Director, Clinical Applications & Interoperability

Emerus Holdings, Inc.; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Emerus Holdings, Inc. seeks a Clinical Application Director to own the roadmap and lifecycle for clinical systems outside the EHR, including radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, and clinical operations applications and their integrations.

This executive role partners with joint venture health system counterparts, the EHR team, and vendor partners to ensure safe, efficient, and financially sound care across markets while establishing standards, governance, training, and go-live support across markets.

Qualifications

• Active clinical license or credential with patient care experience.
• 10+ years in healthcare IT with at least 5 years leading teams.
• Ownership of clinical application build, configuration, testing, and release.
• Experience with at least one EHR implementation through go-live.
• Understanding of clinical workflows across ED, inpatient, pharmacy, and lab.
• Master's degree or equivalent and familiarity with interoperability standards.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap for clinical applications surrounding the EHR, including radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, and clinical operations apps and integrations.
• Establish standards for application design, configuration, validation, and release.
• Develop and communicate a strategic direction for the clinical application portfolio.
• Translate technology strategy into actionable plans for clinical and operational leaders.
• Serve as the senior contact for health system partners regarding clinical systems operated by Emerus.
• Align clinical applications with partner clinical standards and governance.
• Coordinate with partner teams responsible for the EHR.
• Establish and maintain configuration standards, change control, downtime procedures, and support boundaries.
• Maintain effective partnerships throughout hospital construction, opening, and steady-state operations.
• Lead the clinical application workstream for new neighborhood hospitals.
• Support partner design sessions, configuration, integrated testing, training, go-live command centers, and post-live stabilization.
• Develop repeatable configuration and validation processes that improve efficiency across successive hospital openings.
• Ensure clinical applications are prepared to support fixed 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 clear performance expectations and provide direct feedback.
• Develop analysts into leads and leads into managers.
• Establish consistent standards across radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, clinical operations applications, integrations, and clinical application support.
• Clinical Quality, Safety, and Optimization
• 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 changes that do not produce desired results.
• Partner with interoperability, business intelligence, revenue cycle IT, infrastructure, security, and project management.
• Ensure clinical application changes align with interfaces, charge capture, reporting, access management, and broader technology initiatives.
• Escalate risks early and communicate them clearly.
• Maintain shared accountability for cross-functional outcomes.
• Maintain change control, validation evidence, and documentation required for regulatory, accreditation, and partner audits.
• Ensure compliance with HIPAA and applicable state hospital licensure standards.
• Manage clinical application vendors and consulting partners against defined scope, service levels, and budgets.
• Hold vendors and consultants to established internal performance standards.

Skills

Healthcare IT leadership

EHR lifecycle ownership

Vendor management

Interoperability HL7/FHIR

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in nursing/health informatics/info systems

Master's degree or equivalent + certifications

Tools

Epic certification

Cerner certification

Job description

Emerus Holdings, Inc. seeks a Clinical Application Director to own the roadmap and lifecycle for clinical systems outside the EHR, including radiology, pharmacy, laboratory, and clinical operations applications and their integrations.

This executive role partners with joint venture health system counterparts, the EHR team, and vendor partners to ensure safe, efficient, and financially sound care across markets while establishing standards, governance, training, and go-live support across markets.