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Duke Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture.

Duke Health is an integrated health system based in Durham, North Carolina with three hospitals and includes the Duke University School of Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Duke University School of Nursing, Duke University Health System, and the Private Diagnostic Clinic PLLC physicians practice.

The health system has more than 140 specialty and primary care clinics, and educational and research institutions that serve Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill in North Carolina.

Duke is the largest employer in Durham County and the state’s fourth-largest private employer.

Position Overview

Reporting to the Associate Chief Technology Officer, the Senior Director of Enterprise Architecture will be responsible for translating institutional strategy into technical needs and requirements for Duke Health. The Enterprise Architect is responsible for leading architecture teams while defining and providing the technical direction for solution architecture designs and system engineering for infrastructure, middleware, mobile and platform solutions. This key position facilitates execution of strategic initiatives and the implementation of technologies across the portfolio using new and traditional architectures. The Enterprise Architect will be a part of the CTO organization and provide industry leadership on key design decisions balanced against resource impacts and risks to Duke Health.

Upcoming Projects:

Architecting Duke’s cloud-smart strategy
Epic disaster recovery readiness
Establishing the architecture for the Nference partnership

An Exciting Partnership:

In addition, Duke Health and Microsoft Corporation are embarking on a 5-year, innovative partnership aimed at responsibly and ethically harnessing the potential of generative artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology to redefine the health care landscape.

By marrying Duke Health’s leadership in patient care and medical research with Microsoft’s technological expertise, this strategic alliance will usher in a new era of innovation, including the creation of a Duke Health AI Innovation Lab and Center of Excellence.

Microsoft will equip Duke with state-of-the-art training to foster a cloud-savvy IT workforce and construct a secure cloud environment to simplify and modernize IT operations. In addition, Duke intends to leverage Microsoft’s secure cloud analytics solutions to streamline clinical care, promote health equity, and further advancements in both research and education. To illustrate, Duke’s strategy involves utilizing cloud analytics to equip its researchers and clinicians with the ability to pinpoint and address the significant health challenges prevalent within the community.

The SDEA will have full-scale responsibility over security, infrastructure, and blended solutions for this partnership.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree and 4 years of progressive experience in a combination of IT design and architecture disciplines with at least 3 years of solution architecture experience and 3 years of management experience
If no degree, 10 years of progressive experience in a combination of design and/or architecture disciplines

Required Skills:

Well-versed in enterprise technology buying and evaluation processes paired with a strong understanding of hyper-scale computing solutions and experience building, architecting, designing, and implementing highly distributed global cloud-based systems
5+ years of experience implementing virtual environments in private and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Experience in architecting, developing software, or Internet scale production-grade big data solutions in virtualized environments
Ability to work, communicate effectively, and influence stakeholders on internal/external engineering teams, product development teams, external partners, and executive-level leadership
Excellent presentation and communication skills
Ability to interpret customer business and technical needs
Outstanding problem-solving and analytical skills

Preferred Skills:

Experience in a healthcare environment
Experience in Big Data within the cloud, including data analytics/warehousing, and with database design/querying
3+ years managing an architecture team
Experience in emerging technologies including Enterprise cloud computing AI platforms, Machine Learning, and Data Lakes

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Please note that Kirby Partners exclusively represents this job opportunity and all candidates will be presented through our team of executive recruiters. If you have questions about this position, please email Jaclyn Gates.

ECU Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Vice President, Technical Services/Chief Technology Officer.

ECU Health is a mission-driven health care system in eastern North Carolina that reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties. ECU Health’s system of care includes an academic medical center with two campuses, affiliated with The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, seven community hospitals, numerous outpatient facilities, home health, and hospice and wellness centers. The system also includes a multi-specialty physician and provider group, offers access to more than 500 providers in 100+ practice locations.

Facts and Figures:

1,708 licensed beds
$2,153,497B net operating revenue
13,636 employees
65,039 admissions
395,801 outpatient visits
6,188 births
681 open heart surgeries
245,125 emergency visits

Vice President, Technical Services/Chief Technology Officer Position Overview

The Vice President, Technology Services/Chief Technology Officer (CTO) serves as the technology strategist for ECU Health.

ECU Health’s technology functions include server, storage, image, end user computing, collaboration and telephony, and all other communications and processing systems, as well as data center operations and disaster recovery. 

