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What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
- EHR Manager
- Director of EHR
- Manager of Clinical Applications
- Director of Clinical Informatics
- EHR Optimization Manager
- EHR Training and Adoption Manager
What does an open seat cost you every week?
An open role costs you more than the recruiting fee. Someone covers the work, waits for care, or stops a service. We ask what is falling behind and who is carrying it. Use your own figures to compare the cost of waiting with the cost of hiring.
The seat is costing you every week.
Overtime, diverted patients, a stretched team and a schedule held together by favors.
The posting brought the wrong people.
Applicants arrive, but the person who has done this exact work is employed and not looking.
You are the one chasing.
Screening calls, no-shows and follow-ups land on the desk of someone with a facility to run.
What does this hire really come down to?
A Director of EHR Applications directs the people and decisions behind clinical application changes. On a typical week, this leader reviews intake requests, assigns analyst work, tests a release, investigates an interface issue, and explains what a requested change will alter for staff, reporting, and support teams.
Decide whether you need stabilization, modernization, or clearer governance before interviews begin. Duplicate documentation, unreliable reports, and recurring support tickets may stem from build, access, training, interface data, or a local policy.
Ask candidates about a release that created defects, a difficult downtime event, or two departments seeking incompatible workflows. Strong answers name the facts gathered, the people who made the decision, the temporary process used during disruption, and the follow-up review. Technical knowledge matters, but so does the judgment to decline local customization when it creates future support work.
What do we check before you see anyone?
Confirm direct leadership with your deployed EHR platform. Ask which modules, interfaces, reporting tools, and vendor releases they directed. Clarify whether they owned build standards, analyst supervision, production approvals, or only contributed to a project team. Review one change from intake through production.
- Ask how they documented the clinical request, identified the accountable business owner, tested the build, obtained approval, and recorded the final configuration. You need traceability when a department later questions why a workflow changed.
- Examine downtime judgment. Ask how they distinguish an application problem from an interface, device, network, or access issue. Ask who receives updates, how teams track temporary workflows, and what the director reviews after service returns.
- Test governance skill with a realistic conflict. For example, if nursing and physicians request different documentation fields, ask how the candidate would frame the decision. Look for a named owner, evidence behind the recommendation, and a clear explanation for the departments affected.
- Ask how they interpret ticket, error, activity, and adoption data. A useful answer separates weak training from awkward build, missing security, duplicate records, interface failures, or unclear policy. Ask for an example of evidence that changed their first conclusion.
- Check people leadership alongside platform knowledge. Ask how they assign analyst work, review build quality, address repeated defects, and protect maintenance work when new requests arrive. Confirm who can make release or escalation decisions when the director is unavailable.
Where do we find them, and why would they move?
We recruit EHR application leaders from multi-facility health systems, academic medical centers, regional hospitals, and other provider organizations with established clinical applications teams. Some oversee broad portfolios. Others lead one platform while managing upgrades, governance meetings, analysts, interfaces, and clinician-facing change work.
People may consider a move when their current scope has narrowed, decisions remain unresolved, or they lack authority to retire old build. Others may want an upgrade, a system consolidation, or responsibility for a team that can address long-standing workflow and reporting problems. A credible role description explains which leaders attend governance meetings and who makes final decisions.
Which mistakes stall the search?
Do not hire an implementation leader without probing release management, defect ownership, support backlogs, and user adoption after go-live. Do not leave reporting lines vague when clinical leaders, finance, IT, and operations disagree about a requested change or release date.
Do not treat every clinician complaint as training before reviewing configuration, access, local workflow, interface data, and the policy behind the request.
How would we run the search for this opening?
List active modules, interfaces, major customizations, upcoming releases, unresolved tickets, and analyst vacancies. Bring a recent disputed request, failed interface, or downtime concern. We agree on scope, compensation range, reporting structure, interview participants, and fee terms before outreach begins. The director needs enough authority to identify the cause before assigning a fix.
