HEALTHCARE TECHNOLOGY MANAGER

Fort Defiance Indian Hospital Board, Inc.•Fort Defiance Agency, AZ

3d•Onsite

About The Position

This role oversees, coordinates, plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates the Healthcare Technology Department program. The manager establishes program services, philosophy, and objectives, ensuring compliance with safety and accreditation standards from CMS, NFPA, IHS, NAIHS, and FDIHB, Inc. Responsibilities include developing fiscal year plans, formulating policies for the Hospital’s Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement Program, and implementing a comprehensive internal quality control system. The position ensures radiation safety for personnel working with x-ray equipment and provides technical expertise in selecting, installing, testing, repairing, and calibrating biomedical and dental instruments. The manager also offers consultation and training, reviews new designs for compatibility with medical instrumentation systems, monitors technical reports, and oversees the preparation of specifications and costs for medical systems and utility systems. Additionally, the role involves conducting technical reviews of contractor designs, interpreting codes and standards, ensuring employee training and professional development, overseeing departmental scheduling, conducting performance evaluations, and monitoring contractor work for payment authorization. The manager serves as the technical authority for the Healthcare Technology Management program, oversees the program budget, ensures compliance with regulations, participates in strategic planning, develops departmental procedures and budgets, and develops departmental policies. The position also involves serving on multi-disciplinary hospital committees and the Environmental of Care Committee.

Requirements

Four (4) years of direct work experience, including one (1) year of supervisory experience.
Bachelors' Degree in Healthcare Technology, Healthcare Administration, Business Administration or related field required.
A valid, unrestricted insurable driver’s license.
Resume and references are required.

Responsibilities

Oversees, coordinates, plans, organizes, implements, and evaluates the Healthcare Technology Department program.
Establishes program services, philosophy, and objectives, which reflect the purpose of the health care program and lays out plans to implement them.
Ensures the program meets all safety and accreditation standards set by CMS, NFPA, IHS, NAIHS, and FDIHB, Inc. and is responsible for written directives addressing decisions and compliance with administrative policies and procedures.
Develops fiscal year plans to evaluate progress and accomplishments in terms of program objectives.
Formulates policies to implement the Hospital’s Quality Assurance & Performance Improvement Program for continuing quality.
Develops and implements a comprehensive internal quality control system within the Healthcare Technology Program, develops statistical reports and control methods.
Ensures that all persons working with x-ray equipment are monitored for exposure to ionizing radiation on a continuous basis. Ensures that staff members, occupationally exposed to ionizing radiation are in full compliance with radiation safety regulations.
Provides technical expertise in the selection, installation and testing of biomedical and dental instruments and equipment, repairs, calibrate and performs preventive maintenance on biomedical and dental equipment, provides consultation and training services to professional, technical and administrative personnel in technical capabilities, applications and operational requirements of biomedical, radiological and dental equipment.
Consults with various medical disciplines on unique instrumentation problems, safety consideration and maintenance difficulties.
Reviews conceived recommendations of new design while assuring that designs are compatible with medical instrumentation systems. Resolves design and installation problems with contract or other personnel.
Monitors technical reports on projects, special investigations, studies, etc.
Oversees the preparation of design, specification and cost for various medical systems and sub systems to include utility systems such as medical gases, vacuum, heating, plumbing, air conditioning, ventilating, and pneumatic control systems.
Conducts technical reviews of contractor prepared designs and specifications for such systems. Interprets codes and standards, which apply directly and indirectly to biomedical engineering from concept to design, selection and classification of structure and equipment on remodels or new construction.
Ensures employees receive appropriate training and professional development opportunities, oversees scheduling for the department, conducts employee Performance Evaluations.
Monitors and determines whether Contractor work meets the standards of adequacy necessary for authorization of payment.
Serves as the service unit’s technical authority on the Healthcare Technology Management program, oversight of program budget, and ensures compliance with all governing codes, laws and regulations.
Participates in the long term planning initiatives established in Strategic Planning sessions.
Develops procedures and an annual budget for the department and monitors performance against budget.
Develops all departmental policies and serves on multi-disciplinary hospital committees responsible for developing hospital wide policies and procedures.
Serves as a key member on the Environmental of Care Committee.
Performs other duties as assigned.