The CTO architects technical strategy and infrastructure standards ensuring high availability of clinical and business applications. The CTO also leads a Technical Infrastructure team of around 80 people. 

The CTO also plays a key role in the organization’s digital transformation. The CTO has responsibility for products that keep ECU Health at the forefront of digital and technological capabilities.

As a key business executive, the CTO will offer business rationale and perspective to technology opportunities and investments.  The CTO will be a technology advocate throughout the organization for the effective application of technology to meet business needs and support growth. 

Reporting to the CIO, the CTO works with Information Services and business leadership to:

Define and implement policies, procedures and technical solutions that ensure interoperability
Manage security risks
Lower total cost of ownership
Provide a platform for scalable future growth

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, engineering mathematics or business required.

Required Experience:

10+ years of management experience as a senior level information systems professional with a strong technical background and proven track record of accomplishments in a large, complex multi-entity organization.
A track record of successfully developing and implementing IS strategies at an enterprise level, including the research, selection, implementation, operation and maintenance of large-scale systems over multiple hardware and software platforms.
Prior experience delivering high availability systems in a 24/7 environment across geographically dispersed business units.

Preferred Experience:

Experience in the healthcare industry, with an understanding of the industry’s drivers, direction and operations.

On-site Requirements:

Relocation to North Carolina is required for this position. 
An on-site presence is dependent on organizational priorities and the need for face-to-face interaction with operating unit leadership and staff. 
Occasional travel to ECU Health Community Hospitals, Physician Practices and off-site locations is necessary.

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Partners Health Management has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Senior Director of Enterprise Data Analytics.

About Partners Health Management

You will often hear people call Partners a local management entity/managed care organization or LME/MCO.

Partners considers itself a MCO…a Member Care Organization™.

The organization is recognized across North Carolina for their Partners Community Model and their unwavering commitment to individuals and families they serve. The system of care Partners manages is shaped by the choices of their members and their families and designed to meet the unique needs of each community in their service area.

Partners provides access to care for central and western North Carolina’s most vulnerable citizens.

They manage Medicaid, state and local funding for intellectual/developmental disabilities, mental health, substance use disorder and traumatic brain injury (IDD/MH/SUD/TBI) services in their covered areas.

Late in 2022, Partners will begin the operation of a North Carolina Tailored Plan, adding physical health and pharmacy services to their existing service array.

“Partners believes strongly in our mission to improve lives and strengthen communities.

There are no better opportunities to achieve this than by creating community-based programs focused on solving the core problems impacting health in a community.”

Rhett Melton, CEO for Partners

Senior Director of Enterprise Data Analytics Position Overview

The Senior Director of Enterprise Data Analytics will harness the power of data to improve patient care and fulfill reporting requirements.

The Senior Director will report to the CIO and work collaboratively with Partners Health Management’s leadership team to provide access to operational data and metrics.

This position is a senior level role responsible for driving analytics, data visualization, and data automation for all functions of the organization.

The Senior Director of Enterprise Data Analytics will also:

Thoughtfully lead enterprise-wide efforts to create a data-driven culture.
Advance the sustainable use of meaningful, easily accessible, and user-friendly data.
Lead data governance efforts focused on standardizing and harmonizing data.
Establish and manage strong data analytics and architecture to support the organization as a data-driven leader.

Qualifications

Education:

Bachelor’s Degree required in Data Analytics, Informatics, Computer Science, Statistics, Data Management, or a related field.

Experience:

Experience ramping up analytics programs, including integrating with work of other teams to ensure analytics approach is aligned with strategy and available data.
Ability to effectively communicate complex analytical concepts with confidence to non-technical audiences.
Experience implementing and supporting production reporting and analytic systems to exacting service levels that deliver multiple subject areas with cross functional integration.
Expertise selecting context-appropriate modeling, analysis, and reporting techniques, with hands-on skills with common analytics techniques such as: factor analysis, regression/logistic regression, CHAID/decision trees, K-means, univariate analysis, cross-tabs, and time series analysis.

Relocation is not required for this position. The position will require an on-site presence for monthly leadership meetings; Partners Health Management will cover travel expenses.

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ECU Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Chief Medical Informatics and Digital Health Officer.

ECU Health is a mission-driven integrated system that reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties across eastern North Carolina.

