Senior Director of Health Informatics

Want to work in a mission-driven startup with huge reach and scale that is improving health in California? Come join our team!   Manifest MedEx is on a mission to connect healthcare in California. As the largest nonprofit health data network in California, Manifest MedEx (MX) is an integral part of the state’s health data infrastructure, combining and delivering crucial health information for more than 50 million individual records across every county throughout the state. We are committed to improving patient experience and reducing healthcare costs by making it easier for doctors, hospitals, health plans and other care providers to securely review, analyze and share health information. Reporting to the CIO, the Senior Director of Health Informatics is responsible for Manifest MedEx’s operations relating to the California Data Exchange Framework (DxF) and critical CIO level project activity. Responsibilities: California Data Exchange Framework (DxF) Program Owner for Manifest MedEx

Primary POC at MX for this program and how MX technically operates it.

Primary POC for any questions from internal staff, participants, non-participants, potential participants.

Serves as MX’s primary contact for the Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and acts as MX’s representative on relevant committees.

Provides guidance on program requirements to MX’s product and technical teams to ensure compliance.

Supplies all required reporting to HCAI

Supplies all reporting to internal constituents

Duties: Assist the CIO with a variety of projects

Perform analysis for complex projects that require both a technical and business perspective

Partner with a wide variety of internal departments including technical, business development, policy and more

Perform vendor analysis and contract review

Provide requirements for requests that require scoping and design

Perform technical analysis of data to support various projects and activities

Prepare for and run participant meetings, which cover workflow, business impact, cost and solutions

Represent MX on health plan Quarterly Business Reviews, and compile material for such reviews

Represent MX with various external organization and committees as needed

Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree or commensurate experience

Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy while able to effectively communicate technical information in non-technical terms

Excellent people skills with a proactive customer service-oriented approach, and a focus on building relationships with internal and external customers

Proven background in communicating and conducting outreach in forums of all sizes, with diverse stakeholders, and ability to speak extemporaneously on program, project, and policy matters.

Strong public speaking skills – polished communication – ability to command a room and an audience

Passionate about (and experience using) information and data to improve health

Sense of urgency, nimbleness, creative thinking, and personal integrity

10+ years in senior leadership roles in Health IT

Direct experience with national interoperability organizations of eHealth Exchange, Carequality, and Commonwell

Strong experience with Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) policies and technical standards approaches

Strong knowledge of national and California health policy landscape

Strong knowledge and direct experience with EHR interoperability including HL7 v2, CCDA and FHIR based

Proven experience working on an executive level team