“This position is the Director of Standards and Interoperability within the Knowledge Based Systems Office aligned within the Clinical Informatics and Data Management Office (CIDMO) of Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Office of Health Informatics (OHI) in Brecksville, Ohio. This is a virtual position; the site will be determined upon selection.”
Responsibilities:
“This position provides politically astute executive leadership for the Health Informatics Health Information Technology (HIT) Standards program to ensure the provision of timely, high quality standards-related consultation, development and outreach to partners within VHA, VA, as well as across the government and in the national and international healthcare communities.”
“The major duties include but are not limited to:
- Leads and supervises a team of government and contract support analysts and subject matter experts that perform the activities related to the KBS Standards and Interoperability Program;
- Assigns projects, including assessing policy, program and project feasibility; determining program goals and developing implementation strategies; and promoting an organizational structure to support effective work accomplishment;
- Works to develop long range strategic and near term operational plans and objectives, and to develop, implement and monitor comprehensive program plans, budgets and schedules and works to ensure that CIDMO and OHI are effective in its approach to fulfilling the program objectives;
- Provides executive management and strategic direction for the KBS Standards and Interoperability program office working closely with the Interagency Program Office/Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (IPO/FEHRM) and other executive leads and external stakeholders, security funding for program initiatives, and selecting and assigning program staff;
- Leads interagency departmental policy and planning deliberations and is accountable for the decision-making process;
- Uses specialized knowledge and deep standards related technical expertise to represent the VA Health IT community interests and activities to internal and external organizations involved in development of community-based health information exchange;
- Develops and implements strategies that directly affect the quality and usability of health data and health information systems nationwide;
- Identifies trends in clinical practice, delivery models/environments, and their interrelation with electronic health records, health information exchange methodologies, and health information standard programs within the VA Health IT community…”
