“The Director, Informatics Patient Safety (IPS) is the most senior leader responsible for promoting safe use and safe operation of health IT in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). The Director also leads collaboration with other government agencies and industry associations for the same. IPS is located within the Clinical Informatics and Data Management Office (CIDMO) in the Office of Health Informatics in VHA.”
Responsibilities:
- Oversees the VHA work of the IPS office and assigned programs, including assessing policy, program and project feasibility.
- Determines program goals and developing implementation strategies; and promoting an organizational structure to support effective work accomplishment…
Executive Program Planning, Management:
- Develops comprehensive Informatics and patient safety programs which have a substantial impact on VHA’s provision of healthcare to our patients through the assessment of healthcare work processes and socio-technical models to proactively identify risks to prevent harm with the use of information systems used by all clinicians, veterans and caregivers throughout the VA.
- Directs teams that use a variety of hazard surveillance methods and tools to predict risks of patient harm data and design information flows, workflows and system interfaces and assess the safest possible use of applications, systems, and devices targeted for such for variety of end users, to include clinical, administrative and Veterans…
Technical and Authoritative Subject Matter – Expert Informatics and Patient Safety:
- Oversees and manages contracts, Interpersonal agreements, and research agreements for strategies and processes to proactively assess and improve VHA’s patient safety efforts in the full lifecycle of complex health information systems.
- Serves as the leader and responsible manager for overseeing all VHA Health IT Patient Safety activities including evaluating surveillance methods and implementation practices, conducting retrospective and proactive risk assessments, professional workforce inn development, and innovative method development…
Program Administration and Operations Management:
- Ensures the on-time preparation and submission of defensible multi-million-dollar budget requests.
- Applies fiscal knowledge and skills to actively manage budget allocation against prepared spend plan.
- Serves as senior government program manager on national contracts managed within the IPS program.
- Demonstrates and applies relevant knowledge and skills required to work with acquisition centers to manage large solicitations in support of multiple concurrent multimillion-dollar projects…
