[Hiring] Clinical Application Director @Emerus

Role Description

Emerus builds and operates neighborhood hospitals in joint venture partnership with leading health systems. Each partnership carries its own clinical standards and its own expectations for how care is documented and measured, which makes the clinical application function central to how quickly a new hospital opens and how well it performs once it does. The Clinical Application Director owns that function for the clinical systems that sit outside the electronic health record:

• Design, configuration, optimization, and ongoing support of the radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, and clinical operations applications and integrations.
• Managing contracts for these applications and budgeting for upgrades.
• Managing communication with executives regarding production issues or outages.
• Managing relationships with each of the vendors that support the applications.

This is a leadership role for a clinician-turned-technologist. We are looking for someone who has practiced or worked at the point of care, understands why a poorly designed system or workflow drives clinician burnout, and has spent a decade leading and developing the teams that fix those problems. The director partners closely with:

• Joint venture health system counterparts.
• Partner teams that own the electronic health record.
• Emerus clinical operations.
• Revenue cycle and interoperability leadership.

The application portfolio supports safe, efficient, and financially sound care across every market we serve. The director submits SBARs to the partner for projects requested from operation leadership to interface/extract data from the EHR and coordinates the correct internal Emerus team on the technical specs for these projects.

Qualifications

• Active Epic certification in one or more clinical applications, such as ClinDoc, ASAP, Orders, Willow, Radiant, or Beaker.
• Oracle Health/Cerner certification or equivalent formal credential in Cerner Millennium clinical applications.
• Hands-on Epic build experience without formal certification.
• Direct clinical experience, evidenced by an active or previously held clinical license or credential.
• Bachelor's degree in nursing, clinical discipline, health informatics, information systems, or a related field.
• Master's degree in nursing, health informatics, business, or a related field, or a credential such as RN-BC informatics certification, CPHIMS, or CHCIO.

Requirements

• Ten or more years of progressive experience in healthcare information technology, including at least five years leading teams.
• Demonstrated ownership of clinical application build, configuration, testing, and release in a hospital or health system environment.
• Experience leading or materially supporting at least one EHR implementation, activation, or major upgrade through go-live and stabilization.
• Working knowledge of clinical workflow across emergency, inpatient, pharmacy, laboratory, and imaging settings.
• Experience in a joint venture, managed services, or multi-owner hospital environment.
• Familiarity with interoperability standards including HL7 and FHIR.

Benefits

• Provides all application systems support after hours as an escalation resource to department staff.
• Travel to all facility locations as required.