Montana Rural Healthcare IT and HIM Leadership Opportunities

Rural Staffing Services•Montana, MT

45d•Hybrid

About The Position

Montana Rural Healthcare is seeking experienced IT and HIM leaders to join their network. This application may connect you with specific opportunities or other upcoming rural healthcare positions in Montana that align with your experience and goals. By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you help build a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, allowing experienced technology and health information leaders and Montana healthcare organizations to find each other more quickly. Every application strengthens a network of people willing to bring their experience, leadership, problem-solving skills, and heart to rural communities. Rural Staffing Services partners with various rural healthcare organizations across Montana to identify experienced IT and HIM leaders who understand the unique needs of rural and frontier healthcare. These opportunities may include leadership within Critical Access Hospitals, rural and community hospitals, Rural Health Clinics, Federally Qualified Health Centers, public hospital districts, tribal healthcare organizations, long-term care providers, and community healthcare organizations. Technology and health information are central to modern healthcare, especially in Montana, where dependable technology is essential for connecting patients, providers, and facilities across significant geographic distances. IT and HIM leaders ensure reliable systems, protect patient information, maintain accurate records, and support safe, efficient, and coordinated care. They may oversee infrastructure, cybersecurity, EHR systems, applications, technical support, business continuity, medical records, privacy, coding oversight, data integrity, release of information, and information governance. In rural and frontier communities, technology failures can have significant impacts, interrupting telehealth, delaying referrals, limiting access to records, and disrupting care coordination. Strong rural IT and HIM leaders understand that technology is about people, communication, trust, access, and providing employees with the tools they need to serve their communities. They are practical, responsive, collaborative, and can explain complex issues clearly. Leading in rural Montana offers the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work, whether it's connecting a clinic to specialty care, strengthening cybersecurity, implementing a new EHR, or improving data quality. The work requires adaptability, creativity, persistence, and a genuine commitment to service.

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, executive, tribal, and community 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, tribal healthcare organizations, 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, tribal healthcare programs, 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, reservations, or communities
Managing connectivity and system challenges in rural, frontier, or geographically isolated locations
Helping maintain essential systems during severe weather, 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