Senior Interoperability Analyst

Position Summary:
The Senior (Sr.) Interoperability Analyst will work with clinicians, admin staff, vendors, and technical resources to define, configure, maintain, and extend the Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) enterprise platform within Rochester Regional Health. The Sr. Interoperability Analyst will develop processes and capabilities to continue to deploy and modify the HIE capability throughout the health system as new information sources, needs, and approaches become available. The Sr. Interoperability Analyst will be expected to actively participate in regional, state, and national healthcare forums/committees; will act as a liaison to the local RHIO and other e-health collaborative initiatives (e.g. NYeC). Position requires deep knowledge of clinical workflows, ability to improve outcomes and efficiency with enhanced clinical data, and ingenuity to optimize information sharing among clinical systems and decision support applications. Must possess the knowledge and ability to assist in the development and execution of strategic and tactical interoperability plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define, configure, maintain, and extend the HIE and interoperability infrastructure to meet the on-going demands of Rochester Regional Health to share patient information in both longitudinal and discrete formats among internal customers, partners, affiliates, and external agencies/entities. Meet with departmental management/staff on a regular basis to understand and provide advice on systems integration and operational issues related to interoperability.
• Analyze interoperability requirements and develop technical specifications. Analyze clinical workflows and identify opportunities to optimize information sharing among clinical systems, the HIE platform, and decision support systems.
• Consult/manage vendor relationships and ensure deliverables meet interoperability requirements and are consist with established best-practices, standards, and processes. Consult with systems analysts, programmers/developers, network/infrastructure architects and other information technology resources to ensure specifications include technical considerations from other internal disciplines.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems (MIS), Informatics, or related field required.
• At least five years experience in project related work, systems analysis and a systems development.
• Experience on large system enhancements and conversions, preferably in healthcare.
• Requires a complete understanding of a project life cycle methodology.
• Requires familiarity with application development support software and hardware platforms.

EDUCATION:

• BS (Required)

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: L - Light Work - Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly; requires occasional walking, standing or squatting.

PAY RANGE: $80,000.00 - $115,000.00