Regional Director Laboratory Information Systems

This individual has bottom-line responsibility for RILIS, a complex, region-wide integrated wide area network, and the largest clinical laboratory system of its type in the world. The complexity of the system and the coordination of the resources necessary to support RILIS make this position essential. The position has both regional and inter-regional responsibilities.

• Creates and manages the multi-million dollar RILIS budget as well as the direction of the RILIS staff, managers and supervisors.


• Leads and directs in ways that will constantly improve service, focusing on patient satisfaction, while working on methods to reduce system expenses, focusing on overall PM/PM. Directs and works with RILIS staff and other Kaiser and non-Kaiser groups and organizations to reduce the expense of meeting regulatory compliance by creating standard processes across all of KPNCR.


• Works to create instrument, protocol, information, and standard consistency across KPNCR in order to make information more understandable, more immediate, and more standardized.


• Serves as a liaison at a regional level between RILIS and all other activities that utilize laboratory data, either directly or indirectly. Serves also as a liaison with other regions regarding laboratory information system concerns, convergence, or information sharing. Focuses on methods of securing a completely electronic record across all regions.


• Serves as the Network Manager for technical issues regarding the WAN, CIS, Systems Routing, Connectivity and Communications Protocols, Hardware upgrades and specifications, and any other technical issue involved with the management of the RILIS Clinical Information System.


• Works with the KPNCR laboratory managers and pathologists, and other laboratory advisory committees to set the agenda and direction for RILIS including enhancements to the current software and hardware platform.


• Serves these various committees as a consultant, facilitator, advisor, or delegated as required. Works with others to provide efficient models for the gathering of clinical laboratory information, at the regional and inter-regional level, making that information available within the constraints of both the legal and ethical issues involved.


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