Détails de l'annonce
Organisation : Médecins Sans Frontières - Artsen Zonder Grenzen
Site web : http://www.msf.be
Adresse email : geraldine.pellegrin@brussels.msf.org
Lieu de l'emploi : BRUSSELS /
Type d'emploi : Contrat à durée déterminée
Type de contrat : Temps plein
Fonction : Santé
Date de publication : 08/09/2016
Date limite : 01/10/2016
Profil
CANDIDATE PROFILE
Qualifications
- A masters level degree in public health or epidemiology
- 5 or more years professional experience in a similar role is preferred
- Clinical experience strongly preferred
- Experience working with relational databases desirable
- Familiarity with medical coding standards such as UMLS and ICD-10 desirable
- Experience with DHIS 2, OpenMRS or commercial health information systems tools desirable
- Experience in MSF (at field or HQ level) is preferred
- Strong negotiation skills. Ability to challenge counterparts arguments
- Able to travel to the field once or twice per year as needed
- Willing to work in an international, multidisciplinary and humanitarian environment
- Experience in training is an asset
- Fluent English with the ability to write clearly - fluency and writing skills in French is a strong asset
CONDITIONS
- Fixed-term contract 12 months extendable - Full-time - Based in Brussels MSF Headquarter
- Hospital Insurance (DKV) - Pension plan – Canteen – 100% reimbursement for public transportation costs
- Starting date: immediate
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION / 01/10/2016
Please submit all applications only by email to: Géraldine Pellegrin (Recruit-HQ-Operations@brussels.msf.org ) stating eHealth Epidemiologist in the title. Please submit only one file containing your CV and cover letter and name the file with your last name only
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted
Description
CONTEXT
OPS eHealth Support Unit Vision statement
Field-focused, bottom-up approach, governance-minded, we aim to provide MSF operations dedicated digital services support for humanitarian medical services.
OPS eHealth Support Unit Mission statement
Médecins sans Frontières Operational Centre Brussels (MSF OCB) understands eHealth as the use in the MSF field of digital tools and electronic components of all kind for medical/operational purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, Telemedicine, GIS, UAV’s, mHealth, Health Information System, EMR…
We provide first line ICT services and tools, from needs analysis to solutions identification and project management. We identify new tools, assess proposed solutions, support with the implementation and day-to-day maintenance (directly or thought external partners), build and update the eHealth products catalogue. We capitalize on experiences and lessons learned and share them globally to ensure the best solutions for all projects.
Nature of the function
For years MSF has tried to build and operate eHealth/mHealth projects in the field with mixed results. Due to lack of project methodology, governance and poor communication, different issues have been observed: many stakeholders involved with little or no coherence and strategic overview, multiple eHealth tools deployed in OCB with little or no inter-operability, limited support planned, no sharing of good and bad experiences resulting in the reinvention of similar solutions, etc…
In order to resolve these issues, a mapping of all ongoing initiatives was done and a strategy to go forward was proposed. This includes the creation of an eHealth Unit in the OPS department to handle field requests for all eHealth projects and assure maximum return on investment of deployed eHealth systems.
On the other hand, The Medical Department (MED) provides technical support on medical issues and strategic guidance for the operations of MSF’s OCB. The department is composed of advisors in various fields, among them health informatics. The medical department’s health informatics support to operations facilitates the collection and analysis of data for project monitoring and epidemiologic surveillance. As OCB begins the adoption of Electronic Medical Records systems, this support will extend to the collection and analysis of data for patient management, hospital management, and clinical support.
Integrated within OCB headquarters OPS eHealth Unit and OCB Medical Department, the eHealth Epidemiologist, provides epidemiologic support to the eHealth team to ensure that the content managed by the tools being developed and configured is optimized to support medical and operational decision making and patient care.
JOB PROFILE
- Ensure that the data collected by OCB eHealth systems are appropriate, complete yet concise, and properly documented given their intended uses
- Ensure that the outputs of the health information system are aligned with MSF’s technical and operational standards. In practice this is accomplished by:
- Reviewing the monitoring and surveillance indicators and, in collaboration with the subject matter experts in the medical department and managers in operations, effecting any changes in the health information system needed to keep it consistent with current needs.
- Collaborating with subject matter experts and operational managers to develop reporting formats to best convey current operational intelligence.
- Ensure consistency of medical event information across OCB operations and platforms. This is primarily accomplished by developing or adapting case and concept definitions for the subjects of analysis as well as developing methods for harmonization of necessarily heterogeneous data.
- Promote data quality by development of quality checks and validation rules that may be used by the health information system
- Provide or support training activities on data driven decision-making and data quality
- Assist in ongoing monitoring of data quality
- Act as first line technical resource for public health content of eHealth tools
- Business analysis of clinical and managerial information needs to inform design of eHealth tools
- Participate in international collaboration between eHealth teams
- Act as public health expert for new tool development and represent the interests and input of other technical referents