Sr Director

Title: Sr Director - Laboratory Informaticist

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Work Location: 55 Water Street, New York / Hybrid-Remote

Initial Contract: 13 weeks

Pay Range: $ /hr on W2 all-inclusive without benefits

Start: Upon completion of compliance and initiation of credentialing with the Medical Staff Office

Job Description:

• The Sr. Director, Laboratory Informaticist will serve as the clinical and technical authority responsible for the strategic planning, implementation, and optimization of laboratory information systems (LIS) and their integration with a multi-site hospital health system's clinical and operational platform.
• This physician leader will bridge the gap between clinical laboratory medicine, information technology, and health system leadership, ensuring all informatics initiatives support high-quality patient care, operational efficiency, and adherence to all regulatory and accreditation standards.
• This role is approximately 80% remote and up to 20% on-site.
• This is subject to change especially for critical initiatives.
• The selected candidate must be able to come into the office and health system facilities to perform required work within 48 hours.

Summary of Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Provides Strategic Leadership in line with the mission and vision of NYC H+H
• Develop and execute the strategic vision for laboratory informatics, aligning system goals with the health system's overall clinical and operational strategy.
• Lead the integration of laboratory systems (LIS, middleware, instruments) with enterprise-wide electronic health records (EHR) and clinical systems across all multi-site facilities.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to executive leadership, IT, and clinical departments on best practices for lab data management, interoperability (e.g., HL7, and system optimization)
• Drive change management and adoption of new systems and workflows by clinical and laboratory staff.
• Oversee the smooth onboarding and transition of new laboratory systems, ensuring minimal disruption to clinical services and maximum data integrity.
• Design, validate, and optimize clinical and lab workflows impacted by new or existing LIS/HER integration to enhance efficiency, reduce errors, and support data-driven decision-making.
• Provide medical oversight on system build, validation, and testing activities, including ensuring accurate result reporting, reference range mapping, and critical value alerts.
• Analyze clinical and laboratory data to identify trends, areas for improvement, and opportunities for innovative informatics solutions.
• Provides leadership and guidance on Laboratory Quality, and Regulatory Compliance.
• Ensures continuous compliance of all laboratory informatics systems and processes with regulatory bodies, including CLIA, CAP, The Joint Commission, and data privacy standards (e.g., HIPAA).
• Lead the governance structure for laboratory data, establishing policies and procedures for data integrity, security, access, and retention.
• Direct system validation activities required for regulatory compliance for new lab instruments and interfaces.
• Monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to laboratory system functionality, turnaround times, and data quality, implementing quality improvement initiatives as needed
• Provide leadership and guidance in partnership with the Project Management team, identifies risks and concerns and develops corrective action and mitigation plans
• Participate in special projects as needed and perform other duties as assigned
• Other duties as assigned.

Certification(S)/NYS Licenses:

• Board Certification in Clinical Pathology,
• Anatomic Pathology, or combined Pathology.
• Board Certification or eligibility in Clinical
• Informatics (or equivalent experience).

Educational Level:

• M.D. or D.O. degree

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and other Requirements:

• Microsoft and/or Google suite Applications
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

Years of Experience:

• Healthcare experience required
• 5+ years training managerial experience preferred
• Managerial experience preferred