Data Scientist/Health Science Specialist CDS Platform Support
Related to NAICS 541715 - Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences (except Nanotechnology and Biotechnology) based on the necessity of service provider to interpret and evaluate medically related data.
PSC D318 IT and Telecom Integrated Hardware/Software/Services Solutions, Predominantly Services based on core requirement of overseeing data entry and system interface.
Seeking capable and interested vendor to provide Data Scientist/Health Science Specialist services to maintain, manage, monitor, trouble-shoot, and optimize data systems supporting National Dashboards and Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools. The overall effort is to support quality improvement initiatives for mental or behavioral health treatment and suicide prevention for the Program Evaluation and Resource Center (PERC) of the Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Department of Veterans Affairs.B Services include medical informatics design, optimization, implementation, and documentation using Microsoft products, and project management support of PERCs monthly clinical informatics development cycle.B
Specific Tasks:
Create and deploy a documentation system and documentation content(s) to support requirements across PERC-supported products. The goal is to have technical documentation that facilitates communication between developers within PERC and with broader VA.B The documentation system and content(s) must meet the following requirements:
Have a central location with good usability standards and easy visualization, navigation, and structure.
Enable highlighting of latest updates.
Search function that identifies words in title or within the documents.
Allow access by PERC and non-PERC staff on an internal VA server with permissions that use Windows certificates.
Distinguish and maintain designated access controls between documentation accessible only by PERC staff and documentation accessible by the broader VA.
Create documentation guided per PERC staff, such as outlining the Clinical Decision Support (CDS) architecture, data dictionaries for tables and datasets, best practices for developers, project specific definitions and FAQs, templates for planning and validation, as well as other support documentation necessary.
Be easy to access for editing of the documentation with version control by PERC staff.
Allow PERC staff to share documentation efficiently with non-VA entities to support collaboration with partners outside the VA such as the Department of Defense and Cerner Corporation.
Required Experience / Qualifications:
Project personnel must include team members with at least 3 years of experience and expertise with design of clinical tools and reports and use of Microsoft products as described in 7.2 in VA systems, including the VA Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW).
Project personnel must include team members with at least 3 years of experience and expertise using Microsoft products including:
SQL (Structured Query Language)
SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services)
SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services)
PowerShellB B B B B B B B
TFS/VSDT (Team Foundation Server/Visual Studio Design Tools)
Project management personnel must include team members with at least 3 years of expertise with agile software development and maintenance practices including:
Sprint design and management
JIRA-based project tracking and management
Included Key personnel shall have at least 3 years work experience in deploying data warehouse-based clinical decision support tools (CDS) within VA platforms including, but not limited to, data extraction, clinical reasoning, and interface design. By clinical decision support this contract refers to SQL based reports that aggregate complex clinical data from large populations of patients and present actionable data at the point of care.
Included Key personnel shall have experience in design and testing of data-warehouse based clinical decision support systems for use in primary care and mental health settings. Experience working with clinical data related to opioid and psychotropic prescriptions and safety protocols, and mental health assessments are highly desirable.
Included Key personnel shall have knowledge of monitoring the performance of data extraction, transformation, and presentation systems to support deployment of clinical decision support.
Included Key personnel shall have experience working with sensitive protected health information specifically related to mental health conditions and substance use disorders.
All personnel shall have excellent interpersonal skills and sensitivity to clinical decision support usability, demonstrated by work experiences as a member of a collaborative team that has implemented and supported deployment of clinical decision support tools within operational clinical environments.
All personnel shall have data security, record retention, and medical record privacy policy expertise.B All personnel must obtain Without Compensation (WOC) status within 45 days of contract initiation. This designation identifies that the individual is not on the VA employee payroll but allows them access to VA data systems and other resources.B The contractor shall receive prior approval from VA and PERC prior to hiring subcontractors.
Need date: September 02, 2019, Base Plus One Option Year.
Response Method:
The Government requests capability statements and comments from interested businesses regarding the requirements described above.
Send to: larry.facio@va.gov with subject line: VAPAHCS CDS Support
Respond by July 23, 2019.
Larry Facio
larry.facio@va.gov
Larry.Facio@va.gov
