Director, Health Information Management

UF Health; Gainesville (FL); Presencial; USD 150.000 - 200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

UF Health is seeking a Director of Health Information Management to lead enterprise-wide governance of the medical record lifecycle and data integrity. This role oversees scanning, indexing, ROI, patient portal support, and privacy compliance, ensuring defensible information management for care, billing, audits, and legal requests.

The position requires strong leadership to drive standardization, automation, and analytics while managing vendor relationships and risk.

Formación

• Bachelor’s degree in health information management, health informatics, healthcare administration, business administration, or related field.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Provide enterprise leadership over the medical record lifecycle and health information governance.
• Oversee document scanning, indexing, quality controls, data integrity, ROI, and patient portal support.
• Collaborate with CDI, HIM, IT, Revenue Cycle, Compliance/Privacy/Legal to improve data quality and reduce risk.
• Lead standardization, automation, analytics, and vendor strategy across HIM operations.

Educación

Bachelor’s degree in HIM/related field

Master’s degree preferred

Descripción del empleo

Overview

UF Health Revenue Cycle is seeking a Director of Health Information Management to join their team!

The Director of Health Information Management (HIM) provides enterprise leadership over the medical record lifecycle and health information governance, including document scanning,indexing and quality controls, data integrity (chart corrections/amendments), patient portal request support (e.g., MyChart), and release of information (ROI). This leader is accountable for record availability, integrity, privacy, retention, and defensibility to support patient care, billing and appeals, audits, and legal requests - while advancing standardization, automation, analytics, and vendor strategy. The Director partners closely with Clinical leaders, Compliance/Privacy/Legal, Information Technology (IT), Revenue Cycle, and Coding/Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI) to improve data quality, reduce operational friction, and manage risk.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in health information management, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration, or a related field required.
• Master’s degree preferred.

Experience

• Minimum of seven (7) years of progressive Health Information Management (HIM) experience required.
• Minimum of three (3) years of leadership experience in a manager, director, or other leadership-level role.
• Experience in a complex hospital, health system, academic medical center, or multi-site healthcare environment preferred.

License/Certification/Registration

One of the following certifications is required:

• RHIA (Registered Health Information Administrator)
• RHIT (Registered Health Information Technician)

Preferred certifications include:

• CHPS (Certified in Healthcare Privacy and Security)
• CHDA (Certified Health Data Analyst)
• Other relevant HIM, privacy, informatics, or healthcare leadership certifications

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated expertise in team leadership, talent development, coaching, mentoring, succession planning, and building high-performing teams.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with Clinical Documentation Integrity (CDI), Health Information Management (HIM), Revenue Integrity, Billing Operations, and Information Technology (IT).
• Executive-ready written and verbal communication, facilitation, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Strong change leadership and continuous improvement mindset grounded in data, analytics, and performance outcomes.
• Demonstrated enterprise governance capabilities across the entire medical record lifecycle.
• Strong privacy, compliance, and risk management orientation with sound judgment and decision-making skills.
• Proven operational leadership experience in high-volume service environments, time-sensitive workflows, and complex healthcare operations.
• Deep knowledge of HIPAA privacy requirements, HIPAA security fundamentals, medical record disclosure practices, and Protected Health Information (PHI) management.
• Strong command of record retention requirements, legal hold processes, audit response procedures, and healthcare documentation regulations.
• Expertise in Release of Information (ROI) operations, medical record documentation standards, defensible release workflows, and information governance best practices.
• Working knowledge of document management systems, imaging and scanning workflows, indexing processes, record integrity management, and record corrections and amendments.
• Familiarity with patient portal request support operations, Epic MyChart functionality, service recovery best practices, and patient-facing HIM services.
• Experience with HIM automation technologies, vendor management platforms, and workflow optimization tools.
• Strong analytics and reporting expertise, including the ability to monitor and manage throughput and turnaround times, operational backlogs, quality metrics, unit-cost performance, and operational efficiency measures.
• Strong analytical, organizational, compliance, and leadership skills with a focus on operational excellence, information governance, patient privacy, and continuous improvement.