Senior Specialized IT Consultant - Remote / Telecommute

Cynet Systems Inc; Toronto; Remote; CAD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the healthcare sector is seeking professionals to enhance the implementation of terminology standards for clinical data. The role demands proficiency in engaging multiple stakeholders and ensuring the operationalization of effective terminology strategies, providing a critical function to the healthcare data management system.

Qualifications

• Expertise in clinical data, terminology, and technical standards like SNOMED CT or LOINC.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Experience in implementing interoperable digital health solutions.

Responsibilities

• Map and improve processes while engaging partners across various sectors.
• Develop and implement strategies for terminology standards and manage change effectively.
• Support the implementation of terminology technology to enhance data management.

Skills

Terminology standards assessment

Research and analysis

Communication and collaboration

Partner engagement and management

Tools

Microsoft Products

Microsoft Office 365

Terminology asset management tools

Job description

Job Description:

Responsibilities:

• Process mapping, process improvement and operationalizing workflows.
• Develop and implement strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies.
• Conduct requirements gathering, develop documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conduct 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.

Deliverables:

• This includes terminology standards selection and approval, maintenance and promotion.
• Effective change management and release management will ensure these standards are up to date, relevant and maximize benefit to the sector.
• Implement Terminology Value, Literacy & Adoption strategies: Evolve and operationalize understanding the value of terminology standards by clinicians, vendors, health regulators and patients will improve adoption of standardized terminology.
• Providing a focal point for terminology standards for education materials, source of truth and forms for terminology change requests support awareness of standards and their value.
• Support implementation of Terminology Technology: Terminology Tooling provides the ability to improve efficiency and accuracy in the use of standardized terminology through lookup, search, map and enhanced cognitive capabilities (e.g. AI).
• This should include reviewing the committee structures and terms of reference, and participate to ensure that terminology standards are seen as an integral part of data management.

Required Skills:

• Terminology standards assessment, selection, development, implementation and maintenance processes including Reference sets/Map sets/Subset development.
• Research and analysis.
• Communication and collaboration.
• Partner engagement and management.

Desired Skills:

• Proficiency with Microsoft Products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools (e.g., Microsoft Office 365).
• 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 Experience / Evaluation Criteria:

• Extensive knowledge and implementation experience with clinical data, terminology and technical standards such as SNOMED CT/SNOMED CT-CA, LOINC/pCLOCD, ICD-10-CA, CCI, HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR.: 25 Points
• Knowledge and experience of the development and implementation of terminology standards such as LOINC and SNOMED CT/SNOMED CT-CA.: 25 Points
• Experience in developing provincial terminology strategy and implementation plans including engagement with partners to assess and define the proposed model(s).: 10 Points
• Experience in implementing interoperable digital health solutions, including assessing readiness of existing clinical information systems for collection/submission of standards-based clinical information to the EHR.: 10 Points
• Knowledge and strong understanding of jurisdictional electronic health record projects, interoperability services and integration with healthcare initiatives within regional healthcare organizations for clinical data repositories, and other associated healthcare information systems in use within a jurisdiction.: 10 Points
• Knowledge and experience with the following terminology asset management tools is an asset (e.g., Apelon DTS, Term Works, Ontoserver, Shrimp).: 10 Points