We have a requirement with our direct client for an IT Healthcare Consultant Position: IT Healthcare Consultant Duration: 9 months Location: Columbia, SC Submission Deadline: 18 March Rate: OPEN Please include resume, rate, current location, and contact info all in one email. This information is vital to our screening process and prompt selection of your candidates for submittal to our direct clients. Responsibilities: The Senior Healthcare and Technology Consultant will be responsible for the supporting the MMIS project leadership in meeting the program’s goals and deliverables in 2014. The focus will be on helping the program team refine strategy, ensure the strategy aligns with industry directions, resolve complex project dependencies, outline implementation approaches (in-house work/expertise, RFPs, etc…). • Support Transformation Vision and Direction – Drive refinement of the MMIS strategy and its impact to the enterprise architecture and infrastructure planning across the organization – Understand the complexity of the Medicaid environment and be able to effectively envision, communicate and facilitate a path to transformation – Assist the team in developing a services strategy and the capacity to govern and operate a complex services-driven architecture – Facilitate strategic planning and advise program leadership, CIO and executive staff on impacts – Connect program efforts with emerging and new technologies (within Medicaid/Health IT and beyond) and their potential impact for the organization • Drive Project Planning and Ensure Timely and High-Quality Deliverables – Drive refinement of the MMIS strategy toward an operational strategy – Support development, refinement of the project schedule with an emphasis on identifying risk, developing alternatives, and ensuring the plan can be executed – Support the development of internal project plans and staffing and/or RFPs as needed in support of the program – Keep the program team on track and schedule including the delivery of key milestones in 2014 Required Skills: · Experience working as a consultant in support of an organization and senior executives · Experience in healthcare IT such as claims payment, insurance systems, health data analytics, and/or enterprise-class EHR/EMR (hospital systems) · Experience leading teams and/or organizations through significant process transformation · Experience leading small high-performing teams using agile methodologies · Application and/or systems development experience (multi-tier service-based architectures and mainframe architectures) · Experience as a driver of business process improvement including operational efficiency, service delivery and information management across an organization · Expertise in budget planning, financial management, and resource management including the ability to develop cost-effective approaches to organizational needs · Ability to communicate effectively both written and orally including the abilities to work senior leaders (inside and outside the organization) and to articulate technology solutions in business terms · Willingness and ability to effectively engage with people and organizations on a continuous basis · Knowledge of trends in technology and application development and a passion and excitement to remain open to new and changing ideas and approaches · At least 8 years of experience in Information Technology and 3 years of experience in a leadership or management role · 2-4 years Business process improvement · 2-4 years expert leadership skills · 4-6 years expert IT Healthcare Systems · 1-2 years Agile/Scrum Methodology · 2-4 years financial management · 2-4 years resource management · 2-4 years mainframe architectures · 2-4 years multi-tier service-based architectures · 2-4 years application development Preferred Skills: · Experience in health care information technology including public sector (Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare), commercial insurance, and/or hospitals or other health providers · Experience in IT and/or business operations for government payer programs (Medicaid or Medicare) · Experience with IT and/or eligibility operations for Medicaid, SNAP and/or TANF programs · Understanding of the Medicaid Information Technology Architecture (MITA) Understanding of the Medicaid Enterprise Certification Toolkit (MECT) Please include resume, rate, current location and contact info all in one email.to [email protected]
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:01:34 +0000
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