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Reporting to the Chief Information Officer (CIO) and serving as a senior leader within the Health Information Technology (HIT) division, the Vice President of Applications is accountable for the electronic health record (EHR), the enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform, and clinical application platforms of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC). The Vice President of Applications leads the clinical application team in partnership with the Chief Medical Informatics Officer, owns EHR governance and roadmap delivery, manages the enterprise EHR vendor relationship on which that roadmap depends, and ensures that the clinical systems on which care depends are reliable, well governed, and continuously improved.

As a member of the HIT senior leadership team and a partner to clinical leadership and the Tribal health organizations, the Vice President of Applications sets direction for the enterprise and clinical application portfolio and aligns it with organizational and clinical priorities.

• Lead the clinical application team, building a high-performing, service-oriented group of clinical application analysts and leaders, and fostering a culture of collaboration, transparency, and accountability.
• Set and own the strategy and roadmap for the EHR and clinical application portfolio, aligning it with organizational and clinical priorities.
• Own the delivery of the EHR roadmap, including the planning, scoping, staffing, governance, and internal execution required to meet committed milestones.
• Manage the enterprise EHR vendor relationship on which the roadmap depends, holding the vendor accountable to contractual commitments, tracking performance against them, escalating schedule and quality risk to executive leadership early enough to act, and maintaining contingency plans so that vendor non-performance is surfaced and mitigated rather than absorbed by the organization.
• Balance and prioritize the EHR roadmap across the needs of ANTHC and its Tribal health organization partners in a transparent manner, connecting delivery decisions to available roadmap capacity and vendor commitments so that partners can see how priorities and tradeoffs are set.
• Own ERP platform operations, including the planning, configuration, staffing, governance, and internal execution required to keep the enterprise system of record reliable, current, and well supported.
• Manage the ERP vendor relationship on which the platform depends, holding the vendor accountable to contractual commitments, tracking performance against them, escalating delivery and quality risk to executive leadership early enough to act, and maintaining contingency plans so that vendor non-performance is surfaced and mitigated rather than absorbed by the organization.
• Own EHR and clinical application governance, including the intake, prioritization, and delivery of clinical system change and enhancement requests through the appropriate governance bodies, in collaboration with clinical, regional, and Tribal health organization leaders.
• Own the clinical informatics function, holding it accountable for EHR usability, clinician adoption, and reduction of documentation burden.
• Partner with the clinical and biomedical engineering teams by owning the clinical application interfaces and integrations that connected medical devices rely on, so that device data flows reliably into the EHR and clinical systems.
• Support enterprise data and analytics functions by ensuring that EHR and clinical application data is well structured, governed, and accessible through supported interfaces and extracts, in partnership with the teams accountable for analytics and reporting.
• Support the telehealth program by ensuring the clinical application platforms and integrations on which it depends are reliable and well governed, in partnership with the clinical leaders accountable for telehealth.
• Lead clinical application rationalization and lifecycle management, ensuring the…