Vice President, IT Clinical Systems

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The Vice President, Information Technology (IT) Clinical Systems provides executive-level direction for the Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) application landscape. Reporting to the SVP, Chief of Clinical Systems, this leader oversees the Integrated Healthcare Applications team and holds accountability for the strategic vision, delivery, reliability, and lifecycle management of all modules and service lines throughout the network. This senior leader converts enterprise objectives into actionable portfolio roadmaps, ensuring application standardization and cross-domain integration while adjudicating dependencies, risks, and resource conflicts.

As a strategic partner to clinical and business leaders, the VP translates complex technology initiatives into decision-ready messaging for executive forums, ensuring that application investments drive significant clinical, operational, and financial value realization.

A day in the life of a Vice President, Information Technology (IT) Clinical Systems at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Lead, develop, and hold accountable the Integrated Healthcare Applications team; set clear performance expectations, define ownership boundaries across portfolios, conduct talent and succession planning, and build bench strength across the leadership team.
• Partner with the SVP, Chief of Clinical Systems to establish enterprise application strategy, priorities, and execution plans; cascade that direction into portfolio-level roadmaps, objectives, and measurable commitments for each Director.
• Own the integrated, cross-portfolio view of the enterprise application landscape resolving interdependencies, sequencing conflicts, and integration risks that span more than one Director's portfolio and cannot be resolved at the portfolio level.
• Apply deep cross-application knowledge of the integrated EHR and ancillary systems to evaluate design decisions, prevent siloed builds, and ensure changes in one module or service area are assessed for enterprise-wide clinical, revenue cycle, reporting, and interoperability impact.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for the Directors on high-impact scope, resource, schedule, vendor, and stakeholder issues; make timely decisions, adjudicate competing priorities, and drive issues through to resolution.
• Represent the application organization in executive forums including senior leadership, clinical governance, IT governance, and Board-level committees delivering clear, concise, audience-appropriate communication on strategy, performance, risk, financials, and trade-offs.
• Establish and report enterprise-level metrics for the application portfolio (delivery performance, system reliability, adoption, end-user satisfaction, optimization throughput, and value realization); ensure a single, credible source of truth for executive reporting. Own the consolidated operating and capital budget for the Integrated Healthcare Applications organization; direct budget development, resource allocation, staffing models, and vendor/contract strategy to maximize return on investment and manage total cost of ownership.
• Direct enterprise-level assessment of the technical and application portfolio, identifying opportunities for…