Job Description
KCCB-ACTS/9/2022/12 – HEALTH INFORMATICS OFFICER.
JOB PURPOSE
The Health Informatics Officer will work closely with KCCB ACTS technical team
members and health facility team and is a dedicated resource for designing,
developing, and maintaining EMR/EHR and a suite of other software applications.
The candidate will serve as a key software development focal person who can
translate KCCB - ACTS data requirements into a final, robust, scalable, and secure
software product.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Enhance existing EMR/EHR by analyzing program requirements, preparing
an action plan and identifying areas for modification and improvement;
2. Utilize established development tools, guidelines and conventions to design,
develop, and test the EMR/EHR;
3. Maintain existing EMR/EHR by identifying and correcting software defects;
4. Engaging users and the program technical team in order to prioritize system
feature requests;
5. Provide insight regarding usability and user experience to guide the
development and impact of the EMR/HER for KCCB ACTS program;
6. Work closely with KCCB ACTS Monitoring and Evaluation Officers, Program
Technical Advisors and facility teams in defining and achieving data quality
objectives;
7. Empower/train EMR users about functionalities of the systems
8. Learn and develop skills to keep abreast with new technologies;
9. Leverage knowledge and contribute to proper knowledge management within
the program;
10.Contributes to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed;
11.Develop other software applications as requested;
12.Any other duties that may be reasonably assigned.
Minimum Qualifications, Experience & Skills
1. Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a closely related field
2. At least three (3) years of system programming experience with
responsibilities that includes software development, database
development, system integration, data migration, and system performance
optimization.
3. Experience with EMR/EHR software is mandatory
4. Experience in software development to include web applications, clientfacing user interfaces, system integration and interoperability.
5. Working experience with either ASP.NET and/or Java.
6. Experience in mobile programming (android) is definite advantage
7. Excellent understanding of modern database design and development (MSSQL, MySQL, Postgres).
8. Understands unit testing, APIs, JSON, jQuery, serialization, object oriented
programming, data exchange, source control
9. Ability to investigate and develop skills in new technologies
10.Prior experience with Kenya EMR is highly desirable but not mandatory
11.Strong organizational and interpersonal skills.
12.Ability to work in a team environment, collaborating and sharing ideas
13.A willingness to meet new challenges with enthusiasm and meet deadlines
in fast paced environment
14.Statistical analysis skills and experience is desirable
Other Personal Attributes
1. Integrity
2. Self driven
3. Innovative
4. Intelligent
5. Detail oriented
6. Resilient
7. Results oriented
8. Team Player