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Stanford Health Care IT Manager - Network of Care in Palo Alto, California

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Day - 08 Hour (United States of America)

This is a Stanford Health Care job.

A Brief Overview

The IT Manager – Network of Care is responsible for leading and managing the delivery of IT systems and services for the SMP / UHA's information technology applications as well as all activation across SHC. The position combines leadership experience with deep and wide technical expertise across a variety of technologies. This is a highly visible leadership role that will be in front of client executive leadership to provide progress reports, forecasts, or analysis of various situations regarding the support of a portfolio of clinical and non-clinical applications.

Locations

Stanford Health Care

What you will do

  • Maintain direct knowledge of current and future capabilities across all in-scope applications portfolio.

  • Advise IT management and relevant steering committees regarding the direction of advanced IT systems and applications.

  • Develop roadmaps and long-range plans for all in-scope applications and systems.

  • Responsible for approximately 40 new Stanford clinic implementations each year including new clinics and MOB's.

  • Maintain strong understanding of technology and its application to achieve clinical and business objectives.

  • Provide strategic and operational leadership for lifecycle management, including selection, implementation, maintenance, upgrade, and enhancement of UHA’s information technology systems and applications.

  • Incorporate best practices to improve existing organizational methods and processes.

  • Work closely with other IT leadership in developing short and long range plans, and reviews these plans with senior IT leadership as well as other organizational management.

  • Ensures that the interaction and communication with key business and clinical leaders promotes full understanding of IT systems strategies and goals

  • Co-manages effective governance and portfolio management of IT applications to ensure stakeholder engagement, consensus on prioritization, effective resource management, and functional accountability through all phases of IT applications and product lifecycle

  • Effectively support strategic alignment by linking IT strategy with UHA’s business imperatives and a

  • planning process that communicates effectively about costs, impacts, and reporting

  • Ensure both foundation and community physicians have a high level of customer satisfaction for services and products provided.

  • Effectively support and fulfill the vision of SHC for developing these services and capabilities to support growth and outreach business initiatives.

  • Work closely with all other IT management personnel in identifying, evaluating, and selecting and implementing specific information technology which support the business plans and IT strategies.

  • Prepare and manage budget for IT systems and services related to area of responsibility.

  • Keep abreast of new developments and forecasts future trends in the areas of health care IT management. Maintain a strong understanding of technology and its application to achieve medical and business objectives.

  • Prepare analysis and or proposals for other enterprise departments when necessary. Serve as an internal consultant to other IT management staff, and operations community as needed.

  • Hire, evaluate the performance of and implement corrective action, up to and including termination, for assigned staffs as necessary. Address individual staff performance problems as needed.

  • Support research and publish “white papers” and “decision point documents” for use in the department, user communities, Care Delivery Council, and Executive IT Steering Committee as assigned.

Education Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a work-related field/discipline from an accredited college or university.

Experience Qualifications

  • 5 or more years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience.

  • Prefer 3 years of experience with relevant applications.

  • 3 years of experience planning and managing IT programs including budgeting, resource, management, and delivery development.

  • Previous managerial experience in a healthcare provider organization is required.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • Extensive experience in the implementation, enhancement, and support of a variety of Epic modules including integration with other related applications.

  • Healthcare background, experience and performance that promotes a high level of credibility with clinical professionals.

  • Knowledge and understanding of goals and the interdependencies of functional departments and groups (in health care industry) and the ability to lead large-scale complex IT projects in addressing overall business needs.

  • Knowledge and ability to direct a staff in integrating information technology services with work requirements and deliverables.

  • Knowledge of informational technology disciplines; eg, network operations, databases, software applications and interfaces, production operations, quality assurance and systems management.

  • Knowledge of principles and practices of organization, administration, fiscal and personnel management.

  • Knowledge of project management process and systems.

  • Excellent written, oral, instructional, presentation and interpersonal skills focused on motivation and positive attitude. Highly self-motivated, directed and change oriented. Very strong customer orientation.

  • Ability to demonstrate objectivity, sensitivity, and a balanced perspective regarding employee concerns and organizational issues.

  • Ability to evaluate and negotiate contracts and manage vendor service agreements.

  • Ability to manage complex projects and resources (people, costs, and time) across multiple sub- teams.

  • Ability to handle confrontation with appropriate grace, professionalism, cordiality, and firmness, and manage/resolve disputes appropriately.

  • Ability to communicate concepts in elegant, concise, eloquent form to management and to cross- functional departments or teams verbally, in writing, and through pictures or diagrams when appropriate.

  • Ability to succeed in demanding situations through achieving balance between technical and business interests, accomplishing results through third parties, remaining focused on given objectives, modulating speed, quality and costs, and thriving under pressure.

  • Ability to apply judgment and make informed decisions.

  • Ability to develop programs and lead process improvement projects.

  • Ability to foster effective working relationships and build consensus with other departments and external vendors.

  • Ability to strategize, plan, organize, prioritize, work independently and meet deadlines.

  • Ability to supervise, coach, mentor, train, and evaluate work results.

  • Knowledge of local, state and federal regulatory requirement related to the functional area.

  • Knowledge of current issues and trends in health care and clinical operations in a health care system.

  • Knowledge of new technologies (in specific field) and maintain and stay abreast of updates and changes.

These principles apply to ALL employees:

SHC Commitment to Providing an Exceptional Patient & Family Experience

Stanford Health Care sets a high standard for delivering value and an exceptional experience for our patients and families. Candidates for employment and existing employees must adopt and execute C-I-CARE standards for all of patients, families and towards each other. C-I-CARE is the foundation of Stanford’s patient-experience and represents a framework for patient-centered interactions. Simply put, we do what it takes to enable and empower patients and families to focus on health, healing and recovery.

You will do this by executing against our three experience pillars, from the patient and family’s perspective:

  • Know Me: Anticipate my needs and status to deliver effective care

  • Show Me the Way: Guide and prompt my actions to arrive at better outcomes and better health

  • Coordinate for Me: Own the complexity of my care through coordination

Equal Opportunity Employer Stanford Health Care (SHC) strongly values diversity and is committed to equal opportunity and non-discrimination in all of its policies and practices, including the area of employment. Accordingly, SHC does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity and/or expression, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, marital status, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, or disability, or the perception of any of the above. People of all genders, members of all racial and ethnic groups, people with disabilities, and veterans are encouraged to apply. Qualified applicants with criminal convictions will be considered after an individualized assessment of the conviction and the job requirements.

Base Pay Scale: Generally starting at $70.43 - $93.34 per hour

The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty and training. This pay scale is not a promise of a particular wage.

At Stanford Health Care, we seek to provide patients with the very best in diagnosis and treatment, with outstanding quality, compassion and coordination. With an unmatched track record of scientific discovery, technological innovation and translational medicine, Stanford Medicine physicians are pioneering leading edge therapies today that will change the way health care is delivered tomorrow.

As part of our spirit of discovery, we also leverage our deep relationships with luminary Silicon Valley companies to develop new ways to deliver preeminent patient care.

Learn about our awards (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/awards.html) and significant events (https://stanfordhealthcare.org/about-us/our-history.html) .

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