Sobre este puesto de Project Manager, FEHRM Healthcare Technology Management - Interoperability en Blue Water Thinking
About Blue Water Thinking
Guided by our principles of value generation, continuous innovation, customer-centricity, and vested collaboration, Blue Water Thinking proudly supports our Federal clients in achieving their Agency goals.
Founded by a decorated twenty-eight year Veteran of the United States Army, Blue Water Thinking understands and supports the mission of our Nation's war fighters, Veterans, their families and caretakers.
Leveraging our executive team's military experience and private and public sector consulting expertise, Blue Water Thinking takes an integrated "one-team" approach and brings to bear best-fit solutions, thought leadership, and grit to meet our client's transformational needs.
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Lastly, our formula for success is simple: Build something good, take care of our people, keep our clients satisfied, nurture our work ethic and reputation, build long-lasting partnerships, enjoy what we do and give back as much as possible.
Job Description:
The Interoperability Project Manager supports healthcare technology management (HTM) interface work associated with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization (FEHRM) program. This role coordinates simultaneous interface workstreams across multiple VA medical centers. The Project Manager works directly with national, regional, and site-level Biomedical Engineering and clinical teams, technical teams, Oracle Health, third-party vendors, and program management offices across the VA enterprise.
Successful candidates bring recent, practical experience with healthcare interfaces, medical device integration, HTM operations, or healthcare technology deployment, along with strong project coordination skills. They can participate in a technical discussion, recognize an open issue, ask questions to understand its workflow and milestone impacts, and communicate those impacts clearly to leadership.
*Travel associated with this role will consist of being away for about a week every 2 months*
Responsibilities:
- Ability to coordinate interface planning, schedules, dependencies, testing, issue resolution, and deployment milestones across technical, vendor, and VA site teams in a large-scale program with multiple concurrent hospital systems.
- Participate actively in interface and workflow discussions with Oracle Health, facility teams, and technical specialists. Ask focused questions to clarify requirements, ownership, open issues, and next steps.
- Recognize when a technical or workflow issue may affect testing, deployment readiness, or another project milestone; document the impact and escalate concerns at the appropriate time.
- Track decisions, risks, action items, and owners through resolution across multiple facilities and stakeholders.
- Translate detailed interface discussions into accurate meeting documentation, status reports, executive summaries, and leadership briefings.
- Coordinate follow-up among Biomedical Engineering, clinical staff, technical teams, vendors, and program stakeholders.
- Support interface work throughout planning, testing, deployment, and post-deployment follow-up.
- Work within applicable VHA processes, federal requirements, and healthcare technology practices.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education and at least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
- Recent, practical experience with healthcare interfaces, medical device integration, hospital HTM operations, or healthcare systems implementation.
- Experience coordinating projects or complex work across technical, clinical, vendor, and leadership stakeholders.
- Working understanding of interface activities sufficient to follow technical discussions, identify unresolved questions, and recognize project or workflow impacts.
- Ability to ask useful technical follow-up questions, drive action items to resolution, and communicate issues clearly to technical teams and leadership.
- Self-starter with strong organizational skills, sound judgment, intellectual curiosity, and excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience supporting VHA operations or a multi-facility EHR deployment.
- Familiarity with Oracle Health Cerner Millennium or VA FEHRM.
- Familiarity with HL7 messaging or healthcare interface testing; expert-level HL7 proficiency is not required.
- Experience with medical device, imaging, laboratory, or other clinical system interfaces.
- Familiarity with applicable healthcare regulatory requirements and standards.
- Experience using tools, including AI-assisted tools, to improve documentation, analysis, or workflow efficiency.
Eligibility Requirements:
- Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship.
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a federal public trust clearance.
Compensation:
Salary for this position is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, location, the candidate’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies and experience, as well as contract specific affordability and organizational requirements. The proposed salary range for this position is outlined below.
Salary range: $95,000 - $125,000
Blue Water Thinking offers a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance (medical, dental and vision), paid time off, federal holidays, and matching 401K plan.
Reasonable Accommodation for Applicants
Blue Water Thinking is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities throughout the application and hiring process. If you require a reasonable accommodation to search for a position, complete an application, or participate in the interview process, please contact Resource Management at [email protected]. Requests for accommodation will be handled promptly and confidentially in accordance with applicable law.
Our Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity.
Blue Water Thinking is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We recruit, hire, train, and promote qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
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