Map the work awaiting the hire
Mark which decisions the director can make and which go to a committee or executive owner.
Use real interview scenarios
Ask how the candidate would gather facts, select decision makers, communicate the outcome, and document what should be reviewed after release.
Set the search terms
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire.
Where this search connects
Healthcare IT, Epic & Clinical Informatics
SpecialtyHospitals & Health Systems
SettingAcademic Medical Centers
SettingRevenue Cycle & Healthcare Services Companies
SettingChief Medical Information Officer (CMIO)
Related roleDirector of Clinical Informatics
Related roleEpic Clinical Analyst (Ambulatory, ClinDoc, OpTime, ASAP, Willow, Beaker, Radiant)
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What if a preferred candidate receives a counteroffer?
A counteroffer may arise when a current employer faces an application leadership gap. Keep the discussion focused on team scope, decision rights, technical debt, leadership access, and the changes you expect this person to own. Compensation may not be the only reason they consider a move.
Should we seek broad EHR experience or deep experience in our platform?
Deep experience in your platform matters when the director will immediately own build standards, releases, and analyst work. Broad experience can help during a governance redesign or system combination.
How should we assess clinical workflow judgment?
Present a conflict involving nursing, physicians, registration, billing, or reporting. Ask what facts the candidate would collect, who should decide, and how the final workflow would be documented.
What should we disclose during early conversations?
Describe the application portfolio, reporting structure, active projects, old customizations, and decision bottlenecks candidly. A director cannot judge the role from a platform name alone.
How do fees and replacement terms work?
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What should you send us about this role?
Send us the role, where the person will work and what needs to change with this hire. We will ask about the work, not just the title. Share any license or schedule limits that could rule someone out before we begin the search.
Tell us where EHR work stalls, who owns the disputed decisions, and what the director must address first. We will screen credentials, work history, and fit through concrete questions about that work.
No upfront fee. You pay only if you hire. We offer a candidate replacement guarantee on standard search agreements. The applicable period and exact terms are set out in the signed client recruiting agreement.
What happens next
- We review your role, responsibilities and location.
- Ivan or a senior team member will reach out soon.
- You meet a focused shortlist when qualified candidates fit the agreed search.
- Fees.
- No upfront fee. Pay only if you hire, under the signed agreement.
- Exclusivity.
- Set out in the signed client agreement.
- Confidentiality.
- We agree the brief before outreach. This is not a promise of absolute anonymity.
- No hire.
- No hire means no fee on standard searches.
Which other positions in this family should you consider?
Epic Application Manager / Epic Team Lead · Epic Credentialed Trainer
What do you get at each step of the search?
Our process for every search: calibrate the seat with you, map the market, research the real people, reach out to each one personally, qualify them in live conversation, then hand you a short list with a written brief on each person and support through the offer.
Search Calibration
You get an agreed brief: the work, reporting line, credentials, schedule, and offer you can make.
Market Mapping
You get a search aimed at relevant backgrounds, including people working now who have not applied.
Professional Contact Intelligence
We check appropriate ways to reach the people identified for your search. You do not have to chase them yourself.
Persistent Personalized Outreach
We explain your actual job and follow up with people who may consider a conversation.
Live Candidate Qualification
You see people we have spoken with about the work, interest, and practical fit, not an unread resume pile.
Candidate Intelligence and Process Support
You get a written brief and support through interviews and offer discussions. You make the hiring decision.
How long will it take to see a short list?
That depends on the job, schedule, available people, and what your employer can offer. We discuss those constraints before outreach and update you as candidates respond. We do not promise a fixed shortlist date. We check the job brief before arranging interviews. Tell us which parts of the role you can change.
What do we not do in a standard permanent search?
We do not bill standard contingency search by the hour or simply repost your job. Temporary coverage is a separate arrangement. Any retainer or different engagement must be agreed, not assumed. Tell us early if you need coverage while the permanent search runs.