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Plans, Formulates, and Implements National Policy and Programming: Assist with the development and sustainability of the forensic healthcare program to enhance the capacity of the Indian health system to provide high-quality multidisciplinary services and support for patients presenting for forensic healthcare and related services in collaboration with and as delegated by the Forensic Nurse Consultant. Provide recommendations to supervisors and senior leaders on forensic healthcare, projects, services, issues and trends. Serve as a coordinator for sexual assault policy implementation and monitoring.

Evaluates and Analyzes Program Effectiveness: Analyze existing or proposed systems, strategies, services, or other health related matters for forensic healthcare in conjunction with the Forensic Nurse Consultant. Research and analyze product problems caused by controversial, complex & often conflicting factors. Monitor trends and state-of-the-art clinical guidelines, strategies, research and other outcomes related to medical forensic healthcare prevention, intervention, and treatment. Review congressional and legislative action; assess and initiate impact and action on forensic healthcare accordingly.

Develops Networks and Partnerships: Provide leadership to promote and build collaboration with tribes, tribal organizations, Federal agencies and others to align resources to support DNS forensic healthcare program efforts. Represent the Agency at meetings and on national committees, task forces, and workgroups as assigned. Call and host meetings and teleconferences, arrange for guest speakers, foster leadership by others, and take appropriate actions to enable the establishment and growth of effective networks and partnerships.

**This position is being announced concurrently under Excepted Service Examining Plan/Merit Promotion Plan (ESEP/MPP) procedures. Please review vacancy announcement number IHS-25-PX-12599857-ESEP/MP; for eligibility requirements. NOTE: Applicants must apply separately for each announcement in order to be considered.**

• Primary duties are providing oversight and subject matter expertise for healthcare information systems, which can include consultation with facilities throughout the area on supported systems. The oversight includes implementation, maintenance, training and technical support of supported healthcare information systems used in the hospital, ambulatory care and public health settings.
• Support functions and coordinate activities to support other supported systems that integrate with the electronic medical record system to include the master patient index, health information exchange, and personal health record.
• Manages the customization of the site parameters and addresses integration issues with other software packages.
• Provides training to end-users on current software applications as needed.
• Evaluates and makes recommendation concerning overall plans and proposals regarding this programs that impacts all area wide services units.

**This position is being announced concurrently under Delegated Examining Plan (DE) procedures. Please review vacancy announcement number IHS-25-PX-12599858-DE; for eligibility requirements. NOTE: Applicants must apply separately for each announcement in order to be considered.**

• Primary duties are providing oversight and subject matter expertise for healthcare information systems, which can include consultation with facilities throughout the area on supported systems. The oversight includes implementation, maintenance, training and technical support of supported healthcare information systems used in the hospital, ambulatory care and public health settings.
• Support functions and coordinate activities to support other supported systems that integrate with the electronic medical record system to include the master patient index, health information exchange, and personal health record.
• Manages the customization of the site parameters and addresses integration issues with other software packages.
• Provides training to end-users on current software applications as needed.
• Evaluates and makes recommendation concerning overall plans and proposals regarding this programs that impacts all area wide services units.

• Performs routine budget analysis functions in assigned areas.
• Compiles factual information and quantitative data to prepare regular and ad hoc reports that present information such as the status of funds, expenditures, and obligations.
• Contributes to the preparation of budget estimates and justifications by extracting and presenting current and historical data.
• Monitors, reviews, and reconciles commitments, obligations and expenditures.
• Assures that obligations incurred and resulting expenditures of funds are in accordance with pertinent laws and regulations.

Project Analysis, Assessment, and Planning

• Conducts evaluations, surveys, and studies regarding Health Information Technology policy, and applicable software change requests to be delivered to agency governance bodies for consideration and determination of agency-wide technology implementation.
• Gathers and analyzes information, develops solutions and recommendations with actionable steps to improve organizational processes and optimize change resulting in continuous technology improvements.
• Analyzes and develops key performance indicators to gauge the success of the organization in reaching specific goals and objectives.
• Analyzes new or proposed legislation or regulations to determine the impact on program operations and management.
• Analyzes, develops, and maintains program evaluations, plans, and procedures.
• Elicits and analyzes stakeholder needs to develop requirements and requirements of management plans and defines guidelines and procedures to meet stakeholder and program needs.
• Identifies IT program governance issues and problem areas, conducts preliminary analyses to determine the nature of issues, and proposes improvement efforts and courses of action to improve HIT program services.
• Collaborates and plans with Partners, Project Managers, and Governing boards to support all stages of the enterprise project lifecycle.
• Identifies resource requirements, estimates timelines, recommends task assignments to team members and reports progress.

• Develops, reviews, evaluates, and provides statements (scope) of work for proposed procurements.
• Defines Technical and managerial requirements and approaches, acceptance plans, and criteria with detailed descriptions of deliverables, schedules, and prices.
• Evaluates overall plans and proposals for major IT projects and equipment.
• Assists in preparing and approving solicitation documents for distributed information technology, and the technical evaluation of information technology and services offered by the general information technology community.
• Establishes quality assurance standards and delivery requirements, ensures compliance with all contract clauses, and administers technical aspects of the contract.
• Develops acquisition program requirements, ensures competitive sources are solicited, evaluated, and selected, and the price the government pays is reasonable.

