HL7 Interface Analyst

About the role

This position works in the Texas NBS Public Health Informatics and Data Exchange (PHID) Group and performs highly advanced (senior-level) health informatics work and systems analysis of the NBS-National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS).

Responsibilities

• Serve as technical Analyst to provide support and maintenance for the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System (NEDSS) and its ecosystem.
• Provides analysis and guidance to NEDSS users and relevant personnel in other department programs, local health departments, and health care facilities.
• Routinely monitor and evaluate division surveillance systems to ensure complete, accurate, and timely reporting of public health data.
• Assists in conducting annual communicable disease data close-out and reconciliation with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
• Uses highly specialized knowledge in analysis, requirement specification, programming, and system configuration in order to define and implement the details of the design solution.
• Works with interfaces that utilize and incorporate standardized health information exchange and vocabulary protocols.
• Leads specification definitions for complex reporting and data extract needs and clearly document needs that both business stakeholders and technical staff can understand and utilize to deliver timely solutions.
• Defines the extraction of health care data from conceptualization through defining data mining approaches and presentation of data.
• Provides consultation on the development of interoperability of other data collection systems with NEDSS with particular emphasis on the use of HL7 and Rhapsody.
• Interacts with program epidemiologists to ensure that NEDSS and Informatics program needs are met.
• Analyzes data exceptions and produces management reports.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited college or university with receipt of a Bachelor’s degree (or higher) Health Informatics, Computer Science, Public Health, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience working with ELR onboarding and/or maintenance at a state or local health department.
• 1-3 years of work experience with Rhapsody or working to define specifications for Rhapsody developers.
• Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS, SQL or Python.
• Professional experience with Rhapsody, HL7, or FHIR certification is preferred.

Skills

• Knowledge and understanding of HL7 for the exchange, integration, sharing, and retrieval of electronic health information.
• Knowledge of state, and federal laws related to disease reporting in Texas.
• Knowledge of software tools that support online public health data acquisition, entry, abstraction management, analysis, and reporting.
• Knowledge of information security policies and procedures; and of record keeping, including security procedures for handling, protecting, and distributing confidential data.
• Skilled in the use of a computer and applicable software, in analyzing problems and devising effective solutions, in conducting data searches, in evaluating and translating large amounts of data, and in critical thinking.
• Skilled in ensuring the utilization of interoperable data standards for storage and transmission, and being able to find the relevant standards specifications as needed.
• Skilled in composing and managing systems development teams in a manner that demonstrates recognition of the appropriate roles and domains for computer scientists, epidemiologists, programmers and other information technology specialists in information systems development.
• Effective communication skills.
• Project management skills.
• Ability to read third-party software technical documentation and apply that documentation to effectively configure and design add-on solutions to third-party software.
• Ability to create processes to maintain electronic documents, including documented versions, dissemination methods, and relevant standards specifications.
• Ability to develop new or enhance existing databases to support epidemiologic investigations, surveillance, etc.

Qualifications

• N/A

Benefits

DSHS offers insurance coverage and other benefits available through the State of Texas Group Benefits Plan administered by the Employee Retirement System of Texas (ERS).

Pay

$6,377.50 - $8,581.66 per month

Schedule

Day Shift