IT

Tech gurus, welcome. Clinical leaders, welcome too. Enter an environment where the forefront spins and evolves like a Rubik’s Cube. We constantly integrate smarter equipment to promote safer, better care.

Can you keep up with the pace? One that saves lives and brightens careers? Then step up and live it. Our jobs are beyond dynamic. They’re defined by the skillful integration of “smart” medical equipment. People in most other IT systems do “bread and butter” transaction work. We’ve had that down since the late ‘90s.

Our work is ever-expanding. You’re never just a security jock or a server jock. Now it’s all about seamlessly connecting technology, strategy and operations into all patient services. We’ve incorporated biomedical and telecommunications with clinical IT (an industry first). This creates an ever-better, ever-accelerating hospital system.

Hospital-Wide Impact
Our careers touch every clinical area. We’re in pharmacy, radiology, the laboratories, the OR, HIM (medical records), credentialing and more. With bedside barcoding, our focus now also incorporates the patient “point of care.” Working with nurses, allied health colleagues and physicians, we’ve helped identify the “five rights” of barcoding in patient care, from the front-end to billing and access. Our system assists clinicians and can even warn them before any possible clinical error is made. Currently in place at NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital, we have plans to unroll this initiative further.

Wired for Greatness
Our IT professionals team with major players in Silicon Valley to premiere the latest healthcare infrastructures and software. For example, our work with Microsoft (and their program HealthVault) has yielded success in MyNYP.org (see below for details). We’ve even built a high-speed fiber optics ring around the island of Manhattan, allowing every campus to connect to our data center. Most of our IT professionals are based in the corporate office but travel frequently. Some of our staff members are now even based in clinical units. For example, in the new Greenberg 14 floor of NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Clinical Lab Department has actually carved out space for IT professionals (because they’re so in demand!). Join us to change lives by fully integrating the clinical process.

• Where We Work
• NewYork-Presbyterian/The Allen Hospital
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
• NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center
• NewYork-Presbyterian/Westchester Division

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• Prerequisites for IT
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, but not required
• Experience and a passion for healthcare

Awards and Recognition
NewYork-Presbyterian was listed by Computerworld magazine as one of the country’s “Best Workplaces for Information Technology.” A first for the hospital, this ranking is based on a survey conducted and published in 2009.

Education and Training
Through vendor presentations and conferences, IT professionals specializing in applications are constantly kept abreast of what’s new and what’s next. IT professionals specializing in infrastructure are able to pursue and be certified for new Citrix levels with generous to full reimbursement.

MyNYP.org
MyNYP.org is an innovative online medical records system (EMR) that empowers patients by giving them access to their medical information in a safe environment. Patients have the ability to select and store information generated during their doctor and hospital visits. This makes the consumer the focal point of the medical records process. MyNYP.org presents a host of never-been-considered challenges in terms of access, distribution of information, etc., and we are driving and deriving these answers on a daily basis. The forefront of EMR is here and now. Be a part of it.

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Patient Story
We recently had a very ill patient with a very personal goal: to be out of the hospital by a certain date because his daughter was getting married. As it turns out, health complications extended his stay. Flying to the wedding became out of the question.

On a Friday, the IT department learned of this patient’s story. A request was made to help this man be a part of his daughter’s wedding. The challenge: his daughter’s wedding was on the following day. Hearing about this story at 4 p.m. on a Friday, our systems were ready to go by 1 p.m. that Saturday. The patient, from his room, virtually experienced his daughter’s wedding.

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