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SalaryNCQA is hiring for an Assistant Vice President of Quality Informatics. Amid health care’s digital transition NCQA is actively seeking to improve quality measurement by leveraging health data standards and exchange policies advanced by federal agencies in collaboration with industry. NCQA is seeking an AVP Health Care Quality Informatics to advance NCQA’s innovative work in digital quality measurement and standards. The AVP will report to the VP of Quality Implementation in NCQA’s Quality Measurement and Research Group (QMRG), leading development and curation of NCQA’s FHIR Implementation Guides and ensuring that they faithfully represent the clinical intent of NCQA’s HEDIS measures and related NCQA standards and products.
The AVP will collaborate with staff across departments including QMRG, Information Technology, Product, and Operations contributing clinical informatics knowledge, experience, and skills to assist teams develop digital quality measure specifications, designing data integrity tools, and building configurable software products that support quality improvement and value-based contracting activities of health plans and care delivery organizations. The AVP will collaborate with other leaders to advance NCQA’s health data standards agenda with relevant standards organizations and communities including HL-7, ONC, CMS, and with relevant projects developing digital health data standards.
The successful candidate has training in clinical medicine and experience in care delivery settings in addition to training and expertise in clinical informatics. Knowledge of and experience in health care quality measurement and improvement are strongly preferred. The successful candidate will represent NCQA in the health informatics community so strong leadership and communication skills as reflected by presentations and publications and service on expert advisory panels.
Responsibilities:
Oversee the development and curation of FHIR Implementation Guides and other health data standards to be used by teams developing digital quality measures and related content. Develop a health Quality Informatics research standards agenda through formal partnerships and projects with relevant organizations and agencies. Seek funding to support a clinical Quality Informatics research agenda.
Support NCQA’s quality knowledge and content development teams by identifying emerging health data standards. Collaborate closely with quality content developers, knowledge architects, and content engineers to ensure that NCQA products and programs are applying the best, most relevant, and most current health data standards. Lead and manage the work of the clinical informatics team.
- Provide guidance to analysts and data scientists evaluating the use of health data standards, data quality, and performance based on NCQA programs and products.
- Represent NCQA to scientific and stakeholder audiences. Enhance NCQA’s reputation for leadership in health data standards and clinical informatics through public speaking, publications, expert panel participation, and standards workgroup leadership and participation.
Requirements:
Clinical degree in Medicine or Nursing, or Masters degree in public health, clinical informatics, or equivalent disciplines.
- 10+ years of experience in health care delivery settings, quality measure development or health data standards development.
- Knowledge of clinical operations, grant preparation and health care management.
Ability to multitask, work efficiently, supervise, and prioritize, make decisions and function with modest supervision.
Working knowledge of statistical packages and Microsoft Office Suite.
Able to work as a team player.
- Excellent public speaking skills and ability to represent NCQA at expert panels and convenings.
NCQA is committed to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
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