Technical Summary

As a Senior Consultant: Coordinate health IT enterprise strategies, government policies, and industry standards. Keep an eye on the horizon to monitor, understand, and communicate the changing healthcare information and technology environment. You will ensure appropriate Kaiser Permanente representation and influence in government advisory bodies, technical trade associations, and industry standards bodies. Spark thought leadership to develop Kaiser Permanente consensus positions on health IT regulations, legislation, standards, and policies by partnering with expert stakeholders and considering impacts on Kaiser Permanente members, patients, clinicians, organizations, systems, and processes. Leverage your expertise and experience in health IT, informatics, standards, and regulatory policies to create a vision of how the future should work to enable Kaiser Permanente's model, mission, beliefs, priorities, and strategies, and influence KP and industrywide coalitions to support change.

Job Summary:

Coordinates and participates in external health information technology (IT) policy and standards advocacy through leading the provision of representation and participation with external organizations; provides internal consulting on health IT issues by driving identification, development, and recommendation of KP strategic policy positions, and advising and leading consultation with internal stakeholders, teams, and senior executives; oversees tracking, assessing, and responding to health IT-related legislations, regulations, and sub-regulatory actions, and leads the development of KP response and action plans; facilitates strategic changes at KP around health IT-related policy through leading coordination of updates to internal KP security and cybersecurity policy, and coordination across leadership and functions to communicate strategic policy direction; and leads engagement in health IT technical standards development and maintenance efforts.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Promotes learning in others by communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; builds collaborative, cross-functional relationships. Solicits and acts on performance feedback; provides actionable feedback to others, including upward feedback to leadership; influences, mentors, and coaches team members. Practices self-leadership; creates, evaluates, and responds to the strengths and weaknesses of self and unit or team members. Leads the adaptation to competing demands and new responsibilities; adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback. Fosters open dialogue amongst team members.

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying member and operational needs; translates business strategy into actionable business requirements; develops and updates new procedures and policies. Gains cross-functional support for objectives and priorities; determines and carries out processes and methodologies; solves highly complex issues; escalates and resolves issues as appropriate; sets standards and measures progress. Develops work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; coordinates, obtains and distributes resources. Removes obstacles that impact performance; guides performance and develops contingency plans accordingly; influences the completion of project tasks by others.

• Coordinates and participates in external health information technology (IT) policy advocacy, including standards, by: leading participation in health IT federal and state public policy advocacy and standards development organizations, in coordination with Government Relations and Legal; driving the preparation and delivery of testimony, presentations, and/or participation in committees and public policy and standards forums; and leading and participating in the provision of representation at external industry groups, standards development organizations, partnership organizations, government advisory groups, and key coalitions in formulating and advocating multi-stakeholder health IT policy related to health IT topics (e.g., health IT standards, interoperability, quality, privacy, cybersecurity, public health, health equity, advanced technologies), consistent with KP public policy principles and positions.

• Provides internal consulting at KP on health IT issues by: driving the identification, development, and recommendation of KP strategic policy positions on health IT issues; advising and influencing senior executives across all KP regions, functions, programs, and entities on the adoption and implementation of finalized federal and/or state policies related to health IT topics (e.g., (e.g., health IT standards, interoperability, quality, privacy, cybersecurity, public health, health equity, advanced technologies); advising and leading consultation with internal stakeholders and teams regarding potential impact or interpretation of finalized federal and/or state complex health IT policies; and leading the facilitation and coordination of the creation of policies around selected health IT policies.

• Tracks, assesses, and responds to health IT-related legislations, regulations, and sub-regulatory actions by: overseeing the monitoring, identification, prioritization, and documentation of health IT federal, state, and industry policy and standard developments; leading the management, development, and coordination of KP response and action plans in reaction to proposed health IT-related national and state regulation, laws, and sub-regulatory actions in collaboration with leaders across KP regions, functions, and entities; and leading the review, assessment, and response to new health IT federal, and/or state legislations, regulations, or sub-regulatory actions, and/or industry policies to identify and address emergent risks that affect or may affect KP.

• Facilitates strategic changes at KP around health IT-related policies and standards by: leading the creation and management of connections and communications for KPs national and regional leaders about health IT standards and policy-related technical requirements efforts; leading the assessment and coordination of updates to internal KP security and cybersecurity policy owned by the Technology Risk Organization (TRO); and leading coordination across leadership, IT portfolios, and functions to communicate strategic policy direction related to health IT and identify IT impacts of strategies and policies.

• Engages in health IT technical standards development and maintenance efforts by: leading the participation in prioritized technical standards development and maintenance activities (e.g., leadership committees, boards) at the national and international level; leading assessment and involvement in standards development for new and emerging technologies for possible use and influence by KP; leading analysis of health IT technical standards and development of KP responses in collaboration with leaders across KP regions, functions and entities; and coordinating and directing the activities of multiple internal (KP program-wide) and external (non-KP) stakeholders in health IT standards development and recommendations.

  Minimum Qualifications:

• Minimum three (3) years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports.

• Minimum five (5) years of experience in health information technology, health data, health policy, or a directly related field.

• Bachelors degree in Health Informatics, Health Information Management, Health Policy, Information Systems, Information Technology Policy, Nursing, Public Health, or related field AND minimum ten (10) years of experience in compliance, healthcare, health informatics, information technology (IT), IT consulting, legal, public health, or a directly related field OR Minimum thirteen (13) years of experience in compliance, healthcare, health informatics, information technology (IT), IT consulting, legal, public health, or a directly related field.

  Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs): Information Gathering; Market Risk Knowledge; Political Savvy; Government Operations; Business Value Communication; Internal Communications; Internal or External Publication; Leadership Communications; Storytelling; Confidentiality; Health Care Compliance; Health Care Policy; IT Standards, Procedures & Policies; Data Governance; Political Advocacy, Lobbying and Engagement; Relationship Building; IT Industry: Trends & Directions; Legal And Regulatory Requirements; Legislation Awareness; Data Privacy; Strategic Alignment; Risk Identification; Health Information Systems; Reputational Management

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Health IT Standards and Policy Consultant - Government Relations

LOCATION: Pleasanton, California

REQNUMBER: 1260253

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.