Sr. Clinical Health Informaticist

Overview

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Kentro is hiring 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.

Location: This position can be performed remotely within the United States and will support Eastern Time working hours.

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $150,000 - $160,000 annually. Factors affecting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

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

Qualifications

• 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

Preferred Qualifications:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience supporting health IT-related projects
• Experience leading a variety of clinical informatics research, data gathering, and analysis tasks
• Experience validating, interpreting, and analyzing clinical concepts, data, and trends using standard practices and techniques in the field(s) of specialization
• Experience interfacing directly with clients
• You value teamwork, demonstrate integrity and honesty, are passionate, innovative and strive for excellence
• Direct experience with electronic health record technologies and implementations (specifically Cerner)
• Direct experience with clinical process modeling

Clearance Requirement:

• US Citizen or Green card holder
• Willing and able to obtain and maintain Public Trust Clearance
• Must meet updated ID requirements: https://www.gsa.gov/technology/it-contract-vehicles-and-purchasing-programs/federal-credentialing-services/get-appointment-help/bring-required-documents
• If you do not currently meet the ID requirements outlined, you must be willing and able to update your current forms of ID in a timely manner to complete the suitability process successfully.