Alaska Rural Healthcare IT and HIM Leadership Opportunities

Help Us Build a Better Way for Rural Healthcare

This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions that align with your experience and goals.

By joining the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network, you are helping us build a more thoughtful and connected approach to rural recruitment, one that allows experienced technology and health information leaders and Alaska healthcare organizations to find one another more quickly when the right need arises.

Every application helps strengthen a growing network of people who are willing to bring their experience, leadership, problem-solving skills, and heart to rural, remote, and frontier communities.

Explore Rural Healthcare Opportunities at RSSJobs.org

This application may connect you with the specific opportunity you were viewing, as well as other current or upcoming rural healthcare positions throughout Alaska that align with your experience and goals.

Visit www.RSSJobs.org to explore additional rural healthcare opportunities and communities.

IT and HIM Leadership Opportunities Across Alaska

Rural Staffing Services partners with rural hospitals, clinics, Tribal health organizations, regional health systems, community health centers, long-term care providers, and community healthcare organizations throughout Alaska to identify experienced information technology and health information leaders who understand the unique needs of rural, remote, and frontier healthcare.

We are currently connecting with professionals who may be interested in active and upcoming IT, information systems, health information management, medical records, clinical informatics, cybersecurity, privacy, data, and technology leadership opportunities across Alaska.

These opportunities may include leadership within:

Critical Access Hospitals
Rural and community hospitals
Rural Health Clinics
Federally Qualified Health Centers
Tribal health organizations
Regional health corporations
Village-based healthcare programs
Long-term care and senior care organizations
Integrated rural healthcare systems
Multi-site and regional healthcare networks

This Is More Than an IT or HIM Role

Technology and health information are central to nearly every part of modern healthcare.

In Alaska, dependable technology can also be essential to connecting patients, providers, clinics, and hospitals across enormous geographic distances.

IT and HIM leaders help ensure employees have reliable systems, patient information is protected, records are accurate, telehealth connections remain available, and technology supports safe, efficient, and coordinated care.

These leaders may oversee everything from infrastructure, connectivity, cybersecurity, EHR systems, applications, technical support, and business continuity to medical records, privacy, coding oversight, data integrity, release of information, and information governance.

In rural and remote communities, technology failures may affect far more than routine office work. They may interrupt telehealth visits, delay referrals, limit access to patient records, disrupt communications, or make it more difficult to coordinate care between a village clinic and a regional hospital.

The strongest rural IT and HIM leaders understand that technology is not simply about systems.

It is about people, communication, trust, access, and making sure employees have the tools and information they need to serve their communities.

They are practical, responsive, collaborative, and able to explain complex technical or regulatory issues in ways that employees, providers, executives, and governing leaders can understand.

Opportunities May Include

This application may connect you with current or upcoming roles such as:

Chief Information Officer
Information Technology Director or Manager
Information Systems Director or Manager
Health Information Management Director or Manager
Medical Records Director or Manager
Clinical Informatics Director or Manager
EHR or Applications Manager
Network or Infrastructure Manager
Cybersecurity Director or Manager
Privacy Officer
Information Security Officer
Data Governance or Analytics Leader
Systems Administrator Leader
Telehealth Technology Leader
Regional IT or Information Systems Leader
Tribal Health IT or HIM Leader
IT Project or Implementation Manager
Senior IT, HIM, informatics, privacy, security, data, or records supervisory roles

What You May Lead

Responsibilities will vary by organization, community, and position and may include:

Providing strategic and operational leadership for IT, HIM, information systems, privacy, security, or clinical informatics

Supporting reliable technology, infrastructure, networks, devices, connectivity, and applications

Leading EHR optimization, implementation, upgrades, integrations, and user support

Strengthening cybersecurity, access controls, backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity

Protecting patient information and supporting HIPAA, privacy, and security compliance

Overseeing medical records, document integrity, release of information, retention, and legal health record standards

Supporting accurate data, reporting, analytics, master data, and information governance

Managing vendors, contracts, budgets, projects, equipment, and long-term technology planning

Leading help desk, systems administration, applications, network, infrastructure, HIM, or technical support teams

Supporting telehealth, remote consultation, and communication between village clinics, regional hospitals, and specialty providers

Developing policies, procedures, security standards, workflows, and internal controls

Supporting privacy, security, coding, documentation, audit, and regulatory readiness

Collaborating with clinical, operational, finance, revenue cycle, compliance, and executive leaders

Training employees and helping teams adopt new systems, security practices, and workflows

Improving the connection between technology, information, clinical care, and organizational performance

Supporting technology and information services across multiple facilities, clinics, or communities

Managing connectivity and system challenges in remote or geographically isolated locations

