Must haves:

• 5+ years' knowledge and understanding of digital health standards including but not limited to HL7 FHIR, clinical terminologies (e.g., SNOMED-CT, LOINC) and their application. 
• Healthcare experience within Canada in acute care, primary care and/or community care settings.  
• 5+ years' knowledge and understanding of pan-Canadian digital health standards and tooling.  
• 5+ years' hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR tooling including but not limited to Simplifier, HL7 Validator, and Forge.  
• 5+ years' hands-on experience with JSON and XML.  
• Hands-on experience with interoperability standards gap analysis, environmental scan and developing HL7 FHIR implementation guides. 
• Hands-on experience implementing HL7 FHIR standards and solutions.  
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, and strong partner engagement skills.  
• Time management skills, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects.  

Responsibilities: 

• Conduct requirements gathering, develops documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducts partner engagement.  
• Work with different partners and subject matter experts from different backgrounds (clinical, business, and technical). 
• Interact with the business partners and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements. 
• Develop and document HL7 FHIR artifacts and supporting documentation. 
• Validate, troubleshoot, and problem solve the HL7 FHIR artifacts. 

Desired Skills: 

• Knowledge and experience with the existing Health Report Manager (HRM) solution in Ontario. 
• Knowledge and experience with structured clinical documents. 
• Knowledge and experience with HL7 FHIR subscriptions. 
• Familiarity with Microsoft Products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools (e.g., Microsoft Office 365). 
• Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario. 
• Experience working with Ontario Health and/or legacy eHealth Ontario. 
• Ability to readily identify, assess and mitigate implementation and adoption issues. 
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills. 
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines. 

 

Required Skills: 

• FHIR standards assessment, selection, development, and maintenance processes  
• Research and analysis  
• Communication and collaboration    
• Partner engagement and management 

Deliverables

1. Perform requirement elicitation, validation, and documentation, including reviewing and analyzing existing relevant specifications to inform the requirements for the new FHIR implementation guide. 
2. Consult and collaborate with partners to develop and/or update Standards Implementation Guide contents using Simplifier and Forge: 
   1. Business narratives (e.g. Use Cases, Business Models and Rules, etc.) 
   2. Technical and FHIR artifacts 
   3. Terminology artifacts 
3. Validate Standards Implementation Guide: 
   1. Validate FHIR Artifacts using HL7 Validator or other validator as designated by OH DHS 
   2. Validate technical and FHIR artifacts with partners (e.g. Architecture, Clinical, Privacy, Analytics, DHS, etc.) 
   3. Collaborate with partners to troubleshoot validation issues 
4. Apply iterative approach to conduct regular review sessions to demonstrate the work in progress with DHS and other teams as appropriate, receive feedback and make timely updates to the deliverables accordingly.  
5. Develop digital health standards assessments (i.e. Conceptual, Logical, Physical) to support Project Delivery Committee and other governance structures. 
6. Present digital health standards assessments to DHS. 
7. Participate in collaboration with DHS team at partners meetings and workshops. 
8. Develop and present weekly report of deliverables, time, and status updates.  
9. Provide knowledge transfer documents and conduct knowledge transfer sessions for all project deliverables with assigned Ontario Health subject matter experts. 
10. Follow Ontario Health and DHS guidelines for documentation, templates, and data storage and organization. 
11. Complete deliverables in adherence to Ontario Health guidelines for all communication, email, messaging, etc.