Altera Interface Developer

Robert Half's client in Tuba City, AZ, is seeking an Altera Elink/ ISS Interface Developer. This role will be primarily remote, with onsite as needed. The Interface Developer applies their interfacing knowledge of Healthcare and Clinical Applications to administer, demonstrate, implement, and support various business and clinical critical systems. This position works to closely with vendors, to identify HL7 specifications and provide requirements to connect applications to the electronic health record or other clinical or business-related systems. The candidate should also have a sense of ownership over all interfaces for clinical and business applications and should ensure smoot daily operation of all applications in the position’s purview. The ideal candidate will use extensive analytical and troubleshooting skills to carry out their primary responsibilities. They will have the ability to balance competing demands, urgent matters and confidential material in a professional manner.

NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

Associate of Arts (AA) degree in Information Systems/Technology, Computer Science, or Business Administration

Experience:

• Experience in HL7 and FHIR administration with hands on experience in interface engines.
• Proven experience interfacing with systems including EHR/EMR/LIS/RIS/PACS/HIS.
• Experience with clinical workflows, revenue systems, programming languages, SFTP set up, and TCP/IP, APIs, and Altera Elink/ISS knowledge is a plus.
• Experience with collaborating with vendors to test fixes, enhancements and new implementations while following change control procedures.

Responsibilities:

1. Test, deploy and evaluate appropriate interface solutions and ongoing maintenance needs for sustainable processes. Appropriately configure systems to improve processes, add efficiencies and promote patient safety.
2. Reverse engineer existing healthcare IT interfaces capture relevant requirements and author message or interface specifications with minimal assistance.
3. Become proficient with Healthcare integration standards like HL7 v2.x, v.3.x.
4. Become proficient in department workflow and analyze opportunities to improve.
5. Investigate processes to understand operations. Research, analyze and understand workflows of end users,
6. Identify data validation risks and solutions/strategies.
7. Assist Business and Clinical Analysts with business rule and data integration and requirements gathering.
8. Maintain and document configurations and scripts to ensure proper versioning and control of product upgrades.
9. After performing interface design and deployment work, ensure that the interface is functioning properly and provide tuning and optimizing assistance as required.
10. Resolve integration/mapping issues; methodically approach problems or processes to troubleshoot and resolve; develop application and integrated test scripts; participate in thoroughly testing builds; provide rotational on-call support based upon application needs.
11. Preparation and maintenance of technical documentation.
12. Implementation and configuration of Integration Engine, and configuration of Interfaces, Routes and Communication Points as required.
13. Review architecture or solution design, and provide feedback based on best practices, capabilities and standards-based industry norms.
14. Research technology and interface specifications/design required to help deliver optimal technical solutions that support the business objectives.
15. Understanding of XML, RDBMS technologies (primarily SQL & Oracle) and JavaScript coding.
16. Experience in documenting message specifications, as well as other interface requirements documentation