EMR/EHR Project Manager

The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health is seeking an EMR/EHR Project Manager to work remotely and support its $4.6B single award DHMSM IDIQ contract, known as MHS GENESIS.  This program provides modernization of Electronic Health Records (EHR) capabilities for the Department of Defense, supporting nearly 10 million service members and their families worldwide.

The EMR/EHR Project Manager will be responsible for the management, execution, ongoing tracking, and reporting of a wide variety of projects to bring about the successful completion of specific program goals and objectives.  This is a highly visible and complex implementation that includes a large group of stakeholders and functional teams across multiple customers, Leidos, and subcontractor teams. It is a fast paced, demanding environment.   The ideal candidate will be highly organized, with a keen awareness to identify and address issues that are unclear and may require the candidate to uncover a broader set of issues.   

Primary Responsibilities

• Provide project management and some oversight to the management of MHS GENESIS (Cerner Millennium) capabilities implementation.

• Develop and/or manage project work plans to include DHMSM business cases, pitches, schedule development and maintenance, milestones, critical paths, resource effort, resource requirements, capability requirements, risk documentation and mitigation, drives project deliverables, and project communications.  Successfully leading meetings, creating presentations, agendas, minutes, and documenting decisions, action items.

• Create, prioritize, and deliver on key initiatives and DHMSM strategy.

• Produce creative solutions to complex problems that affect the performance of the program, including analysis and the gaining of domain knowledge,

• Prepare and conduct presentations, to include contracted deliverables, to senior level program leadership, customer PMO and government leadership.

• Lead project planning sessions with project resources, which could include program leadership, customer PMO and government leadership.

• Resolve or assist in the resolution of conflicts within and between projects or functional areas.

• Identify and manage inter and intra-project dependencies.

• Manage geographically dispersed team members.

• Manage projects support elements to include the following: 

  • Training

  • Testing

  • Cyber EHR system interface configuration/implementation and operation

  • Commercial and DOD release management methodologies

  • Requirement’s interpretation and decomposition

  • Workflows

  • Engineering and design

Basic Qualifications

• BA degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6+ years of prior relevant experience.

• US Citizen with ability to obtain and maintain an ADP IT-II Public Trust Clearance based on the minimum of a Tier 3 investigation. Federal Government requirement.

• Experience managing projects within complex, enterprise wide, large-scale implementations.

• Strong analytical skills to include the understanding and documentation of business/clinical/Revenue Cycle processes.

• Cerner or other EMR implementation experience.

• Excellent communication skills in both written and verbal presentation.

• Demonstrates effective communication with senior management, clinical, administrative, revenue cycle and operational customers, and vendors.

• Ability to work well with people from different disciplines with varying degrees of technical and operational experience (IT personnel, Cyber/Security, Engineers, Developers, Testing, Training, Clinical, Financial SMEs, etc.).

• Ability to provide leadership and promote teamwork.

• Ability to manage project implementation teams and individuals and monitors the deliverables of each team to ensure milestone and on-budget completion.

Preferred Qualifications

• PMI PMP certification.

• Experience with large, complex government implementations.

• Clinical and/or technical Revenue Cycle background and successful EHR/EMR implementation experience.

• Hospital system, acute care, and ambulatory implementation experience.

• Familiarity with DOD communications/customs/processes.

Original Posting Date:

While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.