Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer Opportunity in Fredericksburg, VA!

The Fredericksburg HCC (FxHCC), opening in March 2025, is seeking an Associate Chief Health Informatics Officer (ACHIO). Part of the Central Virginia VA Health Care System (CVHCS), FxHCC will expand services in a growing veteran region. Reporting to the Director of Clinical Services at FxHCC, with dotted line to the CVHCS CHIO, the ACHIO will bridge informatics efforts between the new facility and the Richmond-based informatics team, which will continue to provide primary support.

This new 470,000+ sq. ft. health care center will replace the existing three smaller Fredericksburg area clinics and provide Veterans of the Fredericksburg and northern Virginia area with high-quality health care services. While this is not a hospital by definition (no inpatient services or emergency room), it will house many of the same great outpatient services offered at the main hospital in Richmond, Virginia. 

Functions:

• This role combines clinical, administrative, and technical knowledge that involve multiple specialized areas of a complex nature to develop, manage, maintain, and lead major clinical informatics initiatives and projects of a broad scope.
• The incumbent will use knowledge of patient care combined with the understanding of informatics concepts to achieve the following: assess information and knowledge needs of the health care professionals and patients; characterize, evaluate, and refine clinical processes; develop, implement, and refine clinical decision support systems; and participate in the procurement, customization, implementation, management, evaluation and continuous improvement of clinical information systems.
• As a minimum expectation, informatics personnel should demonstrate the following eight core informatics functions at the baseline proficiency level: application support, business architecture management, enterprise data management, content management, system optimization, change management, requirements management, and partnership management. The ideal candidate would be board eligible or board certified in clinical informatic and be open to practicing clinically in an outpatient setting at least 25% of the time in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Must demonstrate a mastery of:

1. Medical knowledge by being a current board-certified clinician independently licensed in a State, Territory, or the District of Columbia.
2. The health care environment, including how business processes influence health care delivery and the flow of data among the major domains of the health care system.
3. How information systems and processes enhance or compromise the decision making and actions of health care team members.
4. Re-engineering health care processes.
5. Fundamental information system concepts, including the life cycle of information systems, the constantly evolving capabilities of information technology and health care, and the technical and non-technical issues surrounding system implementation.
6. How clinical information systems impact users and patients, how to support users and how to promote clinical adoption of systems.
7. Leading organizational change, fostering collaboration, communicating effectively, and managing large scale projects related to clinical information systems.

Patient Care Responsibilities:

• The applicant will practice their clinical specialty at FxHCC in a part-time capacity of no less than 25% of their full-time equivalent.
• The incumbent will play key role in demonstrating the capability of the VA clinical information systems and will assist fellow practitioners in doing the right things for the right patients at the right time.
• The incumbent ensures adequate support to measurably improve the quality of data and the transfer of clinical information between providers.
• The incumbent will ensure valid information is available to the patients and to their health care practitioner.
• The incumbent coordinates the use of electronic health record software packages for the provision of quality clinical care as well as the use of clinical decision support tools to streamline the process of patient care and provide accurate date in a timely manner.
• The incumbent will help ensure the VHA's Electronic Health Record (EHR) system 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.

Salary: $200-320K

Work Schedule: 8:00am to 4:30pm. Monday - Friday

Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is America’s largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 medical centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics), serving 9 million enrolled Veterans each year.

In addition to the honor of serving America’s Heroes, a career at VHA provides a robust total reward$ package (see full brochure here) and offers many benefits including: 

• Flexible work schedules and shifts
• Low patient-provider ratios
• Robust insurance coverage
• The ability to work anywhere in the country with one active license
• Stable employment with competitive salary and regular pay increases
• 50 days annual paid time off (26 days paid annual leave, 13 days paid annual sick leave, 11 paid federal holidays) in addition to other leave options including paid parental leave
• Generous education support programs, including loan repayment and reimbursement 
• Unprecedented federal retirement benefits including a traditional pension (5 years’ vesting) and a federal 401K (TSP) with up to 5% in employer contributions
• VA’s Diversity, People & Culture

About Department of Veterans Affairs - Fredericksburg VA Health Care Center

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is the largest integrated health care system in the United States, providing care at 1,321 health care facilities, including 172 VA Medical Centers and 1,138 outpatient sites of care of varying complexity (VHA outpatient clinics) to over 9 million Veterans enrolled in the VA health care program. VHA Medical Centers provide a wide range of services including traditional hospital-based services such as surgery, critical care, mental health, orthopedics, pharmacy, radiology and physical therapy. In addition, most of our medical centers offer additional medical and surgical specialty services including audiology & speech pathology, dermatology, dental, geriatrics, neurology, oncology, podiatry, prosthetics, urology, and vision care. Some medical centers also offer advanced services such as organ transplants and plastic surgery.

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