Aptive Resources Names Dr. Lynda Hoeksema Director of Health Informatics and Clinical Quality
Aptive Resources Names Dr. Lynda Hoeksema Director of Health Informatics and Clinical Quality
Aptive Resources announces the appointment of Lynda S. Hoeksema, DNP, RN, FNP-BC, NI-BC, FAMIA, ACHIP as Director of Health Informatics and Clinical Quality. In this role, Dr. Hoeksema serves as program manager and clinical subject-matter expert for the Aptive’s Human System Services initiative with the Department of Veterans Affairs, advancing human-centered technology design, interoperability and clinical quality initiatives across Aptive’s federal health portfolio.
Dr. Hoeksema brings more than three decades of clinical practice as a family nurse practitioner and 15 years of regional and national informatics leadership. Most recently, she was a principal at MITRE, where she advised the Veterans Health Administration’s Human Systems Integration division and supported initiatives for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, National Institutes of Health and other government agencies. Her work includes HL7/FHIR interoperability leadership across the PACIO and Gravity projects; real-world evidence research supporting the FDA and change enablement for large-scale electronic health record environments using Oracle Health Millennium and Epic.
“Lynda is a rare combination of clinician, informaticist and strategist,” said Tammy Czarnecki, Aptive’s Executive Vice President for Veteran Health. “Her track record in human-centered technology, interoperability and evidence-based quality improvement will help our clients accelerate safe, effective adoption of health IT and deliver better outcomes for patients and providers.”
Dr. Hoeksema is a Fellow and Diplomate of the American Medical Informatics Association achieving recognition with both FAMIA and AMIA Certified Health Informatics Professional (ACHIP) credentials. She is dual board-certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) and in Informatics Nursing. She earned a Doctor of Nursing Practice from The Ohio State University, where her capstone focused on human factors and cognitive informatics competencies for informaticists.