The health system includes ECU Health Medical Center, its flagship academic medical center with two campuses affiliated with The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, nine regional hospitals, outpatient facilities, home health, hospice, and wellness centers.

ECU Health also includes a multi-specialty physician and provider group that offers access to more than 500 providers in over 100 practice locations.

Chief Medical Informatics and Digital Health Officer Position Overview

As a key strategic executive for ECU Health, the Chief Medical Informatics and Digital Health Officer (CMIDHO), will develop and execute strategies to optimize and transform care delivery models and the clinician-patient experience through the smart use of the EHR, digital tools, advanced technologies, services and processes. The CMIDHO will have a dyad relationship with the Chief Information Officer.

The CMIDHO will develop these strategies in collaboration with executive and clinical leaders taking into consideration clinical, administrative, operational, research and educational needs of the organization.

The CMIDHO will set the digital health vision and align the use of technology with health system strategies and key clinical priorities. The CMIDHO serves as the evangelist of technology enabled clinical transformation by setting the tone, spurring enthusiasm, and challenging current wisdom.

As a change agent, the CMIDHO will engage multi-disciplinary teams and build enabling capabilities to reimagine care delivery and processes that support personalized human experiences across all touchpoints. The CMIDHO will balance the excitement and investment in digital heath technologies with the adoption and value proposition that is complex and multifaceted.

The CMIDHO has the dual responsibility to maintain and incrementally improve the EHR and core technology systems and platforms while also leading and supporting digital transformational activities. This will require striking the right balance between short term improvement and long-term value and exploring new opportunities in the digital world while addressing existing operational challenges through the available digital means.

Qualifications

Required:

Doctor of Medicine (MD or DO) with at least five years practicing while leveraging an EHR for care delivery; eligibility for unrestricted license to practice in North Carolina.
At least 2 years of significant leadership experience in a clinical informatics role within a health care system leveraging an electronic health record.
Board Certification in appropriate specialty.
Visionary and global thinking related to the use of technology in medicine.
Comfort in challenging the status quo and ‘the way things have always been done’ to bring creativity and innovation into the organization.
Proven track record as a problem solver and business leader with a high emotional quotient and strong interpersonal skills.
Passionate about building collaborations of patient and clinician-focused innovators to solve complex healthcare problems.
Experience coaching, mentoring, persuading, leading and advising health care providers in the use of clinical information systems to provide high quality patient care.
Excellent collaboration and influencing skills, with an ability to partner with a dynamic leadership team and navigate enterprise politics and matrixed relationships.

Desired:

Board certification in Clinical Informatics.
Formal training in Clinical Informatics.
Significant leadership experience with an Epic health system.
Experience in a complex academic environment.
Experience leading and/or supporting system-wide digital transformation efforts.
Industry experience working with biopharma, payers, startups, and technology vendors is a plus.

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ECU Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Ambulatory Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer.

ECU Health is a mission-driven integrated system that reaches more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties across eastern North Carolina.

ECU Health also includes a multi-specialty physician and provider group that offers access to more than 500 providers in over 100 practice locations.

Ambulatory Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer Position Overview

The Ambulatory Associate Chief Medical Informatics Officer (ACMIO) serves as a liaison between physicians and Information Services (IS) to maximize patient outcomes, experience, and safety along with quality of care and operational efficiency.

As one of three ACMIOs reporting to the Chief Medical Informatics Officer, the Ambulatory ACMIO will work to align priorities with the strategic mission of the ECU Health Medical Group and collaborate with ECU Health’s Community Partners.

By working closely with ambulatory physician – users “on the ground,” the ACMIO will support the use of existing technologies and evaluate new solutions that enable high-quality care, as well as define current and future workflows that meet physician needs and align with strategic initiatives.

The ACMIO will focus largely on the Epic EHR design but will also advise on other technology leveraged by physicians including NLP software, digital apps, analytics, and clinical decision support.

As the Ambulatory SME on the medical informatics team, the ACMIO will assist the CMIO with the vision and strategy in the deployment of clinical and analytics technology that enhance population health outcomes, optimize patient experience, and strengthen the clinician-patient relationship. The ACMIO will continue to practice in their specialty for 20% of their time.

