Digital Health Innovation Lead — Pilots & Impact

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 106,000 - 118,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston seeks a Senior Digital Health Innovation Analyst to identify, evaluate, and implement emerging digital health technologies addressing business and clinical challenges. You will partner with IT, operations, clinical, research, and innovation teams to design pilots, benchmark external trends, and translate insights into practical digital health strategies.

This position is funded through September 2028, with potential for extension, and emphasizes

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Health Informatics, Healthcare Administration, Public Health, Business, or related field preferred.
8-10 years of experience in business and/or healthcare required.
Experience shaping solutions for complex business, clinical, and operational challenges preferred.
Experience leading workshops to align leaders on outcomes and tradeoffs and running hands-on user research to test assumptions preferred.

Responsibilities

Serve as an internal consultant to clinical, research, operational, and administrative teams, leading intake, discovery, and opportunity assessment for digital health innovation; clarify problem statements, user needs, strategic objectives, scope, success metrics, and evaluation approaches.
Partner cross-functionally with clinical, research, operations, IT, compliance, privacy, security, patient-facing, and staff-facing stakeholders to conduct interviews, workshops, workflow observation, and needs assessment; synthesize findings into feasible digital solutions that address business and clinical challenges.
Guide the planning, implementation, and delivery of digital health pilots and solutions, partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to align on approach, timelines, risks, requirements, testing, training, go-live, stabilization, and post-launch optimization to support adoption and operational performance.
Conduct external benchmarking, market scans, literature and industry research, and vendor/partner engagement to evaluate emerging capabilities, compare leading practices, inform solution selection, support demos and RFP processes, and help manage deliverables, performance, and issue resolution.
Develop clear, decision-oriented documentation and implementation artifacts, including research summaries, benchmark findings, recommendations, workflow analyses, requirements, roadmaps, and governance approaches to support adoption, enhancements, delivery planning, and change management.
Analyze qualitative and quantitative data to assess user needs, adoption, experience, outcomes, efficiency, and ROI; synthesize internal findings and external benchmarks into actionable insights and recommendations for leadership and key stakeholders.
Advise stakeholders on alignment with institutional strategy and ensure solutions are evaluated and implemented in accordance with applicable policies, regulatory requirements, and risk considerations, including privacy, HIPAA, security, clinical safety, and data stewardship.