Overview
Skills
Job Details
Role: HL7/FHIR Programmer Developer
Duration: 12 months
Location: Remote
Shift: 7.5 hrs per day
FHIR Interoperability Specialist
Key Job Responsibilities
Interface Implementation:
- Assist with the design, testing, and implementing of electronic interfaces aligned with HL7 FHIR standards and TDH public health program requirements
- Apply informatics principles to ensure data transport and interoperability using HL7 FHIR standards
- Support HL7 FHIR interoperability projects, including HL7 Helios FHIR Accelerator focus areas
Technical Support and Documentation:
- Provide HL7 FHIR subject matter technical expertise consultation and hands-on technical guidance for interoperability projects, assisting with design and data flow of public health interfaces
- Develop and maintain documentation for FHIR interface workflows, quality assurance processes, and troubleshooting guides
- Actively participate and provide technical expertise and recommendations during client interoperability-related meetings, including facilitating interoperability and implementation discussions
Strategy and Planning:
- Lead strategic planning work to assess agency-level FHIR readiness including building capacity to adopt public health FHIR solutions
- Assist with client EDI Interoperability Governance, Infrastructure, and Architecture enhancement activities
Interoperability Standards:
- Maintain understanding of current and emerging public health interoperability standards and help TDH understand implications of current and future usage
- Participate in public health standards development activities, specifically those public health standards and specifications determined important to helping meet the needs of client program implementation requirements
Education and Qualifications:
Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor s degree in public health informatics, epidemiology, computer science, computer information science, or related information technology field with 5 years of relevant HL7 FHIR experience
Preferred Qualifications:
PhD or Master s degree in public health informatics, epidemiology, computer science, computer information science, or related information technology field with 2 years of relevant HL7 FHIR experience
FHIR implementation experience and FHIR interface work with public health or clinical information systems
Familiarity with HL7 FHIR implementation guides
Familiarity with electronic data interchange (EDI) EDI engines such as Rhapsody
Experience providing technical training on FHIR interoperability standards
Experience aligning technical workflows and data initiatives with state and federal public health priorities and FHIR interoperability standards
Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
Strong organizational and multi-tasking skills and attention to detail required
Ability to work with minimal supervision, both independently and as an effective member of a cross-agency team
Ability to work under strict deadlines and time constraints, and to establish and manage competing priorities
Detail-oriented, with the ability to critically analyze and solve systems-level problems
Strong oral and written communication skills to collaborate with internal and external stakeholders