AVP, Population Health Science

Description

NCQA is seeking an Assistant VP of Population Health and Primary Care Science to join our growing team of professionals devoted to improving health and health care in the United States.

Reporting to the VP of Quality Sciences, the qualified candidate will lead the development of next-generation evidence-based measurement and reporting tools that care delivery organizations, health care systems, and health plans will use to achieve quality improvement and equity objectives.

These tools will leverage the digital transformation of health care to support more proactive, effective, and nimble quality improvement and equity programs by supporting more effective reporting and value-based contracting.

As health care embraces virtual care, digital health capabilities, and other new care models, NCQA is rapidly evolving its traditional accreditation and quality measurement approaches.

NCQA is a national non-profit organization that accredits and reports on the quality of health plans and other health care organizations.

The Quality Measurement and Research Group (QMRG) at NCQA includes more than one hundred staff who develop and maintain the Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) the most widely used set of evidence-based performance measures in the U.

S. QMRG staff partner with federal, state, and private funders to conduct novel applied research and development on quality measurement and improvement, advance equity in health care, and assist partners to operate reporting and improvement programs.

QMRG leads projects supported by more than $20 million annually in extramural funding.

Primary Responsibilities :

• Leadership and Strategic Planning
• Develop and lead a portfolio of extramurally funded projects in population health and primary care and innovative measures that support NCQA’s future strategic plan and its products and services.
• Provide guidance and expertise on population health topics e.g., treatment and preventive services in the ambulatory settings, such as immunizations, child and adolescent health, screening and follow-up services, maternal health, women’s health to NCQA’s product and service development teams as well as other NCQA units.
• Generating, maintaining evidence-based performance measures, and evaluating quality accountability and improvement systems
• Set strategic direction for developing, expanding, and maintaining quality measures designed to improve the quality of health in preventive services and wellness.
• Lead the translation of knowledge about health care quality and health systems improvement into measurement and guidance tools NCQA will embed in products and services for health plans and organizations and clinicians that deliver care.
• Oversee the teams developing population health quality measures.
• Serve as investigator or subject matter expert on externally funded projects focusing on areas of preventive care (e.g.

immunizations, cancer screening and follow-up, care plans), wellness (e.g., smoking cessation, weight and nutritional management), pediatrics (e.

g., infants, children, youth, young adults) and maternal child health. Be able to assess new and emerging areas of population health, e.

g., genetic screening, women’s health (perimenopause).

• Able to anticipate and discern areas on innovation on preventive services, wellness, and emerging areas of population health.
• Strengthen NCQA’s core competency in quality knowledge development, drawing on market intelligence and published literature to guide development of novel quality measurement approaches.
• Oversee staff and teams, lead the testing, validity, reliability, reach, and impact of NCQA’s quality and equity tools.
• Build, maintain, and communicate the evidence base used by advisory and consensus committees and panels to optimize the scientific rigor and build trust in NCQA products and services.
• Ensure collaboration across NCQA departments on the development, alignment and curation of health data standards that support NCQA’s digital quality agenda.
• Communications and Stakeholder Engagement
• Lead the generation of presentations and publications that convey NCQA’s quality strategy and the evidence base that is the foundation of NCQA’s measures and other products.
• Develop and maintain collaborative partnerships with leaders of federal, state-based, and private organizations working on topics related to digital quality measurement and improvement.
• Represent NCQA to organizations, expert panels, and policy-making bodies that can advance NCQA’s mission and vision for improving quality and equity, including presentations, blogs, papers and peer-reviewed publications.
• Stay abreast and anticipate new or updated guidance from organizations establishing prevention services (e.g., USPSTF, CDC, ACOG, ACIP);

determine which new or updated guidance is important to develop measurement or products in anticipation of policy or market needs.

• Business Development
• In coordination with QMRG colleagues, collaborate with external partners to seek extramural funding for innovative quality improvement initiatives from federal, state, foundation, and corporate sources.
• Collaborate with colleagues NCQA’s Growth Office on a portfolio of projects that enhance the scientific integrity of NCQA’s performance measures.
• Management and Mentorship
• Provide leadership, oversight, mentoring, and supervision of a team of 3-5 direct reports and 5 9 indirect reports, along with staff who participate in the evaluation, application of best evidence, and technical initiatives.
• Collaborate with QMRG leadership to establish professional training, mentorship, and career development opportunities for NCQA staff.
• Establish an ongoing, disciplined process for assessing and addressing gaps in capability, knowledge, and skill (through training, hiring, co-developing, outsourcing, and partnering).

Requirements :

• Minimum of 10+ years of leadership experience in the health care field focusing extensively on performance measurement, quality improvement, and health services research or health policy.
• Experience using measurement and evaluation to achieve quality improvement in clinical settings.
• Experience in developing and reporting for contracting or value-based payment (e.g., ACO) using digital data standards, data exchange, or other semi-automated processes for performance reports.
• Demonstrated ability to grow and oversee and manage a complex portfolio of initiatives and projects related to performance measurement and improvement.
• Strong management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with a variety of research, health care, technical experts, or consultant partners.
• A strong track record of publications and presentations on health care quality and related topics.
• Graduate degree in a health-related field with special emphasis on health services research, informatics, population, or public health.

DrPH, D.N.P., M.D., or Ph.D. preferred.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities

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