Job Description :
Must be Local to MD, VA, Washington DC
Title: Subject matter expert (SME) for development of a strategy for business intelligence (BI) and public health informatics (PHI

Total experience 10 plus years of IT
· Specialized Experience:
1. At least five (5) years of experience relating to selection, implementation, enhancement, support, and/or governance of BI / PHI systems that produce actionable insight from healthrelated data or can demonstrate five (5) years’ experience of similar experience of size and like scope.
2. Demonstrated experience and comfort with BI / PHI technical development and skills.
3. This SME role is not for a technical-development role. It is for a strategy-and-planning role. But demonstrable technical-development skills in the BI / PHI domain are necessary.
4. Demonstrated experience at engaging with senior stakeholders to promote understanding and facilitate decisions relating to BI / PHI systems.
5. Demonstrated ability to work across multiple organizations.
6. Demonstrated excellence at preparing written documents and presentations
Preferred Qualifications:
· Education: Master’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Computer Science, and Information Systems, Business or other related discipline.
· General Experience:
1. Demonstrated four (4) years or more of experience in leadership of BI / PHI systems, for example as a Director of Analytics, Data Quality Lead, Senior PHI Analyst, etc.
2. Demonstrated experience with two or more procurements and implementations relating to BI / PHI systems.
3. Demonstrated experience in some or all of the following areas:
· Specialized Experience:
1. Strategies for achieving effective data acquisition, interchange, management, quality, storage, and insight to address population health needs, with special emphasis on defining standards, enabling interchange, and delivering insight.
2. Applicable laws, statues, and policies regarding health information including security, privacy, and management of confidential data.
3. Applicable healthcare and public health standards, message formats, and transport mechanisms.
4. Statistical analysis and business analysis.
5. Business operations, methods, and practices.
6. Database and data warehouse development, use, and management.
7. Data collection and use methodologies, including survey research, registry operations, usability studies, focus groups, and interview data collection and analysis
8. Data interchange methodologies and technologies.

Objective:
· To obtain one (1) qualified subject matter expert (SME) for development of a strategy for business intelligence (BI) and public health informatics (PHI
· The BI / PHI strategy is in context of a potential new Electronic Health/Medical Record (EHR) system for State agencies that operate facilities delivering healthcare services.
· The BI / PHI strategy will consist of an assessment of needs; an inventory of existing technologies and capabilities in State agencies; the identification of leading technologies and platforms available in the marketplace, including a request-for-information (RFI) process; the identification and documentation of "success stories" in other States; and the recommendation of leading practices for data quality and data governance. The SME will need to demonstrate previous experience in performing this kind of analysis and developing these kinds of recommendations within the BI / PHI domain.
· The primary agencies developing this BI / PHI strategy are the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) and the Department of Public Safety and Corrections (DPSCS The SME will be a key member of a BI / PHI team composed of representatives from these two agencies and selected other agencies. The BI / PHI team will be coordinated and managed by a DHMH Manager.
· The mission of DHMH is to protect the public’s health. For which, DHMH operates twelve hospital facilities and administers dozens of public health programs. These facilities and programs rely on a broad range of IT systems for their enablement. The vision for the facilities is to retire the legacy mainframe system and migrate to a modern EHR system, the strategy for which is being developed by contractors under separate RFRs. The vision for the dozens of applications in the public-health administrations is to generate actionable insight from the broad array of legacy systems, the BI / PHI strategy for which is to be developed by the SME.
Duties/Responsibilities:
· The SME for a BI / PHI Strategy will bring experience and expertise in:
· Definition of requirements and workflows relating to BI / PHI systems, with prior experience in the public-health domain;
· Recommendation, evaluation, and/or selection of BI / PHI systems for implementation and integration;
· Implementation and support of a modern BI / PHI platform, including comfort with technical activities and decision points;
· Design and operation of governance models for data quality and data sharing; and
· Presentations and recommendations for executive-level decision-makers.
· For the project planned under this RFR, the SME will:
· Analyze existing BI / PHI platforms and capabilities at DHMH and DPSCS, plus those of other organizations as may be decided by the project''s executive sponsors;
· Perform marketplace research, possibly including collaboration with the DHMH Manager in development, issuance, and summary of an RFI to be distributed to selected vendors;
· Be responsible for the BI / PHI content in the project deliverables in Appendix A;
· Develop trusted-advisor relationships with senior stakeholders at DHMH, DPSCS, and other selected agencies;
· Demonstrate clarity, brevity, and courtesy in written and verbal communications; and
· Respond to requests from the project executive sponsors, who are the CIOs of DHMH and DPSCS, as reasonably requested in relation to the deliverables and activities for this project.
· The SME will be located primarily at the DHMH headquarters in downtown Baltimore and will visit other State facilities and offices as appropriate.
Subject Matter Expert TASKS
1. Engage in an accelerated "discovery" process to become familiar with existing analyses, existing systems, past procurements, organizational structures, and procurement processes.
2. Be responsible for BI / PHI content in the following project deliverables:
a. Requirements Document: Collection, refinement, organization, assessment, reconciliation, and prioritization of BI / PHI requirements within DHMH, DPSCS, and other designated agencies, if any.
b. BI / PHI Assets Inventory: Identification of personnel, technologies, and platforms within DHMH, DPSCS, and other designated agencies for purposes of BI / PHI.
c. Information Use Cases: Development of information use cases to promote the definition and understanding of both the requirements for and the value from a BI / PHI system.
d. RFI Document: Preparation and distribution of an RFI document in accordance with approved templates and procedures relating to State procurements.
e. RFI Findings Document: Organization of the results of the RFI process, including the results of marketplace research, into a single document that includes an executive summary. This document shall not contain recommendations regarding particular vendor solutions.
             

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