Sr. Clinical Health Informaticist

Founded in 2003, IT Concepts’ core values – customer-centricity, teamwork, driven to deliver, innovation, and integrity – ensure we work together to be the best, realize objectives, and make a positive impact in our communities. We intentionally created and sustain our ITC culture that embraces change, experimentation, continuous learning, and improvement. We bring our design thinking problem solving approach that challenges assumptions, prioritizes curiosity, and invites complexity to deliver innovative, efficient, and effective solutions. As we continue to grow in the support of our government customers, we are looking for driven and innovative individuals to join our team.

IT Concepts is looking for an experienced Sr. Clinical Informaticist to support the Department of Veterans Affairs. As a Clinical Informaticist supporting the Clinical Process Modeling (CPM) and VistA Sustainment program within the Veterans Health Administration, you will be responsible for supporting the day-to-day execution of the CPM project, providing professional and technical Health Informatics (HI) services to support the development of enterprise CPM Blueprints and related Clinical Decision Support workflows. The Clinical Informaticist will work with clinical analysts, program analysts, health systems specialists, and information architects to provide health informatics expertise and develop CPMs for implementation in legacy VistA and Cerner environments. In addition to the CPM support, you will also be working with a team of Clinical Application Coordinators (CACs) and other Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) tasked with supporting the transition to the Cerner electronic health record (EHR) at VA Medical Centers (VAMCs). This support will include organizational change management, support of Initial Operating Capability (IOC), VistA/Computerized Patient Record System (CPRS) Health Informatics Transition Team (HITT) to support EHR modernization (EHRM) implementation, and CPM Blueprints efforts.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a cross-functional team of SMEs, CACs, and clinical professionals to assess, analyze, and design clinical workflows as related to CPRS/VistA & Cerner transition for development of CPM-related convergence priorities through EHRM
  
• Provide domain-specific expertise focused on research, data gathering, and data analysis for the development of CPM Blueprints and the formation of Integrated Program Teams (IPT)
• Collaborate with Government staff and other potential SME teams (including VA staff) to determine the clinical need for the type and complexity of Clinical Decision Support (CDS) workflow processes for a specific clinical domain(s) with the intention that the Government can then use obtained information to inform number, type, and complexity of future CPM blueprints of value to VA
• Provide inputs to documents for EHR training with appropriate terminology, abbreviations, graphics, and examples for training presentations, as well as well-written narratives
• Assist and work with the clinical analysts and terminologists to ensure that the clinical terminology to be included in future CPM Blueprints is accurate/correct
• Research and identify the content for, document the design and logic of and create and validate government-designated, standards-compliant CPM processes
• Coordinate tasks/activities within a specific clinical program office (e.g., surgical, primary care, dental, specialty care)
• Conduct publication/NCBI research – consolidate clinical and evidence-based best practices
• Work with terminologists and/or clinical informaticists on analyzing clinical concepts, data standards, and/or reference sets
• Consult the medical literature, clinical texts, guidelines, SMEs, and other authoritative sources, including VA-specific sources, in the development of CPM blueprints
• Conduct research and gather data on ancillary packages (e.g., pharmacy, radiology, lab, women’s health, surgery, etc.) in coordination with clinical analyst

Requirements

• Degree in Medicine, nursing, bioinformatics, or health science
  
• Direct experience working with Veterans Health Affairs' customers/healthcare providers
• Minimum of ten years’ experience working as a clinical informaticist on healthcare-related projects
• Knowledge of direct patient care environments and clinical topics covered by the CPM Blueprints
• Demonstrate an understanding of the clinical setting, clinical practice, clinical informatics, and prevailing standard(s) to develop solutions with appropriate SMEs
• Skilled in MS Forms, MS PowerPoint, MS Excel, SharePoint, reporting and analytics tools, and have the ability to communicate effectively with executive leadership
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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