Clinical Application Director

🔥 13 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👔 Director

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Emerus Holdings, Inc.

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2006

🏥 Healthcare

💊 Pharmaceuticals

💰 Private Equity Round on 2015-08

Healthcare • Pharmaceuticals

Emerus Holdings, Inc. is the nation’s first and largest operator of neighborhood hospitals, dedicated to partnering with leading health systems to deliver excellence, empathy, and innovation in healthcare. Their unique model features small-format hospitals that offer a wide range of outpatient and ancillary services, including emergency care, imaging, specialty care, inpatient care, diagnostic testing, and pharmacy services, all within a single licensed facility. Headquartered near Houston, Texas, Emerus prioritizes patient-first care and has been nationally recognized for its high standards. With a diverse team of over 2,000 professionals across 20+ specialties, Emerus has proudly served local communities for over 18 years, emphasizing collaboration and integration with partner health systems across the U. S.

📋 Description

• Own the roadmap for clinical applications surrounding the EHR, including radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, clinical operations applications, and integrations • Establish standards for application design, configuration, validation, release, change control, downtime procedures, and support boundaries • Develop and communicate strategic direction for the clinical application portfolio • Translate technology strategy into actionable plans for clinical and operational leaders • Serve as senior contact for health system partners regarding Emerus-operated clinical systems • Align clinical applications with partner clinical standards and governance • Coordinate with partner teams responsible for the EHR • Lead the clinical application workstream for new neighborhood hospitals • Support design sessions, configuration, integrated testing, training, go-live command centers, and post-live stabilization • Develop repeatable configuration and validation processes for successive hospital openings • Ensure applications support construction and licensure-driven activation timelines • Build, coach, and develop clinical application analysts and informatics resources • Assess team capabilities and close gaps through hiring, certification, mentoring, and structured development • Establish performance expectations and provide direct feedback • Develop analysts into leads and leads into managers • Partner with clinical leadership on application and workflow design • Reduce unnecessary variation and clinician burden while maintaining patient safety • Own intake and prioritization of clinical change requests • Measure optimization outcomes and discontinue ineffective changes • Partner with interoperability, business intelligence, revenue cycle IT, infrastructure, security, and project management • Ensure changes align with interfaces, charge capture, reporting, access management, and broader technology initiatives • Escalate risks and communicate them clearly • Maintain change control, validation evidence, and documentation for regulatory, accreditation, and partner audits • Ensure compliance with HIPAA and applicable state hospital licensure standards • Manage clinical application vendors and consulting partners against scope, service levels, and budgets • Hold vendors and consultants to internal performance standards • Provide after-hours application systems support as an escalation resource

🎯 Requirements

• Active or previously held clinical license or credential such as RN, pharmacist, respiratory therapist, laboratory or imaging professional, or physician, with time spent delivering patient care • 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 • Bachelor's degree in nursing, clinical discipline, health informatics, information systems, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience • Experience in a joint venture, managed services, or multi-owner hospital environment • Certification or practical depth in both Epic and Cerner, or experience migrating a facility from one platform to the other • Emergency department or freestanding hospital experience • Familiarity with interoperability standards including HL7 and FHIR • Active Epic certification in one or more clinical applications, or Oracle Health/Cerner certification or equivalent formal credential, or hands-on Epic build experience without formal certification • Willingness to obtain Epic certification within the first year where applicable • Ability to provide after-hours application systems support as an escalation resource • Willingness to travel to all facility locations as required

🏖️ Benefits

• Equal access to information, development and opportunity • Teamwork-focused work environment celebrating diversity, promoting equity, and ensuring inclusion