Director of Healthcare IT & Government Affairs

For more than 20 years, PointClickCare has been the backbone of senior care. We’ve amassed the richest senior care dataset making our market density untouchable and our connections to the healthcare ecosystem exponentially more powerful than those of any other platform. 
With Collective Medical & Audacious Inquiry, we’ve become the most expansive, full-continuum care collaboration network, offering care teams immediate, point-of-care access to deep, real-time insights at every stage of a patient’s journey.
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Position Summary:The Director of Healthcare IT and Government Affairs will have a track record of relationship building, with states and local governments for healthcare technology business. You will have an understanding of customer requirements, government and have a deep industry network. You will be able to think strategically and critically, build strong relationships of trust, and fully and properly represent PointClickCare in very senior external interactions. As a Director serving within PointClickCare’s government affairs team, you will be a critical part of a fast-growing business segment and deeply entrenched across multiple teams, including product, sales, marketing, engineering, success and clinical solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor and track regulatory changes in Health IT that would have an impact to PointClickCare business lines (examples TEFCA, ONC, CURES Act, CMS)
• Monitor and/or participate in industry workgroups and committees that help shape policy for Health IT (Gravity, PACIO, HITAC, the Sequoia project)
• Meet with governing bodies, such as ONC and CMS, to educate on LTPAC space and Health IT needs, clarify regulations related to HIT, advocate for LTPAC HIT needs
• Interpret Health IT regulations and industry trends into business insights for PointClickCare business lines and help shape the company’s strategy on Health IT initiatives while maintaining:
•        Commercial pragmatism
•        A focus on the larger (long-term) PointClickCare strategy
•        An understanding of the “intent” of the regulations
•        Have a technical understanding of interoperability, data standards, and FHIR and can work with the PEO to ensure:
•        Our products meet Health IT Compliance Standards
•        We are future-proofing our interoperability infrastructure (technical and regulatory)
•        We have a seat at the table that defines the future with active voting participation in HL7 or EQ.
• Work with cross functional teams to design, develop and assess ways to collect, share, standardize and integrate health data and the information systems used to manage it
• ONC compliance oversight, working with Product team to ensure application remains ONC compliant, including:
•         Managing Conditions of Maintenance & Certification with ONC
•         Managing Real World Testing Plans and delivery of results
•         Managing Drummond quarterly attestations
•         Maintaining CHPL listing as ONC key contact
• Educate don’t dictate, our people have 95% of the answers to the questions they ask
• Support the building of a regulated culture without building new hurdles
• Don’t accept no or we can’t do that as an answer (technically or commercially)
• Don’t allow problems to be raised without a future mindset towards solutions

Required Skills & Experience:

• You will have deep experience in Healthcare and Healthcare IT.  Experience with CMS/ONC is preferred but not required
• 5+ years of Healthcare Data experience
• Subject matter expertise relevant to public health, medicaid and other state healthcare interests.
• Demonstrated understanding of federal and state government contract vehicles and other related Government contracting requirements.
• Senior level experience working with customer organizations; a combination of government experience and commercial business development experience is preferred.
• Experience developing opportunities from early concept / trend identification through qualification.  
• Ability to engage, motivate and collaborate within a matrixed, multi-disciplinary environment.
• Experience leading a high performing team
• Team-building and influencing outcomes by the ability to motivate performance and establish coalitions across a matrixed organized.
• A demonstration of progressive expansion of responsibilities for respective markets and/or budgets.
• Credibility with external constituents, specifi