SAS is looking for a Sr. Associate Technical Consultant to support their healthcare delivery engagements by providing technical consulting for complex projects utilizing healthcare interoperability standards, specifically in Health Information Exchange. The goal is to solve complex technical, data, and analytic problems, deepen customer relationships, and ensure strong business value through pre-sales, consulting, delivery, and operations support.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience supporting clinical data interoperability through use of healthcare industry standards (e.g., HL7, X12, etc.)
- 2+ years of experience developing and maintaining solutions using Intersystems HealthShare products and/or other interoperability software, e.g. Orion, Health Catalyst
- Knowledge of electronic medical record (EMR) systems, interoperability software and standards related to clinical data, with a particular emphasis on inbound data transforms (from HL7 v2 and CCDA) as well as support of HL7 FHIR.
- Ability to be concise, independent and provide defensible decisions in writing.
- Experience with EMR clinical workflows and how data from other systems can be integrated with those workflows.
- Understanding of how HL7v2 (particularly ADT and ORU), X12 Claims, and CCDA data formats map to HL7 FHIR resources.
- Experience creating or implementing FHIR and other HL7 Implementation Guides.
Responsibilities
- Provide healthcare interoperability and clinical data subject matter expertise and hands-on keyboard delivery on support projects that integrate data from electronic medical records and other systems using healthcare industry standards, with a particular emphasis on HL7 v2, CCDA, and HL7 FHIR data exchange.
- Create customer-facing documentation describing best practices for data exchange with the Health Information Exchange, including HL7 v2, CCDA, and HL7 FHIR API interfaces.
- Support efforts to scope and define work effort, resource plans, and time/cost estimates.
- Conduct customer sessions for requirements gathering, data discovery, analysis, reporting and presentation.
- Work with delivery teams to ensure requirements are met.
- Assist delivery teams and customers in all areas of issue resolution.
- Seeks to rectify issues at the team level and escalates critical issues to ensure timely and collaborative issue resolution.
Other
- Build credibility and trusted-advisor relationships with customers, including strategic high-level influencers, policymakers, decision-makers, technical staff, and end-users.
- Work effectively in a cross-functional team environment to support large scale data exchange programs used by thousands of provider organizations in North Carolina.
- Ability to travel as business needs require.
- Work location in Cary, NC strongly preferred; Hybrid work environment available (2 days in office)
- Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States, and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status.