Helping maintain essential systems during weather events, transportation disruptions, equipment failures, or other emergencies

Supporting infrastructure modernization, cloud migration, system replacement, or organizational growth

Helping ensure patient information remains secure, accurate, accessible, and available when care teams need it

What You Will Bring

Qualifications will vary by opportunity, but organizations may seek:

Progressive experience in healthcare IT, information systems, HIM, medical records, clinical informatics, privacy, cybersecurity, data management, or technology operations

Previous leadership experience as a director, manager, supervisor, CIO, privacy officer, security leader, or comparable professional

Experience with healthcare systems, EHR platforms, networks, infrastructure, applications, telehealth, data, privacy, or records management

Knowledge of HIPAA, information security, health information regulations, documentation standards, and data governance

Experience managing projects, vendors, contracts, budgets, implementations, integrations, or system upgrades

Experience supporting cybersecurity, disaster recovery, backup, access management, or business continuity

Strong communication, problem-solving, project-management, and team-development skills

Experience working with clinical, operational, financial, compliance, and executive leaders

The ability to translate technical or regulatory information into practical guidance for employees and leaders

Experience supporting multi-site organizations or services spread across significant geographic distances may be valuable

Experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, Tribal health organizations, regional health corporations, long-term care providers, or community healthcare organizations

Experience working with Alaska Native communities, Tribal health organizations, Indian Health Service programs, or tribally operated systems may be highly valued for some opportunities

Relevant education, certification, or technical credentials based on the position

A practical, responsive, collaborative, culturally respectful, and service-focused leadership style

Some opportunities may prefer credentials such as RHIA, RHIT, CHPS, CPHIMS, CISSP, PMP, HCISPP, or another healthcare information, privacy, security, informatics, or technology certification.

Specific education, certification, travel, reporting, and experience requirements will depend on the organization and role.

Types of Opportunities

Opportunities may include:

Permanent IT or HIM leadership positions
Interim leadership assignments
Regional or multi-site technology leadership
Hospital or clinic-based positions
Tribal health IT or HIM leadership
Cybersecurity or privacy leadership
Clinical informatics leadership
Hybrid or remote opportunities
Temporary-to-permanent opportunities
System implementation or optimization assignments
Cybersecurity, compliance, or infrastructure stabilization projects
Short-term technical or information-management support

The schedule, compensation, relocation assistance, housing, travel requirements, reporting structure, departmental scope, and employment arrangement will be explained before you decide whether to move forward with a specific opportunity.

Why Rural Alaska?

Alaska's healthcare organizations serve communities spread across mountains, forests, tundra, rivers, islands, and thousands of miles of coastline.

Some communities are connected by highways. Others may be reached only by plane, boat, snowmachine, or seasonal transportation.

These distances make dependable technology and accurate health information especially important.

A stable network, secure EHR, reliable telehealth connection, accessible medical record, or responsive support team may determine whether a patient can receive specialty guidance without leaving home or whether a provider can safely continue care during an emergency.

Rural and remote healthcare organizations may also operate with smaller teams, limited local technical resources, challenging connectivity, aging infrastructure, and significant pressure to protect sensitive information.

Strong IT and HIM leadership can modernize systems, strengthen cybersecurity, improve documentation, protect patient privacy, support employees, and create better connections across entire regions.

Leading IT or HIM in Alaska offers the opportunity to see the direct impact of your work.

You may help connect a remote clinic to specialty care, strengthen cybersecurity, implement a new EHR, improve data quality, support a regional telehealth program, mentor local employees, or create systems that allow healthcare teams to work more safely and efficiently.

The work requires adaptability, creativity, persistence, cultural humility, and a genuine commitment to service.

Join the Rural Staffing Services Talent Network

By applying through this page, you are joining the confidential Rural Staffing Services Talent Network.

You may be considered for current or upcoming IT, HIM, information systems, privacy, security, clinical informatics, and data leadership opportunities throughout Alaska that align with your experience, goals, preferred region, and availability.

Please submit your resume and let us know:

Which Alaska communities or regions you would consider

Whether you are interested in road-system, rural, remote, frontier, village-based, or regional organizations

Whether you are open to relocation, regional travel, rotational schedules, or fly-in assignments

Whether you are interested in permanent, interim, hybrid, remote, or multiple types of opportunities

Your experience with rural hospitals, Critical Access Hospitals, FQHCs, Tribal health organizations, regional systems, long-term care, or community healthcare organizations

Which position or community you were viewing on RSSJobs.org

Our team personally reviews each application. When we identify an opportunity that may be a strong match, we will contact you directly to share more about the organization, community, technology or information needs, travel or housing considerations, and next steps.

Your information will be handled professionally and confidentially.

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