FHIR Integration Specialist - REMOTE - Travel required

Summary: The FHIR Integration Specialist is responsible for designing, testing, and implementing electronic interfaces in accordance with HL7 FHIR standards, while providing technical support and documentation for interoperability projects. The role involves strategic planning for agency-level FHIR readiness and maintaining knowledge of public health interoperability standards. The position requires collaboration with various stakeholders and may involve some travel. This is a remote position with a focus on public health informatics and data interoperability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Assist with the design, testing, and implementing of electronic interfaces aligned with HL7 FHIR standards and 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
• 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 interoperability-related meetings, including facilitating interoperability and implementation discussions
• Lead strategic planning work to assess agency-level FHIR readiness including building capacity to adopt public health FHIR solutions
• Assist with EDI Interoperability Governance, Infrastructure, and Architecture enhancement activities
• Maintain understanding of current and emerging public health interoperability standards and help 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 TDH program implementation requirements

Key Skills:

• 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
• 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 preferred
• 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) 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
• 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

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT