Boston Medical Center (BMC) · 3 months ago
EHR Portfolio Manager
Quincy, MA
Full-time
Hybrid
Mid, Senior Level
5+ years expBoston Medical Center (BMC) is a 511-bed, equity-led academic medical center and a proud member of the Boston Medical Center Health System. The EHR Portfolio Manager is responsible for the coordination and development of the EHR IT Teams Portfolio, overseeing project tracking, governance, and alignment with organizational goals while collaborating with various stakeholders.
Health CareHospitalMedicalNon Profit
Responsibilities
Maintain 3-5 yr EHR roadmap, strategic alignment tools
Facilitate annual EHR roadmap sessions with EHR directors and Hospital Exec Stakeholders
Own continuous improvement of tools & process (driver diagram, annual exec roadmap/goal alignment discussions)
Communicate/disseminate info from exec roadmap to impacted user group leadership and other stakeholders
Track and monitor EHR project progress – baseline data, inter-project dependencies, milestones, costs, resourcing, etc
Assist and develop comprehensive business cases, clearly outlining project objectives, ROI potential, and strategic benefits to facilitate informed executive decision-making
Conduct financial assessments of proposed projects, ensuring optimal resource utilization and cost-effective implementation of technology solutions
Prepare program proposals, anticipated outcomes, and alignment with organizational objectives
Synthesize large and complex data sets into executive-ready summaries, presentations, and visualizations to support strategic decision-making and communicate key insights to senior leadership
Monitor Service Now INC/REQ queues to assist in triage and ensure all EHR teams are meeting SLAs
Facilitate annual EHR roadmap planning sessions with EHR directors (prior to capital budget season)
Stay informed of hospital/system wide priorities to ensure work in EHR Portfolio is aligned
Work with application managers and team leads to ensure teams are keeping IT work tracking tools up to date (Planview and Service Now)
Provide monthly, quarterly, annual EHR team wide report out on work stats to all stakeholder groups (internal & external)
Keep aligned with ITS PMO on project management standards and IT governance process
Establish and reinforce EHR Project Management standards and tools
Assist in assessing larger EHR strategic initiatives
Facilitate weekly Epic PM meeting with Epic TS/BFF
Perform project intake and prioritization and leveraging project scoring tool log to assess impacts to the portfolio
Facilitate monthly EHR gate 2 meeting (formerly EHR Interdisciplinary Committee)
Provide required report outs to IT Governance for all inflight work, completed projects, and new project demands being recommended by committee
Maintain and update committee charter, attendee list/invite, and other key documents
Continually strive to improve effectiveness of committee to help drive org wide goals
Facilitate weekly EHR Portfolio/leadership meeting with all EHR managers, team leads, directors, CMIOs, CNIOs, key IT leaders and EHR PMs (accidental, PMO and consultant)
Establish good product management principles and framework with leadership
Mentor & Support EHR “accidental PMs” with using Planview and IT PMO project management standards (Waterfall and Agile)
Assist EHR Resource Managers & PMs with ITS PPM tool Planview up to date via relevant key data points: work allocations for projects, Other Planned Work, etc
Guide and mentor project managers to enhance their skills and ensure successful project delivery
Ensure EHR governance framework, documentation and tools are maintained
Ensuring all UG's are functional and effective
Establish and reinforce UG facilitation Standards
Help support and move forward data governance related to EHR products, knowledge management programs
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree required
Minimum of 5 years hands-on experience in project/portfolio resource planning, reporting, prioritization, and budgeting
Experience leading projects and programs within IT, as well as projects and programs that involved stakeholders outside IT (e.g. clinical organizations, health system business areas, vendors, etc.)
Past experience that includes facilitation of project governance and responsibility for portfolio management and reporting
Experience using project management and portfolio management tools and software is required
Knowledge and experience with Epic, Service Now and/or Planview are strongly desired
Fosters and builds a collaborative working relationship with various stakeholders
Excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to adjust presentation style to suit intended audience
Ability to lead staff in both team and independent settings
Knowledgeable of project (e.g. PMBOK) and portfolio management best practices with the ability to adjust and implement within the organizational culture
Working knowledge of Agile project, product and portfolio management
A strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office products
Must be willing to challenge customers to better understand their needs
Ability to challenge the various stakeholders involved in project governance
Expert in project portfolio financial management
Competent in project and portfolio governance
Demonstrated experience managing large project portfolios including projects that have high visibility and risks
Preferred
Master's degree preferred
Certification as a Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP) a plus, but not required
Epic Certifications a plus, but not required
Company
Boston Medical Center (BMC)
Boston Medical Center (BMC) is a 511-bed, equity-led academic medical center and a proud member of the Boston Medical Center Health System.
5001-10000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$342.49MKey Investors
AmeriCorps Public AlliesNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)The Boston Foundation
2024-07-09Grant· $0.06M
2023-02-23Debt Financing· $232M
2019-04-23Grant· $89M
Leadership Team
David Beck
Senior Vice President & Chief Legal Counsel
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