Director EHR Applications - Ambulatory

Jefferson Health System

$125K — $150K *
Healthcare
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • 7+ years of implementation and support experience in Information Services or healthcare.
  • Experience with medium to large-scale implementations/upgrades.
  • Strong project resource and budget management skills.
  • Proven experience in large hospital or integrated delivery network (IDN) IT or healthcare operations.
  • Technical collaboration skills in interfaces, hardware, and reporting.
  • Excellent oral and written communication abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Manage adherence to Epic EMR implementation principles.
  • Develop business cases and RFPs/RFIs for projects.
  • Define requirements, deliverables, and project schedules.
  • Ensure compliance with project management processes like scope and risk management.
  • Lead conflict resolution and communication strategies within projects.
  • Escalate issues to executive leadership when necessary.
  • Advocate for and implement operational changes related to EMR applications.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
  • Short- and long-term disability coverage.
  • Flexible spending accounts and retirement plans.
  • Tuition assistance with discounts for colleagues at Thomas Jefferson University after a year of service.
  • Access to group rates on additional voluntary insurance.
  • Medical insurance available for all colleagues, regardless of employment status.
Full Job Description

Job Details

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 Description


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

Job Description Disclaimer: 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

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.

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