Summary

The VA Central Iowa Health Care System is recruiting for 1 full-time Program Analyst (Informatics) for the Health Administration Service Line.

Duties

The VA Midwest Health Care Network advocates for a Whole Health System of care in each of the Medical Centers. This is an approach to healthcare that empowers and equips people to take charge of their health and well-being and live their lives to the fullest. As an employee operating in a Whole Health System of care, you will operate in a model with three core elements, seeking to create a personalized health plan for each Veteran. This is done in the context of healing relationships and healing environments and a connection back to the Veteran's community. This aligns with the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Mission Statement to Honor America's Veterans by providing exceptional health care that improves their health and well-being.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Program Management: Provides communication channels to clinical and business teams to support deployment, sustainment, and optimization efforts; includes communication among all stakeholders through each level of the organization, to facilitate and support change.
• Partnership Management: Cultivates a healthy working relationship between the Offices of Information & Technology (OIT) and Health Informatics, allowing for routine dialog to enable the sustainment and optimization of our health information technology (IT) solutions and workflows, for the benefit of all staff and Veterans.
• Data and Content Management: Evaluates content quality and assures access to knowledge resources, eliminating redundancy in duplicate data sources, and improving information interoperability across the organization.
• Application Support: Enables healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology adjoined to the electronic health record (EHR) to deliver quality care in the development, implementation, maintenance, and monitor by developing, implementing, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing informatics tools and access to them.
• Business Architecture Management: Supports the analysis of a workflow to consider opportunities for the potential improvement or optimization of the behavior of people, systems, information, and tools.
• Health Information Technology (HIT) System Optimization: Ensures the VHA EHR operates in a way that improves patient care, ensures patient safety, and meets the needs of providers through continuous evaluation, testing, and improvement of the system.
• Requirements Management: Documents, prioritizes, and recognizes requirements for the improvement of the EHR and other systems in collaboration with the end-user.
• Education and Change Management: Performs support work in activities that support the management and delivery of educational experiences using information solutions and technology in all areas of healthcare.

Work Schedule

7:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m.

Telework

Not available

Virtual

This is not a virtual position.

Requirements Conditions of employment

You must be a U.S. Citizen to apply for this job. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must be proficient in written and spoken English. Subject to background/security investigation.