Health Informatics Lead for VA Modernization

LMI Consulting, LLC; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a Health Informatics Analyst/Clinical Lead to provide senior clinical integration for VA modernization initiatives from its Tysons, VA location. The role focuses on ensuring care delivery relevance, clinician workflow alignment, safety, and measurable outcomes.

Hybrid work with about 25% onsite presence at Tysons or DC. The ideal candidate will translate clinical needs into technical requirements, coach analysts, and lead clinical workflow analyses, pilots, and implementation

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in health informatics or related field
• 12+ years in clinical informatics, health informatics, clinical operations, digital health, or healthcare workflow transformation
• Demonstrated leadership analyzing clinical workflows and translating among clinicians, operational leaders, and technical teams
• Strong knowledge of clinical usability, human oversight, safety, workload, health data, and implementation constraints
• Ability to satisfy VA personnel vetting and requirements for sensitive health information, privacy, security, and records handling
• Demonstrated ability to translate between clinical operations and technical delivery, including converting workflow, safety, and usability concerns into clear requirements and decision criteria
• Experience facilitating senior clinicians, operational leaders, analysts, and technical teams through ambiguous workflow or implementation decisions
• Strong understanding of health information privacy, clinical data stewardship, human factors, and the limits of technology-enabled decision support in regulated care environments
• Senior-level experience in complex healthcare delivery environments with responsibility for clinical informatics, operational improvement, digital health, quality, or technology-enabled workflow change
• Ability to review technical concepts, data products, or AI-enabled capabilities at a level sufficient to identify clinical assumptions, data-context limitations, and workflow implications before deployment

Responsibilities

• Validate clinical problem statements, users, care settings, decision points, workflow burden, and intended outcomes
• Assess clinical fit, usability, human oversight, safety, workload, and operational feasibility of proposed solutions
• Define clinically meaningful baselines, measures, data needs, and interpretation guidance with data and evaluation teams
• Guide pilot design under representative workflow conditions and identify adoption barriers or unintended effects
• Bridge clinicians, clinical operations, HCD, data, architecture, engineering, security, and program leadership
• Coach clinical workflow staff and coordinate specialty SMEs when deeper domain expertise is required
• Escalate material clinical workflow, safety, or human-oversight concerns and document the basis for action
• Develop reusable clinical workflow and measurement practices for future VA initiatives
• Lead structured clinical discovery and future-state workflow design, ensuring clinical users, decision points, information needs, handoffs, exceptions, and safety considerations are explicitly represented
• Review proposed capabilities for human-factors, clinical usability, automation bias, escalation, override, and human-oversight considerations and identify conditions that require additional clinical review
• Define clinically meaningful baseline and outcome measures with data and evaluation staff, including clear interpretation of access, timeliness, burden, quality, utilization, safety, and workflow effects
• Guide pilot design and implementation observation in representative clinical settings, using findings to identify unintended consequences, adoption barriers, workflow disruption, or additional training and support needs
• Provide direction, peer review, and coaching to clinical workflow analysts and coordinate specialty clinical SMEs when a use case requires domain-specific expertise beyond the core team
• Maintain traceability from clinical problem statements and workflow findings through requirements, measures, pilot observations, risks, and implementation recommendations so clinical rationale is preserved

Skills

Clinical informatics

Stakeholder leadership

Workflow analysis

Clinical translation

Healthcare operations

Regulatory/privacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in health informatics or related field

Job description

LMI is seeking a Health Informatics Analyst/Clinical Lead to provide senior clinical integration for VA modernization initiatives from its Tysons, VA location. The role focuses on ensuring care delivery relevance, clinician workflow alignment, safety, and measurable outcomes.

Hybrid work with about 25% onsite presence at Tysons or DC. The ideal candidate will translate clinical needs into technical requirements, coach analysts, and lead clinical workflow analyses, pilots, and implementation