Interface Analyst- 40hr

Responsible for supporting the design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance of the all real-time and non-real-time Health Level Seven (HL7) interfaces using the Epic Bridges and commercial interface engine toolsets.

• Responsible for the development, mapping, and maintenance of all real-time and batch interfaces between all application software.
• Responsible for defining and implementing interface specifications either alone or in conjunction with application analyst.
• Responsible for developing HL7 code which will efficiently access and transmit data across applications.
• Responsible for supporting and enhancing new and existing interfaces written in current and future standards including HL7, XML, fixed and variable length formats and ODBC.
• Responsible for defining the diagnostic interface strategies.
• Responsible for documenting the system procedures.
• Responsible for the development of flexible departmental training plans as necessary.
• Responsible for the development of trouble shooting reports which will allow for effective management of the interface engine platform.
• Responsible for ensuring data integrity across applications.
• Responsible for ensuring that maintenance releases are properly tested and quality assured prior to production.
• Responsible for ensuring that new installations will integrate with the current application and data technical environment.
• Responsible for maintaining system security and system standards.
• Responsible for ensuring that departmental IT systems are in compliance with regulatory requirements.
   

Education and/or Experience Required:

• Education Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience Required: Three to five years' experience in systems analysis and in programming in either a scripting, procedural or object-oriented language.

Education and/or Experience Preferred:

• Experience Preferred: Experience HL7 messaging standards and experience configuring and troubleshooting HL7 interfaces Epic Bridges Certified preferred.

License and/or Certification Required:

N/A

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Demonstrated ability to use commercial interface development tools.
• Demonstrated ability collaborate with various other resources for ADT, Order, Schedule, Result, RFID, Billing, Medication interfaces/web services.
• Demonstrated ability to write complex joins statements to efficiently access data. 
• Demonstrated ability to use appropriate development tools to author and implement stored procedures for use by report authors and application programmers.
• Demonstrated competency and high level understanding of TCP/IP based networks.
• Ability to work with personnel of varying technical backgrounds and proficiencies.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills and documentation abilities.
• Ability to work well in a team-oriented environment as well as independently.
• Strong, analytical, problem solving and decision-making skills
• Flexible in responding to rapid change and able to multi-task