Director - Radiology IT at The University of Kansas Health System in Kansas City, Kansas

Job Description:

Director - Radiology IT

Department

Radiology IT

Shift

Days - Full-Time

Requisition ID

2020-26465

Position Location

Hospital Main Campus, KS

City

KANSAS CITY

Category

Leadership

State

Kansas

Position Summary/Career Interest

The Director - Imaging Systems & Services is responsible for implementing and supporting Radiology Medical Imaging systems and solutions. The position combines leadership experience with deep clinical imaging and wide technical expertise across a variety of technologies.

Responsibilities

Maintain direct knowledge of current and future capabilities across all in-scope radiology applications portfolio.
- Advise IT Leadership and relevant committees regarding advanced radiology solutions.
- Assist in developing roadmaps and long-range plans for all applications and systems.
- Maintain strong understanding of technology and its application to achieve clinical and business objectives.
- Prepare analysis and/or proposals when necessary.
- Provide operational leadership for lifecycle management, including selection, implementation, maintenance, upgrade, and enhancement of radiology information technology systems and applications.
- Incorporates best practices to improve existing organizational methods and processes.
- Incorporates best practices to improve existing organizational methods and processes.
- Guide requirements gathering and solution design activities including the design of workflows as it relates to area of responsibility.
- Negotiate resolution of conflicting requirements across the agencies and/or departments.
- Set and measure performance objectives and provide regular one-on-one feedback to all members of the team.
- Works with direct reports, other team members and peers to develop and maintain an effective 24x7 on- call support for all in scope systems.
- Hire evaluate the performance of and implement corrective action, up to and including termination, for assigned staff as necessary. Address individual staff performance problems as needed.
- Manage delivery and SLAs by guiding incident resolution, problem management, maintenance, and enhancement tickets raised by the end users for the suite of applications in the responsibility area.
- Monitors relevant metrics, measure and publish the performance of the services provided and enable continuous improvement activities in collaboration with peer groups.
- Ensure radiology and clinical physicians have a high level of customer satisfaction for services and products provided.
- Effectively support and fulfill the vision of Radiology @ UKHS for developing these services and capabilities to support growth and outreach business initiatives.
- Be appropriately trained and advocate the use of Process methodologies approved such as Lean.
- Work closely with all other IT management personnel in identifying, evaluating, and selecting and implementing specific information technology which support the business plans and Radiology IT strategies.
- Define procedures that are compliant with hospital and departmental policies.
- Assist with the preparation of budget for Radiology 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 of various situations regarding the support of the imaging systems and services portfolio of clinical and non-clinical applications.
- Serve as an internal consultant to other IT management staff, and coach, mentor and manage staff to implement, maintain and support all related software, configurations and workflows.
- Support research and publish \\"white papers\\" and \\"decision point documents\\" for use in the department.

Qualifications

Required:
- BS/BA Degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Business Management, Business Analytics, Business Administration or a directly related field from an accredited college or university
- 6 or more years of progressively responsible and directly related work experience; min of 3 years in leadership capacity
- Previous managerial experience in a healthcare provider organization
Preferred:
- 6 years of experience with relevant applications
- 5 years of experience planning and managing IT programs including budgeting, resource, management, and delivery development
- Certified Imaging Informatics Professional Certification

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