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Director of Clinical & Business Applications Job in Findlay, Ohio US

Director of Clinical & Business Applications

Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center - Findlay, OH

Posted: 12/9/2025 - Expires: 1/8/2026

Job ID: 292974188

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Job Description

*This position is eligible for a hybrid work setting

PURPOSE OF THIS POSITION

The Director of IT Applications provides strategic and operational leadership for Blanchard Valley Health System's application ecosystem, with a focus on maximizing value from our EHR (Cerner) and ERP platforms. This leader guides the development, deployment, and optimization of clinical and business applications, while helping the organization envision what's next. The Director partners closely with operational, clinical, and executive stakeholders to advance our digital roadmap, ensure strong governance practices, and promote a culture of collaboration and innovation.

The ideal candidate blends technical knowledge with strategic insight, is highly effective at gaining buy-in, and brings a forward-thinking mindset to improve care delivery, administrative efficiency, and the patient and staff experience.

JOB DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES

Duty 1: Application Strategy & Leadership - Lead the development and execution of the enterprise applications strategy, with emphasis on driving value from EHR, ERP, and other core systems. Work collaboratively with business and clinical leaders to align technology initiatives with organizational goals.

Duty 2: Governance & Prioritization - Define and guide application governance processes that ensure alignment with business priorities, resource capacity, and system lifecycle management. Facilitate informed decision-making, build consensus across stakeholders, and promote transparency.

Duty 3: Innovation & Future Planning - Scan the internal and external landscape to identify innovation opportunities. Evaluate and introduce forward-looking solutions that enhance patient care, staff experience, or operational efficiency, while mitigating risk and ensuring scalability.

Duty 4: Staff Management - Collaborates with CIO to ensure appropriate IT staff via effective recruitment, retention and development

Duty 5: Acquisition & Deployment - Oversees the development of detailed project schedules and manages the project budget, assessments, and service level agreements. Assists project managers on understanding and managing action items, risks/issues and all project deliverables. Facilitating project meetings and generating agendas/minutes. Driving projects through all deployment phases while reviewing project performance, and effect changes as needed to improve business processes and support critical business strategies.

Duty 6: Operational Management - Establishes policies, procedures, standards and objectives for applications management with the rest of the IS leadership team. Ensures that the system portfolio list is kept updated and relevant with impact analysis on each change, including version, upgrades, system capacity, hardware requirements, additional features/functionality and required resources. Maintains documentation of all current integration points (hardware/software) that would be impacted by changes to any of the systems

Duty 7: Operational Management - Collaborates with the team to develop integration and interoperability opportunities and strategy. Defines strategies and approaches for the effective sharing of information between systems. Provides direction and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the enterprise. Collaborates with the Process Improvement department to ensure efficiencies and optimization of business and clinical workflow and continuous improvement of systems and technology use.

Duty 8: Operational Management - Manages strategic relationships with key associates and IT strategic partners. Drives adoption of policy where necessary. Develops measurable department goals and obje

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Job Summary

Employment Type:
Full Time Employee
Job type:
Regular Employment
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Education Level:
High school graduate
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