also facilitate the conduction of risk assessments and evaluation of the adoption and utilization of various technologies and provide plans to mitigate issues with the goal of ensuring seamless execution and safe use.

This leader aligns with the program and various project sponsors to understand and translate business objectives into an accumulative series of program outcomes in the operating context of the business. Together with the program sponsor, this role facilitates program advancement through governance activities, identification of risks and realization of benefits, communication of program decisions, and change management activities.

This role must have the ability to look at the big picture, translate business objectives into an outcomes-based framework for action, have strong project management skills and be proficient fostering team culture and dynamics. Other important attributes of this leader are having the ability to negotiate through disputes, excellent communication skills, and the ability to guide, referee and integrate multiple projects and project managers involved in the program.

Position Details:

• mobile position: onsite work required as needed
• salaried role

Responsibilities:

• Articulate the clinical technologies vision, program strategy, and execution plan in terms of program outcomes required to achieve the business objective. Clarify business impact of projects and program to various stakeholders.
• Define clinical technologies program execution structure, including component projects, teams and methodologies, and project management requirements. Apply standards and guidelines to define, organize and oversee a clinical technologies program execution structure.
• Plan and coordinate resources for approved clinical technology project activities across informatics functions (clinical technologies, EHR/HIT instructional design and support, design & optimization, and change management). Coordinate underlying projects to attain their combined benefits for the program.
• Provide framework/roadmap to integrate component projects and efforts, including clinical technologies program milestones and target outcomes. Establish and oversee an inventory of supporting processes to advance the adoption and use of clinical technologies.
• Coordinate with the Transformation Office, IT PMO, and clinical technologies program sponsor to manage organizational change related to program deliverables.

Required Qualifications

• B.S./B.A. Bachelor’s degree in business, technology or related field or an equivalent combination of experience, education, and training.
• 5 years managing programs with at least 7-10 years managing large, complex projects with technology components.
• Must have advanced knowledge of the healthcare industry and the intersection of clinical care and technology needs facing care teams and operations.
• Proven experience in hospital technology deployments, project management, or healthcare IT including a familiarity with various project and program management tools and methodologies
• Ability to drive change management and stakeholder engagement in complex healthcare environments.
• Strong understanding of clinical workflows, EHR and other health information technology systems, infrastructure, data integration, and healthcare compliance standards (e.g., HIPAA, FDA).
• Ability to and experience with creation of a roadmap of outcomes across projects, setting realistic and measurable goals and timelines, and tracking outcomes over time.
• Exceptional leadership, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to consistently communicate the big picture and vision to all audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to negotiate and resolve challenges efficiently and effectively.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree in Nursing
• M.A./M.S.
• Doctorate
• PgMP Project Management Certification

Qualifications

$124176.00-$175323.20 Annual