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Department Summary:

CGEM employees are expected to work on multiple projects, cross-pollinate good ideas across the government, and continuously learn. We are truly an interdisciplinary department that thrives on having adaptable and diverse skillsets to support comprehensive analysis and to drive analytical, evidence-based decision making with our sponsors. We value people who can bring unique perspectives, experiences, and who are driven to learning novel technologies. Our department works to solve problems in the public interest, and in partnership with the government. We also actively conduct independent research in areas of interest to our government partners.

Roles and Responsibilities:

As a Clinical Informatics Advisor for MITRE’s Center for Government Effectiveness and Modernization (CGEM) P851 Veterans Affairs Health Systems and Strategy Department, you will provide strategic and operational support, analysis and subject matter expertise in the areas of utilizing clinical data to make a myriad of positive changes: improved overall health care quality, enhanced workflows, increased productivity, reduced/prevented clinical errors, lowered costs, increased efficiencies, improved communication between the care team, improved patient outcomes and more. Ultimately with the goal to enhance individual and population health outcomes and improve patient care using an information-based approach for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). This position benefits from the knowledge of clinical operations and methods; health informatics principles and methods; electronic health records (EHR); revenue cycle applications; health data repositories; health data standards and interoperability; natural language processing; and analysis, interpretation, and optimization of health care data.

The ideal candidate will lead multi-disciplinary teams with a variety of health and non-health related backgrounds to develop solutions that serve the federal governments’ efforts to provide the best healthcare to Veterans and modernize their data and technology infrastructure. Successful candidates will ensure that these multi-disciplinary teams consider the unique aspects of clinical informatics in their problem-solving activities.

• Support multi-site, multi-agency, and multi-stakeholder initiatives to help advance key national health objectives.
• Evaluate, troubleshoot, and make recommendations to improve various clinical workflows and processes surrounding the use of technology.
• Develop reports and presentations for both lay and clinical audiences that effectively communicate findings and promote recommendations to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Apply wide range of experience and professional knowledge of health and clinical informatics, clinical systems lifecycle, and healthcare operations, change management principles, and industry standards at the point of care to inform decision making for VA/VHA.
• Manage small efforts such as routine projects and deliverables.
• Advise VA/VHA leadership and stakeholders as they seek to modernize their clinical and health data and technology infrastructure, to improve timeliness, and quality of health care services provided to Veterans.
• Draft, review, and/or manage the development of technical products, such as research papers, briefing papers/reports, environmental scans, and recommendations for that will provide value and address our government sponsor’s knowledge gaps and challenges.
• Use project management and business principles to support and/or lead multi-disciplinary teams with a variety of health and non-health related backgrounds, develop solutions that serve VA/VHA’s efforts to modernize their healthcare operations and technology infrastructure.
• Interact with senior leaders of federal healthcare agencies, think creatively, and guide approaches to solutions based on a clinical understanding of challenges the government faces.
• Work with VA and Veterans Health Administration (VHA) staff to provide strategic and operational support and subject matter expertise based on an understanding of government challenges and priorities, clinical care, healthcare administration, and electronic health record systems that support these functions.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be a US citizen and capable of obtaining and maintaining VA Suitability.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a clinical discipline (e.g., nursing, respiratory therapy, social work, etc.) or healthcare informatics, with at least eight years of relevant experience in clinical and applied informatics.
• Knowledge of contemporary hospital/clinical practices and healthcare operations.

• Excellent organizational skills and ability to work independently.
• Proficiency in data visualizations.
• Knowledge of clinical quality measures and clinical decision support systems.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Clinical, quality, process improvement, project management, public health or clinical informatics credentials strongly preferred.
• Experience working in the healthcare industry, and direct knowledge of terminology, clinical roles, administrative roles, and national healthcare organizations.
• Experience working with Oracle Cerner EHR.
• Understanding of a Veteran’s healthcare journey and associated challenges.
• Experience applying business, project management, consulting tools and principles; advisory or consulting experience strongly preferred.
• Familiarity with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and privacy policies that must be addressed when handling Protected Health Information (PHI) or Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
• Experience providing translation between information technology experts and clinical experts.
• Experience leading projects, groups, and teams.
• Knowledge of and experience with natural language processing.
• Clinical experience as a nurse, nurse practitioner, physician’s assistant, physician, pharmacist, etc.
• Experience leading the development of a technical deliverables, report, white paper, etc.; providing documentation of analyses, information preparation, project management support, deliverable preparation (reports, presentations).
• Experience managing people in diverse teams.
• Experience working with healthcare technology systems such as EHRs, Health Information Exchanges (HIEs), interface engines, use of cloud storage, interoperability, or other clinical systems including LIS, CDS, RIS, PACS or ADT.
• Knowledge of cyber and information technology security.
• MD or PhD in nursing practice or other clinical discipline (e.g., respiratory therapy, social work, etc.) or healthcare informatics, with at least eight years of relevant experience in clinical and applied informatics.
• Experience working with VA or VHA.
• Experience interpreting clinical (or health-related) data sets and applying findings to influence decision making.
• Understanding of training program structures designed to teach clinicians how to use new technology or updates to existing technology, in addition to building an informatics team to support ongoing sustainment and system maintenance.
• Understanding and application of change management, organizational design, and user centered design principles, preferably applied to EHR implementations.
• Ability to interpret data analysis into clinically relevant information, knowledge, and wisdom to inform decision making and recommendations.
• Applied expertise working with clinical and health information systems, and/or EHR standards.

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

None

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Suitability - VA

Work Location Type:

Hybrid

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