• Develops and conducts presentations and technical briefings for Stakeholders, Program Management, and OIT leadership.
• Presents project status briefings and recommendations concerning long-range information resources management plans to top-level management.

Leadership in Medical Imaging and Archiving Informatics:

• Serve as a recognized informatics expert in the areas of medical imaging and PACS.
• Convene and lead groups of subject matter experts (SME) in radiology and related healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as a liaison between the Office of Information Technology and select Indian Health Service Headquarters offices and divisions.
• Responsible for programmatic guidance of imaging related disciplines to ensure that the data needs of these programs are considered in health information technology system selection and configuration.
• Perform in a professional manner when conducting duties between Indian Health Service, Tribal, Urban (I/T/U) users, state, local healthcare organizations, external and internal stakeholders and software development staff.
• Represent the Office of Information Technology on specific professional specialty groups (PSG) or technical advisory groups (TAG) as assigned.
• Prepare briefing papers, presentations, or other documents concerning activities, progress, goals, accomplishments, or risks in areas of responsibility that may be used to inform senior staff, Indian Health Service area leadership, Tribes and Urban Indian organizations or other agencies.

• Conduct market research, independently and in collaboration with appropriate Office of Information Technology and program colleagues on medical imaging and or archiving products and systems that may be useful in improving care and outcomes for Indian Health Service facilities and patients.
• Document findings and recommendations in formats accessible to business sponsors and leaders who do not have deep technical knowledge.
• Conduct fact-finding and systems analysis relative to the implementation of medical imaging and archiving applications.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to support implementation and modification of planned or proposed software changes or administrative policies for clinical software.
• Use expert independent judgement to select and develop methods to meet long-term objectives for new healthcare software applications.
• Evaluate, interpret, and implement regulations, mandates, and industry standards for health information technology system functionality, performance, interoperability, security, and usability.
• Interface with health information technology product vendors and or support contractors regarding Indian Health Service system configuration requirements or product enhancement requests.

Project Analysis, Assessment, and Planning

• Conducts evaluations, surveys, and studies regarding Health Information Technology policy, and applicable software change requests to be delivered to agency governance bodies for consideration and determination of agency-wide technology implementation.
• Gathers and analyzes information, develops solutions and recommendations with actionable steps to improve organizational processes and optimize change resulting in continuous technology improvements.
• Analyzes and develops key performance indicators to gauge the success of the organization in reaching specific goals and objectives.
• Analyzes new or proposed legislation or regulations to determine the impact on program operations and management.
• Analyzes, develops, and maintains program evaluations, plans, and procedures.
• Elicits and analyzes stakeholder needs to develop requirements and requirements of management plans and defines guidelines and procedures to meet stakeholder and program needs.
• Identifies IT program governance issues and problem areas, conducts preliminary analyses to determine the nature of issues, and proposes improvement efforts and courses of action to improve HIT program services.
• Collaborates and plans with Partners, Project Managers, and Governing boards to support all stages of the enterprise project lifecycle.
• Identifies resource requirements, estimates timelines, recommends task assignments to team members and reports progress.

• Develops, reviews, evaluates, and provides statements (scope) of work for proposed procurements.
• Defines Technical and managerial requirements and approaches, acceptance plans, and criteria with detailed descriptions of deliverables, schedules, and prices.
• Evaluates overall plans and proposals for major IT projects and equipment.
• Assists in preparing and approving solicitation documents for distributed information technology, and the technical evaluation of information technology and services offered by the general information technology community.
• Establishes quality assurance standards and delivery requirements, ensures compliance with all contract clauses, and administers technical aspects of the contract.
• Develops acquisition program requirements, ensures competitive sources are solicited, evaluated, and selected, and the price the government pays is reasonable.

• Develops and conducts presentations and technical briefings for Stakeholders, Program Management, and OIT leadership.
• Presents project status briefings and recommendations concerning long-range information resources management plans to top-level management.

Leadership in Medical Imaging and Archiving Informatics:

• Serve as a recognized informatics expert in the areas of medical imaging and PACS.
• Convene and lead groups of subject matter experts (SME) in radiology and related healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as a liaison between the Office of Information Technology and select Indian Health Service Headquarters offices and divisions.
• Responsible for programmatic guidance of imaging related disciplines to ensure that the data needs of these programs are considered in health information technology system selection and configuration.
• Perform in a professional manner when conducting duties between Indian Health Service, Tribal, Urban (I/T/U) users, state, local healthcare organizations, external and internal stakeholders and software development staff.
• Represent the Office of Information Technology on specific professional specialty groups (PSG) or technical advisory groups (TAG) as assigned.
• Prepare briefing papers, presentations, or other documents concerning activities, progress, goals, accomplishments, or risks in areas of responsibility that may be used to inform senior staff, Indian Health Service area leadership, Tribes and Urban Indian organizations or other agencies.

