Duties will include but are not limited to:
- Patient Care: Uses the capability of the VA clinical information systems to assist practitioners in doing the right things for the right patients at the right time and ensuring valid information is available to the patients and to their health care practitioner. Ensures the Electronic Health Records 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.
- Technology and Informatics: Enables healthcare capabilities and the evolution of technology to deliver quality care by developing, implementing, monitoring, maintaining, and optimizing informatics tools and access to them. Contributes to the planning and execution of computer hardware/software development to meet patient care needs and ensure optimal computer use. Expands and enhances patient access to patient information through the various initiatives, and further the effective and efficient use of medical information systems for patients.
- Data Management: Effectively creates, integrates, disseminates, and manages data for enterprise applications, processes and entities requiring timely and accurate data delivery.
- Collaboration: Communicates orally and in writing with a wide variety of individuals serving as a consultant at the local, regional, and national level on clinical information systems. Work collaboratively with appropriate leadership to identify strategic opportunities and initiatives that will enhance organizational improvement efforts through the systematic application of informatics principles and tools. Participate on Informatics and analytics councils.
- Policy Development and Implementation: Ensure that all local, VISN and national informatics policies are implemented properly and in a timely manner.
