Health Analyst in Reston, VA

Job Outline

This position is to analyze current health-related business processes, the automated systems that support them to identify opportunities for improvement; provide technical, business, management expertise, and support the Department of Health and Human Services and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in building and maintaining a comprehensive enterprise architecture program.

Task/Functional Responsibilities

• Develop work plans to reach the target goals
• Identify impacts and/or dependencies across the current/future environments
• Use facilitation and modeling techniques to document the current environment in terms of business processes, data, systems, services, technology infrastructure, etc.
• Analyze business processes to help understand and manage the current environment, identify gaps, duplications, and redundancies and identify opportunities for improvement
• Work with business managers to define their target goals and propose alternative business solutions

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements

• Health Care: Knowledge and understanding of health-related areas such as Medicare and Medicaid
• Analysis: Ability to collect information and study it to identify gaps, need for improvement, inconsistencies, etc.
• Research: Experience in searching the internet & other sources for reliable technical info on various subjects
• Interpersonal: Ability to work well with mid-level or senior managers to understand their needs and work with IT personnel to translate the business needs into technical solutions
• Team: Experience working on teams in lead position and/or as a team member
• Written Communications: Experience writing technical documentation, creating graphics, editing documents and ensuring documentation quality and consistency
• Oral Communications: Experience in speaking to small to medium size audiences, developing presentations, collecting information via interviews
• Tools: Experience using & ability to quickly learn automated & new tools (ex. business process modeling tools)

Key Requirement

• Master's Degree in Health Care Administration or health-related field or in Health Information Technology from an accredited university or college.
• Willing to travel to Baltimore, MD 2-3 times a week to work on client site (Will get expense report for cost of traveling and time)

Special Clearance Requirements

• Must be U.S. Citizen or Permanent Resident