Director of IT
Longhorn Health Solutions
Austin/San Antonio, TX
Summary:
We’ve been retained by Longhorn Health Solutions, www.longhornhealth.com, to find a Corporate Director of Information Technology, a newly created role. This is a great opportunity to be an integral part of a leadership team exponentially growing an established and successful company.
Company:
Longhorn Health Solutions, based in Austin, was founded in 2005. Initially they provided a broad range of patient medical supply management and delivery.
In 2015, under the leadership of CEO, James Whittenburg, Longhorn made a strategic shift in their business strategy that’s proven very successful. They are the first ones, under a capitated compensation model to take a value-based patientcare approach in incontinence care. Based on this progressive strategy, Longhorn Health Solutions has multiple capitated contracts to manage the incontinence needs for 30,000 patients in Texas. The Longhorn model provides better patient care at a reduced cost.
In 2020, RiverGlade Capital (www.rivergladecapital.com) made a strategic investment in Longhorn Health Solutions. Building on the foundational business model, RiverGlade is investing in building a more sophisticated infrastructure to aggressively scale the company. The technology component is an integral part of this.
RiverGlade is a healthcare services-focused private equity firm that invests in founder-owned, high-quality, differentiated businesses.
RiverGlade partners with companies that have demonstrated strong organic growth and where value can be accelerated through human capital investments, operational improvements, strategic planning, and dynamic organic and inorganic growth initiatives. They have an outstanding reputation and history of success in the healthcare services sector.
Longhorn Health is headquartered in Austin, TX. For several strategic reasons, as they grow, they’ll be establishing a predominant second location with a call center in San Antonio. They anticipate and are planning to double in size over the next 2-3 years.
Role:
Reporting to LC Wadel, Vice President of Operations, the Director of Information Technology will have ownership of application management, infrastructure, and security to help scale the business effectively; all things from a technology perspective.
The company has just migrated from Quickbooks to Sage Intacct for their financial systems. They us ADP for human resources, Tableau for business intelligence, Brightree for CRM, and an internally developed program, Datavail that is used for verification of patient eligibility. They also use Microsoft 365 and Azure with everything possible being cloud based, including Vonage for their telecommunication systems.
Reporting to this person will be a helpdesk person, a part-time software engineer, and a data analyst.
Ideal Candidate:
This person needs to have a demonstrated set of the following:
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Excellent project management skills
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Ability to assess resources and needs
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Is forward thinking
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Ability to assemble and lead teams, both internally and externally
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Able to work effectively at multiple levels
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Is a team player
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Has effective communication skills
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Is analytical and data driven
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Able to develop and manage KPIs
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Healthcare experience, understanding of HIPPA and compliance
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Cyber security,
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IT security
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Cloud infrastructure and web-based hosting services
If this is something you’re open to learning more about, I’m happy to talk with you and share more. You can reach me at 501-519-2514 or let me know the best time and # to reach you at.
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Don Rottman
501-519-2514