Oregon Rural Healthcare IT and HIM Leadership Opportunities

Rural Staffing Services•Oregon, OR

45d•Hybrid

About The Position

This application connects experienced technology and health information leaders with current or upcoming rural healthcare positions throughout Oregon. Rural Staffing Services partners with various rural healthcare organizations across Oregon to find leaders who understand the unique needs of rural healthcare. These roles focus on ensuring reliable systems, protecting patient information, maintaining accurate records, and supporting telehealth and coordinated care. The ideal candidates are practical, responsive, collaborative, and can explain complex technical or regulatory issues clearly. Leading in rural communities means understanding that technology is about people, communication, trust, access, and providing employees with the necessary tools to serve their communities.

Requirements

Progressive experience in healthcare IT, information systems, HIM, medical records, clinical informatics, privacy, cybersecurity, data management, or technology operations
Previous leadership experience as a director, manager, supervisor, CIO, privacy officer, security leader, or comparable professional
Experience with healthcare systems, EHR platforms, networks, infrastructure, applications, telehealth, data, privacy, or records management
Knowledge of HIPAA, information security, health information regulations, documentation standards, and data governance
Experience managing projects, vendors, contracts, budgets, implementations, integrations, or system upgrades
Experience supporting cybersecurity, disaster recovery, backup, access management, or business continuity
Strong communication, problem-solving, project-management, and team-development skills
Experience working with clinical, operational, financial, compliance, and executive leaders
The ability to translate technical or regulatory information into practical guidance for employees and leaders
Experience supporting multi-site organizations or services spread across significant geographic distances may be valuable
Experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, public hospital districts, regional health systems, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations
Relevant education, certification, or technical credentials based on the position
A practical, responsive, collaborative, and service-focused leadership style

Nice To Haves

Credentials such as RHIA, RHIT, CHPS, CPHIMS, CISSP, PMP, HCISPP, or another healthcare information, privacy, security, informatics, or technology certification.

Responsibilities

Providing strategic and operational leadership for IT, HIM, information systems, privacy, security, or clinical informatics
Supporting reliable technology, infrastructure, networks, devices, connectivity, and applications
Leading EHR optimization, implementation, upgrades, integrations, and user support
Strengthening cybersecurity, access controls, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity
Protecting patient information and supporting HIPAA, privacy, and security compliance
Overseeing medical records, document integrity, release of information, retention, and legal health record standards
Supporting accurate data, reporting, analytics, master data, and information governance
Managing vendors, contracts, budgets, projects, equipment, and long-term technology planning
Leading help desk, systems administration, applications, network, infrastructure, HIM, or technical support teams
Supporting telehealth, remote consultation, and communication between rural clinics, regional hospitals, and specialty providers
Developing policies, procedures, security standards, workflows, and internal controls
Supporting privacy, security, coding, documentation, audit, and regulatory readiness
Collaborating with clinical, operational, finance, revenue cycle, compliance, and executive leaders
Training employees and helping teams adopt new systems, security practices, and workflows
Improving the connection between technology, information, clinical care, and organizational performance
Supporting technology and information services across multiple facilities, clinics, or communities
Managing connectivity and system challenges in rural or geographically isolated locations
Helping maintain essential systems during weather events, wildfire impacts, equipment failures, or other emergencies
Supporting infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, system replacement, or organizational growth
Helping ensure patient information remains secure, accurate, accessible, and available when care teams need it