Healthcare Implementation - Project Manager

RESPONSIBILITIES:

One of Kforce’s clients in the Terre Haute, IN area is seeking a contractor Project Management role within Information Services on the Physician Office Implementation team.

Overview:
The Implementation Team is a fast paced, ever changing environment within the Information Services department where the team delivers the company’s Electronic Medical Record (Cerner) out to physician office practices that are associated/partnered with the healthcare system.

The IS strategy is to deploy meaningful customer-driven tools to the clinical workflow. Moving away from shadow charts to a fully electronic medical record will allow clinicians across all venues to have access to relevant and current patient data when providing care and services to patients in all facilities state wide. The overall objective of the Physician Office Implementation team is to bring all the physician office practices up on the healthcare system’s Cerner EMR as it complies with the Federal Government’s definition for meaningful use State II of an enterprise health record. This contractor Project Manager position will participate in the investigation, process design, development, deployment, and support of the EMR application out to the healthcare system and healthcare system Physicians group outpatient clinic locations. This project will be with the Union Hospital system located in Terre Haute, IN.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Must have relevant EMR project management experience; Cerner experience is not required but is considered favorable and anyone without EMR implementation experience will not be considered


• Must be able to manage multiple projects at a time and must be able to manage tasks, plans, resources, and expectations associated to those multiple projects


• Must have strong communication skills both written and verbal skills due the level at which must communicate status/progress at executive levels of the organization


• Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills


• Must be able to work in a dynamic team environment as well as work independently


• May be from outside the Indianapolis area but local individuals are preferred due to nature of the client’s implementation program