IT Epic Sr Project Manager

Where You’ll Work

Inspired by faith. Driven by innovation. Powered by humankindness. CommonSpirit Health is building a healthier future for all through its integrated health services. As one of the nation’s largest nonprofit Catholic healthcare organizations, CommonSpirit Health delivers more than 20 million patient encounters annually through more than 2,300 clinics, care sites and 137 hospital-based locations, in addition to its home-based services and virtual care offerings. CommonSpirit has more than 157,000 employees, 45,000 nurses and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice providers across 24 states and contributes more than $4.2 billion annually in charity care, community benefits and unreimbursed government programs. Together with our patients, physicians, partners, and communities, we are creating a more just, equitable, and innovative healthcare delivery system.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

Job Summary

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Senior Epic Project Manager to lead and manage the Epic Revenue implementations. This role requires a strong understanding of Epic Revenue (Grand Central, HIM, Hospital Billing, Professional Billing, and Reporting) workflows and functionalities.

The project management roles are key contributors in the development of the organization's transformation strategy and are responsible and accountable for delivering the best-practice approach designed to successfully plan and prepare for all aspects of project engagement, delivery and adoption within the assigned portfolio. They are accountable for the project objectives that drive transformation, customer experience, and other activities as assigned by the Director.

The Project Managers are responsible to define areas including resource allocations, influencing sponsors and managing work prioritization. They play an active role in making decisions involving human resources, technical and financial resources necessary to implement change for high impact environments. They design processes and structures to support CommonSpirit Health enterprise wide change.

The Senior Epic Project Manager is a contributor of early engagement, project gap analysis and operational change management. Will include innovation project lifecycle delivery, promoting successful relationship management and customer adoption. They are expected to contribute to the continuous improvement of the project management lifecycle methodology. They are assigned to medium or large, complex projects. Will be assigned to multiple projects, with rare exceptions and can be assigned as a contributor project manager on programs.

Job Responsibilities

• Key resource for the organization encompassing the development of relationships between IT and the organization’s multiple customer constituencies, including: patients, consumers, providers, clinical staff, administrators, and employees across CommonSpirit Health.

• Responsible for the vital efficient operation of the organizations well-managed systems that will ensure the financial success and ability to cope with the pressures of shrinking revenues, and our market strategy to grow and expand into the future.

• Responsible for establishing and maintaining channels of communication between business, IT and other relevant stakeholders.

• Responsible for developing large scale project plans which identify key issues, problems, approaches, performance metrics, communication plan, resources required and ensuring deliverables of the IT initiatives.

• Responsible for the supervision of the project resources required to deliver each task (i.e. key areas could include: Business Analysts, Solution Architects, Design Engineers, Cybersecurity, Testing, etc.)

• Responsible for managing all aspects of the project from planning, design, development/implementation, testing, training, deployment, customer adoption and operation turnover of the ITD initiatives.

• Tracks assigned budget and resources for each project. Prepares cost estimates and cost recommendations. Monitors expenditures.

• Ensures compliance with all policies, financial stewardship by being accountable for the financial integrity around development and maintenance of project budget.

• Oversee and coordinate technical aspects of the Epic implementation, including data conversions, and integration of medical devices, ensuring data integrity and system functionality.

• Collaborate with clinical and operational stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into project deliverables.

• Provide guidance and support to project team members on Epic best practices.

Job Requirements

Required

• Bachelors Other Related Field or Equivalent Professional Experience., upon hire.
• 7+ years of experience in project management within the healthcare industry, with a focus on Epic implementations required.
• 7+ years with strong functional understanding of hospital, clinic and billing operations.
• 3+ Multi-hospital and large project management experience.
• Possess a deep understanding of Epic Revenue (Grand Central, HIM, Hospital Billing, Professional Billing, and Reporting) workflows and functionalities.
• Project Management experience in a Health care environment.
• Experience in Project Management methodologies and tool sets – waterfall/agile/scrum, planning, issue escalation, problem resolution, conflict and collision management, metrics and reporting, communications, etc.

• Possess thorough understanding of Healthcare Business and Care Delivery processes.

• Possess strong understanding of digital technology, clinical information systems, and how clinical information is integrated into the patient, consumer, and provider digital experience.

Preferred

• EPIC Certification.
• Project Management Professional.