Integration Analyst - EHR

About the role

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 115,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

Responsibilities

• Manage the entire cycle of interface application development, including analysis, design, specification, implementation, go‐live, and support.
• Build and support integrations between our EHR and other systems using the Corepoint interface engine.
• Work closely with application teams, subject matter experts, and third‐party application experts to determine the business needs for interfaces, document the requirements, and configure the interfaces per the requirements.
• Partner with external interface project teams to collaboratively build new connections.
• Partner with internal networking resources to configure and troubleshoot VPNs with external interface partners.
• Work with internal and external groups to diagnose and resolve interface‐related issues.
• Engage with cross-functional experts, vendors, and other application analysts on interface‐related tasks and activities like build steps, validation, cutover planning, and going live.
• Work alongside the implementation project manager to ensure that high quality results are achieved and deadlines are met.
• Communicate challenges and roadblocks on projects to all of the relevant stakeholders and members of management.
• Provide proactive support by monitoring live interfaces and collaborating with experts to provide permanent resolutions to problems.
• Define the transport method by which source system data will be communicated to target systems.
• Analyze and manipulate external and internal data into an appropriate format for HL7 messaging between systems.
• Troubleshoot the data transport mechanism.
• Interpret the defined scope and defined business requirements for each dataset in the creation of each technical specification.
• Communicate effectively and efficiently with both technical and non-technical audiences in meetings, virtual working sessions, emails, and phone calls.

Requirements

• Strong analytical, technical, and troubleshooting skills.
• Ability to analyze data, problem‐solve, and clearly communicate solutions.
• Ability to understand organizational requirements and their impact on the technical aspects of a solution.
• Ability to work in a complex multi‐communication‐channel environment.
• Ability to track tasks, define next steps, identify owners, and hold people accountable.
• Ability to coordinate activities involving multiple players, including vendors, subject matter experts, interface engine developers, and end users, to design, configure, and test interfaces.
• Ability to parse HL7 and XML.
• Ability to collaborate cross-functionality to resolve complex issues.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to interact with all levels of internal and external audiences.
• Ability to balance critical thinking and attention to detail.

Qualifications

The minimum qualifications for this role include a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Physics, Computer Sciences, Math, Information Systems, Statistics, or related field; or High School Degree/General Education Diploma and 4 years of relevant experience in lieu of Bachelor’s degree. 3+ years of IT experience supporting system integrations is also required. Authorization to work in the United States without sponsorship is necessary.

Preferred qualifications include Epic Bridges certification and 3+ years of experience with the Corepoint interface engine or a similar system.

Pay

The base pay for this position is $61,300.00 – $122,700.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.