Manager - Epic Inpatient Orders (Remote Available)

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Organization:

HealthIT Core Clinicals

Job Summary:

The Epic Inpatient Orders Team Manager is responsible for leading a team of 5 full-time analysts and 2 contractors. This manager role will assign work to Inpatient Orders analysts and prioritize and plan for future enhancements and projects. The Orders team manager is currently responsible for leading the Provider workstream for the Clarksville Hospital Go-Live and would be responsible for leading similar workgroups for implementations in the future. The Orders team supports Epic build, testing, and implementation of inpatient consults and procedures, inpatient provider workflows, lab orderables, blood bank, order transmittal and many other workflows in Epic this manager is ultimately responsible for overseeing and acts as an escalation point for issues in these areas. This manager supports upgrades by leading note review efforts and acts as secondary on-call for the Orders team.

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KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Managing IT staff by recruiting and training employees, communicating job expectations, assigning projects/tasks, and monitoring performance.

• Ensures staff alignment with mission and strategic plan

• Ensures staff compliance with budgets, resource allocation, operational plans, and policies.

• Ensures that projects stay on track and regularly communicates status to department leadership and business/operational leaders.

• Regularly review/implement advances in technology and industry best practices.

• Assists with preparation of operating and capital budgets following established guidelines and using benchmark data.

• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

REQUIREMENTS

• Prior management experience (Preferred)

• Epic Inpatient Orders certification (Required)

• Bachelor's degree (Required)

TECHNICAL CAPABILITIES

• Operations Planning (Intermediate): Anticipates resource needs to meet objectives and implements appropriate processes.

• Leadership (Intermediate): Formulates a vision while motivating & guiding employees promoting engagement. Leaders state precise goals, ensures the commitment of individuals to those goals, defines the methods of measurement, and provides the incentive to accomplish measureable outcomes.

• Quality Management (Intermediate): Developing a systematic process of checking to see whether a process or service is meeting specific requirements.

• Business Results (Intermediate): Ability to achieve business results while focusing on quality, customer satisfaction, and stewardship.

• People Management (Intermediate): Interacting, communicating, building relationships and developing employees.

• Compliance (Intermediate): Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organizations, both internally and externally.

About the Department:

Health IT

HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of:

• Delivering distinctively personalized care

• Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally

• Providing transformative learning programs

• Supporting compelling discoveries

Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product’s entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical