MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Qualified candidates must possess a bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a information technology field and 4 years of professional IT experience, preferably in a health or human services environment, that must have included major project management responsibility.
A Master’s degree will substitute for one year of the required experience. Additional professional IT experience may be substituted for the bachelor’s degree at the rate of 1 year of experience for 30 credit hours.

DESIRED OR PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Preferred candidates should possess expertise in applications development and support for partitioned IBM Power 10 and IBM Power 8 using IBMi V7R4 Operating Systems in CLP, FREE, RPGLE, RPG, S36 OCL, S36 RPG, WrkQry and iACS Access Client Administration/maintenance.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

Employees in this classification may be subject to call-in 24 hours a day and, therefore, may be required to provide the employing agency with a telephone number where the employee can be reached.

This main purpose of the Manager, Hospital Management Information System position is to provide program and management functions with the help of staff and resources within the MDH Hospital Management Information System to ensure accurate and timely data is delivered to all MDH mental health facilities for continuing patient care and patient/staff safety, patient monthly billings, and to MDH partners to meet regulatory reporting and professional standing requirements.
This position will communicate with the Program Director as required to receive direction and advice as to current and new projects and to advise the Director of current project status.
MDH facilities encompass across 13 hospital facility sites and 3 long term or assisted living sites with an inpatient count of about 1500 at any one time and include 4 or 5 pharmacies providing medication. MDH partners include The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), patient billing; The Joint Commission (TJC), professional facility accreditation; The FBI National Criminal Background Check System (NICS) and The Maryland State Police and Gun Center (MDSP), regulatory handgun purchase requirements.
The position assists with HMIS Staff in the maintaining of all disaster and recovery procedures to ensure continuing data security and encryption procedures as outlined in the CISA CSET evaluation and OLA Legislative Audit Security and Procedures Manual.