Specialized IT Consultant - Senior (Sr. Product Data Conformance & Integration Specialist) 🔥 Top Priority

Project Overview

Ontario Health was established under The Connecting Care Act, 2019 to implement health strategies of the Ministry of Health and manage health service needs across Ontario. This initiative supports data conformance and integration for clinical repositories such as OLIS, DHDR, and new clinical repositories under the Digitizing Provincial Diagnostic (Lab) Network.

Key Responsibilities

• Performs as a Clinical Data Conformance & Integration Specialist supporting data adoption (contribution) and integration projects, working directly with Senior Project Managers and Product Teams.
• Provides oversight and HL7 v2 & HL7 FHIR subject matter expertise on Ontario Health data adoption and integration projects, focused on the expert guidance for the review, conformance testing, validation, and implementation of healthcare organizational patient data to Ontario Health clinical data repositories (e.g., ADT data, lab data, clinical data, etc.).
• Leverages HL7 v2 & FHIR data standards expertise, clinical expertise and HL7 health information exchange standards experience to successfully evaluate and advise external clients and stakeholders’ technical development of their local interfaces, in readiness for contributing to, or consuming data from Ontario Health clinical data repositories or assets.
• Manages simultaneous work packages for data contribution projects, ensuring contributed data from external stakeholders adheres to HL7 v2 and FHIR standards, in alignment with the Ontario Health EHR input specifications and FHIR IG’s.
• Determines readiness of data submission to the EHR product repositories and assets, by conducting expert HL7 v2 & FHIR messaging standards review, evaluation and validation of data compliance, conformance, and readiness for data contribution.
• Acts as a senior specialist with external clients, stakeholders, partners, and data sources through a defined data integration methodology designed to measure data conformance and validation of contributed data to the EHR.
• Works with a medium-high level of autonomy based on direction from Leads and/or Management; as well as delivery against set objectives and support scenarios but proactively actioning and resolving issues with minimal supervision.

Qualifications & Requirements

REQUIRED

• Must be able to work up to 5 days onsite per week in Toronto
• 7+ years of hands-on experience delivering electronic health data integration projects or operations, including healthcare interoperability standards HL7 V2.x (mandatory) and V3
• 5+ years of experience with healthcare sector workflows and source system technologies (HIS, EMR, LIS), including Integration Engines
• 5+ years of applied knowledge of HL7 Health Standard message conformance tooling (Caristix, XMLSpy, 7Edit, Postman) for HL7 v2.x, v3, and FHIR
• Practical experience with FHIR and XML messaging principles
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for conveying conformance testing and validation activities to technical staff, project managers, and clinical SMEs

NICE TO HAVE

• Experience with HL7 FHIR health standard
• Knowledge of Meditech, Cerner, Epic systems
• Detailed knowledge of Pharmacy Management Systems, Lab Information Systems, Hospital Information Systems, Diagnostic Viewers, and Picture Archiving and Communication Systems

EVALUATION CRITERIA

• Experience working on large complex projects, with responsibilities for delivering project tasks and key work packages, combined with stakeholder management and client relationship responsibilities. - 20 points
• Demonstrated data expertise in both project based and operational responsibilities – specifically working with sensitive data. - 10 points
• Demonstrated experience working with Health System technologies (e.g. HIS technologies, LIS, EMR); including Integration Engines or Interface technologies. - 20 points
• In-depth working and applied knowledge of healthcare systems, healthcare integration standards such as HL7 v2 & FHIR, XML messaging principles, techniques and technologies is mandatory - 30 points
• Experience performing HL7 standards-based message conformance testing, as well as applied knowledge of conformance tooling (e.g., Caristix, XMLSpy, 7Edit, etc.). - 20 points

Key Skills & Competencies

HL7 v2.x, HL7 v3, FHIR, XML messaging, Integration Engines, Caristix, XMLSpy, 7Edit, Postman, HIS, EMR, LIS, EHR, OLIS, DHDR, CMRO, Medical Imaging, PCIE, Meditech, Cerner, Epic, Pharmacy Management Systems, Lab Information Systems, Hospital Information Systems, Diagnostic Viewers, PACS