HIM Director

Position Title: HIM Director

Contract Length: 6 Months

Start date: ASAP

Location: Hybrid (working PST hours)

Responsibilities:

• Oversee all aspects of Regulatory staffing, operations, systems, and expansion.
• Set vision and strategy for expanding regulatory teams that include both staff recruitment and retention strategies, and portfolio expansion strategies.
• Establish and operationalize policies, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and quality assurance processes that ensure program compliance; partner with CRS Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Program to align with existing policies and systems.
• Partner with Clinical Research Management (CRM) to establish and maintain well-defined work flows, roles and responsibilities, and communications to ensure effective integration between regulatory and clinical operations.
• Oversee management and system support for an enterprise-wide eRegulatory and eSubject management system, Florence, including on-boarding, training, SOP management, user group engagement, trial migration, and quality control.
• Create roadmap and oversee implementation of new Florence modules, functionality, and integrations with other Consortium systems.
• Identify Regulatory improvement opportunities and lead improvement efforts within team, including technology solutions; identify opportunities for expanding solutions to Consortium study teams.
• Lead change management across study teams in support of increased regulatory management; establish faculty relationships and channels of communications to keep faculty apprised of central regulatory operations.
• Form strong partnerships with disease group teams and Clinical Trials Program leaders, developing standard report-outs for each centrally managed portfolio.

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Business, Records Management or equivalent experience (Masters Degree preferred)
• Registered Health Information Administration Technician (RHIT) or Registered Health Information Administration (RHIA)
• Substantial experience in the health information management field.
• Significant experience as a manager of a HIM department.
• Knowledge of The Joint Commission, NCQA, CMRI and federal, state and local requirements for medical records
• Current knowledge of ICD9 and CPT4 coding system
• Strong experience with computerization and technology advances in health information.
• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.