Director, Health Policy, Quality Improvement

Interested applicants should apply at:

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General Description:

Under the direction of the Vice President of Health Policy, the Director of Health Policy manages all quality improvement-related activities on behalf of the Heart Rhythm Society. The Director of Quality Improvement's responsibilities including implementing the Society's strategic goal to oversee the Society's performance measure development initiative and to raise awareness about heart rhythm care. The Director is also responsible for developing and maintaining high level relationships with physician associations, government agencies, health insurance companies, and performance measure workgroups. The Director serves as the primary liaison with the American College of Cardiology (ACC) on performance measures and quality initiative as well as the ACCF National Cardiovascular Data Registry's activities.

Specific (Essential) Responsibilities:  

Oversee the Measure Development Task Force to develop performance measures of heart rhythm care including managing the Task Force, preparing all written materials, overseeing the external consultants' efforts, ensuring that the HRS process is consistent with national consensus organizations and CMS guidance, preparing board reports, presentations, managing the project budget and meeting project deadline. The Director of Quality Improvement is also responsible for raising awareness and overseeing education on the performance measures initiative to internal and external stakeholders about the initiative.

Develop and execute outreach strategy on quality improvement initiatives including performance measures and registry initiatives for key HRS constituencies including: government officials, medical societies, health care providers, medical device manufacturers, and the public.

Develop, implement, and maintain a set of communication vehicles to inform external audiences about the Society's health policy objectives, actions, and priorities including developing or providing input to comment letters on proposed rules, congressional testimonies, media releases, research reports, and government publications.

Establish and maintain HRS representation on intersociety committees, working groups, and partnerships. Act as chief staff liaison and support HRS physicians to the AMA Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement, National Quality Forum, AQA (formerly the Ambulatory care Quality Alliance), American College of Cardiology (ACC), American Heart Association, American Medical Association, and other physician or government-convened organizations that address quality improvement and other health policy issues.

Serve as primary staff liaison to the Quality Improvement Subcommittee including identification of new members, developing the agenda and meeting materials and communications.  Prepare timely reports to the HRS' Health Policy Committee and Board of Trustees.

Serve as primary staff liaison to the Alliance of Specialty Medicine Quality Workgroup and HIT workgroup.

Develop programs and educational forums at the HRS Annual Conference, among other educational forums, to help HRS membership and participate in quality improvement efforts. Give public presentations to stakeholders on federal programs and measurement.

Influence health insurance providers to recognize performance measures and quality improvement initiatives that are optimal for heart rhythm care.

Encourage broad use of registries that collect information on heart rhythm care.

Support the Director, Reimbursement and Regulatory Affairs to develop content and product enhancement for HRS products and services including the HRS Coding Guide.

Work with health policy department staff and staff from other HRS departments as appropriate to involve HRS leaders and member experts to develop strategies for various quality-related projects.

Work with health policy department staff and other HRS staff to prepare materials for the HRS website.  

Other duties may be assigned.

Education and Experience: 

 Masters degree required

Ten or more years experience with health policy issues

Skills:

In-depth knowledge of the healthcare quality arena.

Superior organizational and communication skills with attention to detail; ability to coordinate multiple projects including action items, timelines, and budgets.

 Strong working knowledge with MS Office, electronic media programs and internet research.

Capabilities:

Can work without direct supervision, balancing multiple tasks to focus on appropriate priorities and follow standard procedures to accomplish assigned tasks.

Can work on complex tasks independently, is confident to provide public presentations and provide written and verbal updates to HRS members, leadership and staff.

Has experience writing lengthy documents that include references to clinical documents.

Has strong public speaking skills

Physical Requirements:

Ability to spend significant periods of time at  a computer station.

 Moderate travel including overnight trips to conferences, meetings, and critical events that address health policy initiatives.

Key Internal and external relationships:

Internal - Maintain good working relationships with all internal departments within the Society.

External - Maintain good working relationships with Society members and other medical societies' contacts, standard-setting organizations, other health care organizations, federal government agencies (HHS, CMS, FDA, AHRQ, and NIH), Congress and industry as appropriate. 

An equal opportunity employer.   All employment offers are contingent upon successful completion of a background screening.