State EHR Project Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project management activities for the planning and implementation of a state-sponsored EHR solution.
• Coordinate activities across vendors, state agencies, healthcare providers, and other stakeholders.
• Monitor vendor contracts, project timelines, milestones, deliverables, and contractual requirements.
• Lead requirements gathering, landscape assessments, gap analyses, and market research related to EHR solutions.
• Support EHR platform procurement and implementation partner selection.
• Provide subject matter expertise in enterprise healthcare software implementation.
• Manage complex, cross-vendor and multi-stakeholder project activities.
• Facilitate communication and coordination among internal and external project stakeholders.
• Support implementation of EHR reporting feeds and interoperability with the Rhode Island Department of Health, health plans, and Health Information Exchange.
• Monitor outcomes and reporting data from the selected EHR solution.
• Ensure project activities align with applicable healthcare, security, privacy, and reporting requirements.
• Prepare and maintain project documentation, status updates, timelines, risks, issues, and deliverables.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience managing EHR implementation, migration, or conversion projects.
• Experience managing enterprise software implementations, preferably within a healthcare environment.
• Strong knowledge of Health IT interoperability and clinical data standards.
• Experience coordinating complex projects involving multiple vendors and stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of healthcare technology, data exchange, and reporting requirements.
• Experience with requirements gathering, gap analysis, and/or technology landscape assessments.
• Excellent organizational, communication, problem-solving, and project management skills.
• Ability to independently manage competing priorities and track deliverables across a large stakeholder group.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Project Management, Healthcare Administration, a licensed health profession, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Experience

• Experience with Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) or Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs).
• Knowledge of HL7, FHIR, clinical data exchange, and healthcare interoperability.
• Experience with HIPAA, healthcare data privacy/security, and state or federal healthcare reporting requirements.
• Experience supporting public-sector or government healthcare IT initiatives.
• Experience managing EHR procurement and implementation partners.