Qualifications

Required:

Five or more years’ experience in clinical informatics/analytics with management responsibility.
Doctor of Medicine (MD or DO) with at least five years practicing while leveraging an EHR; eligibility for unrestricted license to practice in North Carolina.
Board Certification in appropriate specialty.
Expert knowledge in healthcare informatics and able to anticipate trends and develop programs and key initiatives.
Organizational change management experience focused on driving value, pursuing innovation, overcoming resistance, and being a catalyst for effective change.

Desired:

Board certification in Clinical Informatics.
Formal training in clinical informatics.
Significant leadership experience with an Epic health system.

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Vidant Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics.

Vidant Health is a mission-driven health care system that serves more than 1.4 million people across 29 counties in Eastern North Carolina. As one of the most progressive not-for-profit health care systems, Vidant Health’s system of care includes the following:

Vidant Medical Center – a level I trauma center and the teaching hospital for the Brody School of Medicine
Eight community hospitals
Vidant Medical Group – primary care and specialty services
Vidant Home Health & Hospice
Vidant Wellness centers
Vidant Health Foundation

Director, Enterprise Data & Analytics Job Overview

The Director, Enterprise Data and Analytics develops the vision, strategy and provides operational leadership for Vidant Health’s data and analytics program.

As a highly visible and impactful role reporting to the Chief Information Officer, the Director fosters collaborative partnerships with technology, clinical and business teams across the organization to understand and deliver on the broad information needs necessary to support Vidant’s strategic objectives and operational imperatives.

Through routine, direct engagement with senior clinical and administrative leadership, the Director’s team supports the development of actionable insights and provides a critical linkage between the strategies of both analytics and the organization to achieve breakthrough performance for all Vidant Health stakeholders.

The Director develops and drives the roadmap for the data and analytics program with the overarching goal to transform and modernize Vidant’s analytics strategy, and to provide solutions that empower stakeholders to quickly answer questions and gain insights. The roadmap will include plans for reporting and visualizations as well as the appropriate underlying data architecture, governance, analytics, and technologies.

The Director is accountable for leading the continuous development of advanced analytics capabilities, service delivery, and uncovering drivers of business and clinical operations and performance. The Director strives to identify opportunities to eliminate duplication of effort and streamline the way our stakeholders consume data and information in a way that establishes a new framework of data governance standards for the organization.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s degree
5+ year’s experience in an analytics leadership/management role
Strong passion for a data driven culture; embraces a federated model for enterprise analytics
3+ years of healthcare experience
Solid technology leadership skills
Exceptional communication skills
Familiarity with data governance and security/privacy compliance including clinical research
Experience with data access tools such as: SQL, SAS, R, or Python
Experience with data visualization tools like Tableau

Preferred:

Master’s degree

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The Director may elect to live in surrounding areas, including Raleigh, but will be on-site part of the time.

Atrium Health has retained Kirby Partners to conduct a nationwide executive search for candidates for their Director, Enterprise Architecture.

Atrium Health is one of the nation’s leading healthcare organizations and the region’s largest primary network. Formerly Carolinas HealthCare System, Atrium Health began as Charlotte Memorial Hospital in 1940 and has grown its network to include more than 50 hospitals and 900 care locations, ranging from doctors’ offices to behavioral health centers to nursing homes.

Atrium Health focuses on delivering the highest quality patient care, supporting medical research and education, and joining with outside partners to keep its community healthy.

Director, Enterprise Architecture Job Overview

The Director, Enterprise Architecture, provides leadership and direction on technology strategy plans for Atrium Health’s technology environment, including the technical architecture, acquisitions, designs, and deployment of complex, integrated and standardized IS solutions to satisfy clinical and business functional requirements.

The CIO, who has been in place since August, is very supportive of this position and the CTO is accountable to make sure the position is both strategic and enterprise wide. The EA will be building out the standard enterprise architecture as well as looking at the next generation of enterprise architecture and bringing that to maturity.

Qualifications

Required:

Bachelor’s Degree
6+ years as IS Executive experience managing operations services, teams & vendors
8+ years of experience in IT Service Management and Service Operations
Proven record of ITIL process implementation and continuous improvement
Strong technical knowledge of key platform technologies and infrastructure
Leading an EA program in an organization of similar scope and scale

Preferred and highly desired:

Master’s Degree
ITIL Expert Certification
Experience in quality and performance management
Familiarity with healthcare industry drivers such as Affordable Care Act, Population Health, and Meaningful Use Stages
Epic experience
Familiarity with EA structures (such as COBIT, for example)
Healthcare background

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