Health Care IT Consultant

Kurt Salmon Associates, Inc. (KSA) is a leading management consulting firm specializing in the health care industry.   KSA’s Health Care Consulting group provides management advisory services in Facility Planning, Information Technology, and Strategy to multiple hospital systems, community hospitals and physician group practices.  The practice has more than 50 years’ experience and has served over 1,200 clients including many of the leading integrated health care organizations, academic medical centers, specialty and community hospitals, physician practices, managed care and non-acute care organizations. 

Practice Overview

The IT group works with its clients nationally to identify their current and future information technology needs and then facilitate the planning, selection, and implementation processes to achieve lasting results.  The IT team provides Strategic and Tactical Planning, System Selection and Contract Negotiation, Implementation Oversight/Project Management, Readiness Assessment, Infrastructure Planning and Design, Business Intelligence Planning and Implementation and other consulting services to their clients. 

Position Overview

The Health Care IT Consultant will work on multi-dimensional projects that demand functional knowledge and strong analytical, creative problem-solving, and interpersonal skills. Representative projects include but are not limited to development of an IT strategic plan, facilitation of a vendor selection process for a particular application suite development of a business intelligence/data warehouse strategy, readiness assessment for advanced clinical automation, and IT planning for new facilities.

Position Responsibilities

• Work with client and KSA leaders to articulate the strategic and tactical issues requiring attention. Contribute to the development of strategic, operational and technological solutions to address these issues.
• Build an understanding of clients’ challenges and possible solutions by performing extensive analyses of marketplace, patient, financial and other data and by facilitating problem solving sessions with diverse clients. 
• Collaborate with client and KSA staff to develop and present findings and recommendations.
• Develop and share subject matter expertise regarding relevant industry segments including, but not limited to, the planning and design of IT systems, vendor selection, project management, and other specialty areas.

As the Consultant’s career progresses, he or she will assume a larger role in the management of projects, guiding other Consultants and the client's staff in developing alternative solutions and approaches to complicated issues.

Candidate Qualifications

• MHA, MPA, MBA or other related advanced degree required.
• 2 - 5 years of experience in a health care setting or other related environment. Prior consulting experience in health care setting preferred.
• Familiarity with healthcare technology marketplace and product-specific knowledge is a plus.
• Distinctive academic performance and leadership experience.
• Energetic and passionate about serving clients, continual learning, professionalism and personal resilience.
• Keen problem-solving skills and demonstrated quantitative analysis skills.
• Demonstrated verbal and written interpersonal skills.
• Extensive literacy with spreadsheet and presentation software.
• Ability to work in the U.S. with unlimited work authorization.

Location and Travel

Consultants are assigned to our Atlanta or New York offices. Travel to client sites averages up to 50 percent of business days.

How to Apply:

Please click on the link below to apply directly http://KSARecruiting.kurtsalmon.com/Prospect.aspx?JobPostingID=18