Leadership in Pharmacy and General Clinical Informatics:

• Convene and lead groups of Subject Matter Experts (SME) in pharmacy and other healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as liaison between the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Agency Offices, Divisions and Stakeholders on programmatic guidance of various disciplines including pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology/imaging to ensure data and informatics programs are considered in health information technology system programming, selection and configuration.
• Coordinate clinical informatics collaboration with performance standards with Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban entities on data standard developments and provide oversight of advisory groups and health information technology software and application programming and development for interface and integration between clinical practice and information systems.

• Conduct market research independently and in collaboration with appropriate O.I.T and program colleagues on products and systems that may be useful in improving health care delivery initiatives for Indian Health Service facilities.
• Document health information technology findings and recommendations in accessible formats to business sponsors and leaders.
• Assist with technical informatics business mechanisms.
• Facilitate fact-finding and systems analysis relative to the implementation of health information technology clinical software applications.
• Evaluate and make recommendations to support implementation and modification of planned or proposed software changes or administrative policies for clinical software.
• Evaluate, interpret, and implement regulations, mandates, and industry standards for health information technology system functionality, performance, interoperability, security, and usability.
• Interface with health information technology product vendors and/or support contractors regarding Indian Health Service system configuration requirements or product enhancement requests.

Leadership in Pharmacy and General Clinical Informatics:

• Convene and lead groups of Subject Matter Experts (SME) in pharmacy and other healthcare disciplines to identify best practices and achieve consensus for standardization of workflow design and configuration in existing and new health information systems.
• Serve as liaison between the Office of Information Technology (OIT), Agency Offices, Divisions and Stakeholders on programmatic guidance of various disciplines including pharmacy, laboratory, and radiology/imaging to ensure data and informatics programs are considered in health information technology system programming, selection and configuration.
• Coordinate clinical informatics collaboration with performance standards with Indian Health Service, Tribal and Urban entities on data standard developments and provide oversight of advisory groups and health information technology software and application programming and development for interface and integration between clinical practice and information systems.

• Works closely with the Contracting Officer (Procurement Office) throughout the solicitation process; develop and monitor timelines/milestones, lead or participate on contract technical proposal evaluation panels, tracks the delegation, and service contract funding prepare supporting documentation for decisions reached; and coordinate the phase in and closeout of contracts.
• Serve as liaison between contractors and the government Contracting Officer to identify and resolve issues.
• Provide timely, consistent and comprehensive oversight of assigned contracts, delivery orders and task orders.
• Prepare complex action plans and schedules to support project accomplishment. Ensures that plans are consistent with service goals, schedules, and policies.

• Works closely with the Contracting Officer (Procurement Office) throughout the solicitation process; develop and monitor timelines/milestones, lead or participate on contract technical proposal evaluation panels, tracks the delegation, and service contract funding prepare supporting documentation for decisions reached; and coordinate the phase in and closeout of contracts.
• Serve as liaison between contractors and the government Contracting Officer to identify and resolve issues.
• Provide timely, consistent and comprehensive oversight of assigned contracts, delivery orders and task orders.
• Prepare complex action plans and schedules to support project accomplishment. Ensures that plans are consistent with service goals, schedules, and policies.

• Performs administrative services in the following areas: security and pre-employment suitability, Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) requirements, and Personal Identity Verification (PIV) card access controls.
• Makes preliminary pre-employment or eligibility determinations on applicants for positions for which applying. Reviews arrest reports and disposition of cases.
• Performs such tasks as evaluating the sensitivity determination for each position, as described by management based on need-to-know principles.
• Maintains a data base that accurately reflects timely submission of forms, to include fingerprints, reports, and satisfactory Electronic Questionnaire for Investigations Processing (e-QIP) submission.

• Analyzes and evaluates the management practices and methods, and administrative operations of substantive organizations and complex functions.
• Ensures coaching on aspects of health care quality improvement to teams is provided on an ongoing basis. Targeted interactions occur as needed with individuals as well as with teams. Coordinates virtual educational training sessions related to innovation and improvement process.
• Works with stakeholders across organizations, functions and levels to build customer understanding and solve challenging problems, empower teams to move forward by developing metrics, measuring results, and integrating new methodologies into existing systems.
• Serves as a contracting officer's technical representative on contracts of an administrative nature and/or contractor support for the conduct of large studies.
• Compiles data and prepares complex administrative and management reports that emanate from the Department or high echelons in the organization. Reports encompass workforce and organizational issues and proposed plans and proposals for implementing Executive Orders, new legislation.

• Maintains accounts by reviewing documents to verify accounting data as necessary, entering data into the system.
• Prepare reports reflecting the examinations made, discrepancies noted, and the corrective entries required to adjust accounts.
• Reviews and reconciles all third-party payer documents for correct data, on all third-party vouchers for accurate claims number.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual reconciliation and recapitulation of third-party billing to assure that collection, billed data, and the computerized and manual reports are in balance.
• Maintains current documentation and guidelines pertaining to reimbursement activities inappropriate files, binders, etc., and ensures preparation and distribution of copies to all appropriate disciplines.