Job Position: Senior Electronic Medical Record (EMR) Advisor – seconded to Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH):
Number of position: Two
Duty station: FMOH, Addis Ababa
Job summary:
The Advisor will work closely with FMoH Planning Program Department (PPD), engage with the National Health Advisory Committee and HIS TWG, and provide TA support at all levels of FMoH as per direction of the HIS Associate Director with a focus on EMR. The Advisor will be the key liaison between ICAP and FMOH for all EMR-related project objectives and activities.
Duties and responsibilities:
· Provide support to the FMOH in planning, designing, developing, or upgrading of the EMR
· Conduct a workflow analysis, offer implementation roadmaps, and define optimization strategies
· Conduct needs assessment and troubleshoot issues that arise during implementation and recommend specific solutions such as installation of alternate methods and procedures, changes in processing methods and practices, or redesign of processes and workflows
· Undertake activities associated with system updates, upgrades, and conversions
· Deploy IT change control process and ensure users are educated on all changes
· Support the FMOH in development of training and deployment plan of the system and support during deployment of the system and trainings
· Undertake documenting and tracking application development and production technical flow, setting standards, implementing controls, and following procedures to maintain systems
· Conduct regular and systematic reviews of security risks in accordance with international and national standards, implement security updates as necessary, and correct identified security deficiencies as part of risk management process
· Coordinate in selection and implementation of data/system security measures at all levels of the health system
· Confer with appropriate managers regarding problems with and capabilities of database systems
· Execute scripts or ad hoc reports
· Provide technical support and troubleshoot problems on local area networks (LAN) and data networks if appropriate
· Participate in reviewing and implementing national health data sharing policy
· Develop/adopt data backup and recovery mechanisms and policy to be implemented at all levels of the health system
· Participate in developing patient data access and confidentiality rules and procedures
· Complete performance reports regularly
· Carry out other tasks as required
Qualification and experience
· BSc in public health, nursing, Medicine or other health-related fields and Masters degree in Software engineering, ICT or health informatics
· At least 8 years of experience in health sector with more than six years directly working on the health information management, including HMIS, EMR or other patient monitoring systems
· Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of the Ethiopian heath system, health information systems, and HIV-related information management, including patient monitoring
· Ability to lead and produce results with a strong knowledge of results-based management
· Strong oral and written skills in English and Amharic
· Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word and Excel, and databases including SQL/oracle or any other RDBNS is required
· Strong skills in interpretation of program monitoring and evaluation data are required