OCTO Lead Healthcare Information Governance

Overview OCTO is looking for a resource to serve as a Principal Healthcare Information Governance within the Enterprise Cloud Information Services Team. On April 15th, 2025 the United Medical Center permanently (UMC) closed as Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center GW Health opened to service the residents in Ward 8. OCTO's Enterprise Cloud and Infrastructure Service's (ECIS) team has been asked to support the closure of UMC including providing data, infrastructure, networking, and telecommunication services. ECIS is looking for a qualified resource to serve as Principal Healthcare Information Governance to provide expertise related to the support of a healthcare facility. Responsibilities Coordinates IT project management, engineering, maintenance, QA, and risk management. Plans, coordinates, and monitors project activities. Develops technical applications to support users. Develops, implements, maintains, and enforces documented standards and procedures for the design, development, installation, modification, and documentation of assigned systems. Provides training for system products and procedures. Performs application upgrades. Performs monitoring, maintenance, or reporting on real- time databases, real-time network and serial data communications, and real-time graphics and logic applications. Troubleshoots problems. Ensures project lifecycle is in compliance with District standards and procedures. Minimum Education/Certification Requirements Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience Candidate Skills Matrix Following sections are to be filled by the candidate: Skills | Required/Desired | No. of Years | How many years of experience candidate has? Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field or equivalent experience | Desired | 10 years | Lead the strategy for the long-term management, storage, and legal retention of legacy health records (paper and electronic) post-hospital closure. | Required | 8 years | Ensure complete compliance with federal and state retention rules (HIPAA, CMS, Joint Commission) governing the handling and retention of medical recd | Required | 8 years | Establish structured archival systems and manage contracts with third-party records storage vendors or cloud archive providers. | Required | 8 years | Oversee controlled data migrations from legacy EHRs into the parent organization’s clinical data warehouse or long-term archive. | Highly desired | 8 years | Maintain audit-ready systems for release of information, litigation holds, and public records requests post-closure. | Required | 8 years | Train remaining staff or designated system stewards on compliant document handling protocols and long-term retrieval mechanisms. | Required | 8 years | Establish indexing, tagging, and destruction policies for medical, billing, and administrative documents per retention schedules. | Highly desired | 8 years | Conduct periodic audits to confirm data preservation integrity and security in the archival environment. | Required | 5 years | Background check Extensive criminal history background check will be required. We cannot submit candidates with recent histories (go back seven years) of extensive driving, drug, robbery or any other illegal activity. Any criminal activity on the background check will eliminate the candidate from consideration. If selected, please make certain that you inform all candidates that they will have to complete this criminal background check prior to starting. NATIONAL background checks are required; Federal background checks are NOT compliant under this contract. A national background check is a national criminal background check that pulls criminal records from State and County Courts in almost every US State. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Created: 2025-10-06