FHIR Protocol Consultant - Interoperability

FHIR Protocol Consultant - Interoperability

THE OPPORTUNITY

Total Systems Solutions Consulting Inc. https://totalsystems.ca is seeking a FHIR Protocol Consultant - Interoperability to work for our public sector client at the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) in the Province of British Columbia. You must be available 100% to work remote full-time 37.5/40 hours per week with availability Monday to Friday from 8:00am to 5:00pm in the Pacific Time Zone.

The consultant is expected to start date is ASAP and the contract length is 2 years.

Project Context

Digital Health Innovation (DHI) delivers provincial digital health strategies and business transformations by relentlessly focusing on the end user and the end-to-end health services journey for everyone in British Columbia. We concentrate on the design and delivery of digital health tools and platforms to support the ongoing evolution of a connected health system and digitally enabled health care.

DHI is part of the Provincial Digital Health & Information Services (PDHIS) portfolio that was formed in July 2022 to enable our BC health system more effectively digitally and virtually. PDHIS brings together many organizational units from different parts of PHSA into one portfolio and includes a close partnership with the Ministry of Health to deliver on the BC Digital Health Strategy.

The Interoperability program, as part of the Digital Health Innovation Services, provides technical design and implementation services which connect healthcare from all sources in the province and make that data available to healthcare providers in both Primary and Acute settings.

Service Required

PHSA is looking for a full-time FHIR Business Consultant who has over five years’ experience in healthcare. The consultant will be a self-directed individual who is part of a high-performing agile team supporting the design and build of a connected health system in BC.

This role requires a highly organized and thorough individual, who is a self-starter and can demonstrate their extensive leading stakeholder engagement, gathering technical requirements, and supporting an agile team overall to meet milestones.

• Gather baseline information and requirements for FHIR-based solutions
• Perform HL7 to FHIR mappings and conversions
• Develop and configure FHIR-based solutions
• Map healthcare data to FHIR resources
• Integrate FHIR APIs into existing healthcare systems
• Design workflows for clinical data sharing.
• Work with FHIR implementation guides and profiling. Familiarity with clinical terminologies (e.g., SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD).
• Ensure adherence to healthcare data standards
• Ensure compliance with interoperability standards and regulations
• Work closely with the project manager, product owner, and change manager
• Liaise with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Organize stakeholder engagement sessions
• Produce clear and concise documentation for stakeholders
• Produce stakeholder mapping and analysis
• Work with the team to write business cases, project documentation, RFPs, executive presentations, and reports
• Conduct multi-layer data analysis independently by linking data from multiple health information data sources

Consultant Qualifications

• A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a degree in clinical informatics, health information science, data science, and/or computer science
• Minimum 5 years' experience working in the healthcare sector preferably in Canada
• Experience working with the Health Authorities in BC
• Certification in FHIR is nice to have
• Experience analyzing processes and understanding the interactions between various healthcare systems
• Knowledge of healthcare workflows and clinical data models.
• In depth working knowledge of FHIR R4, HL7 V2, Restful APIs and FHIR servers (HAPI, smile CDR)
• Proficiency in programming languages commonly used for FHIR solutions, such as Python, Java, or JavaScript
• In depth knowledge developing/maintaining an implementation guide
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement skills, including developing agendas, leading meetings, supporting the group to stay on track, and facilitating collaboration
• Excellent skills gathering technical requirements, processes, and workflows
• Excellent organization and time management skills
• Ability to understand and develop data mapping documents
• Ability to work with operations teams, develop documentation to meet their needs and deliver training

Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 24 months

Pay: Up to $70.00 per hour

Flexible language requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

• Where have you worked as an FHIR business consultant in the healthcare industry?

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (required)

Experience:

• Healthcare Sector: 5 years (required)
• FHIR R4, HL7 V2, Restful APIs and FHIR servers-HAPI, smile CDR: 3 years (required)
• Python, Java, or JavaScript: 3 years (required)

Licence/Certification:

• FHIR Certification (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Application deadline: 2024-12-23