As a Cardiovascular Health Management Coordinator, you would partner with community thought leaders, group practice physicians and other influential health care customers to improve patient and practice management. The primary focus will be to assist healthcare providers attain a higher level of patient health status within their patient populations. This will be accomplished through improvements in provider identification, diagnosis and management of cardiac risk factors and other cardiac disease processes in accordance with accepted guidelines (e.g. NCEP, AHCPR, etc.) and accepted quality of care performance measures (HEDIS, NCQA, JCAHO, etc.), implementing specific programs to achieve these goals. Specific job responsibilities include:
• effectively communicate information on burden of disease, pharmacoeconomics physician reimbursement and disease management objectives to healthcare professionals;
• perform needs assessment of physician practices relative to guideline adherence and outcomes performance measures-this should include the ability to implement programs which result in the identification of patients at risk of experiencing clinical events and/or consuming medical resources-cost effective and quality enhancing approaches will be emphasized through the use of educational programs, advocates, etc.;
• assist in the implementation of programs, projects, and plans that improve the percentage of patients appropriately treated from among a population of patients defined as medically appropriate for care-appropriately use available resources to meet these needs;
• demonstrate a general understanding of the geography's customer mix including financial relationships between them;
• provide healthcare providers with relevant clinical information by leveraging resources such as Medical Services and NLM;
• work closely and communicate with Professional Representatives, HSA's, Business Managers, Managers of Market Development, Regional Medical Directors, Managed Care, and other company personnel to optimally target program resources;
• coordinate the use of round tables, symposis, and other HEL activities with other Field and Support personnel, ensuring teamwork and
• willingness to travel and work an assigned geography, demonstrating a strong ability to influence and establish customer partnerships.
The ideal candidate will have strong communication skills, medical/product knowledge, disease management/outcomes knowledge, computer skills, creative selling skills/customer skills and leadership and project management success. In addition, this person will be a strong facilitator-consensus builder and have strong technical knowledge of therapeutic areas and healthcare public policy.
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