Summary
This position provides leadership in designated projects and cross-coverage with other informaticists in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The volume and complexity of responsibilities are significant and constantly evolving. The incumbent will foster leadership and professionalism by building, supporting, and creating alignments for informatics best practices, and lead health informatics initiatives and innovation through collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
Duties
The Incumbent achieves leadership that is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for an integrated program that crosses services and/or discipline lines and influences the organizational mission. This informatics leader is responsible for providing organizational level leadership in the development and use of informatics solutions and technology to support all clinical domains. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the oversight of informatics practice, establishing effective clinical and administrative systems, designing useful decision support systems, managing, and delivering educational experiences, enhancing lifelong learning, and supporting healthcare research.
Program responsibilities include program development, project implementation, budget, logistics, ongoing monitoring and analytics, communication, collaboration, and education. This position is located at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA), VISN 4, James E. Van Zandt VA Medical Center (VAMC) in Altoona, Pennsylvania in the Health Informatics Service. The incumbent of this position reports to the Associate Director for Patient Care Services and independently carries out assigned duties.
