RQ00415 - Specialized IT Consultant - Senior

Must haves:

• Extensive 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. 
  
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of pan-Canadian digital health standards and tooling. 
  
• Hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR tooling including but not limited to Simplifier, HL7 Validator, Forge or FHIR Shorthand.
  
• Hands-on experience with JSON and XML.
  
• 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 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.
  
• Develop and document HL7 FHIR artifacts and supporting documentation.
  
• Validate, troubleshoot, and problem solve the HL7 FHIR artifacts.
  

Desired Skills:

• Hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR Structured Data Capture (SDC).
  
• 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.  
  
• 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
  

Evaluation Criteria:  

• Knowledge and experience designing and implementing HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard by demonstrating experience and processes for conducting detailed standards research, gap analysis and recommendations. 20 Points
  
• Knowledge and experience of the development and implementation of HL7 FHIR and terminology standards including use in electronic forms, referrals and other solutions that reduce the use of paper faxing. 25 Points
  
• Knowledge and experience of HL7 FHIR tooling including but not limited to Simplifier, HL7 Validator, Forge or FHIR Shorthand. 15 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 Electronic Health Record (EHR) and consider effective workflow. 15 Points
  
• Knowledge and understanding of the standards lifecycle and the Digital Health standards landscape (Canadian/pan-Canadian, and international standards), and Digital Health initiatives in other jurisdictions (local, regional, provincial) is an asset. 15 Points
  
• Knowledge and strong understanding of jurisdictional Electronic Health Record (EHR) 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
  

Total evaluation criteria: 100 Points

Deliverables

Deliverables include but not limited to:

• The purpose of this request is to acquire resources with expertise in FHIR standards and applicable Terminology standards who will work with others in support of the Digital Health Standards (DHS) Program to deliver standards components of Patients before Paperwork project in the following capacity and other relevant deliverables as required:
  
• Confirm HL7 FHIR requirements related to the different streams of work in the Patients before Paperwork project in the context of collect once and use many for direct care and subsequent data use as identified in the OH data and analytics strategy and OH data and analytics operating model areas of focus.  
  
• Provide support related to the following 3 streams of work in the Pb4P project:   
  
• Referrals/Consults/Central Intake
  
• Provincial Health Service Directory (PHSD)
  
• Forms (eForms) 
  
• Work collaboratively with the Digital Health Standards Program on the following deliverables related to standards: 
  
• Specification Development and Maintenance   
  
• Standards Orientation 
  
• Walkthrough of Specifications 
  
• Testing Support
  
• Consultation and collaboration with other partners (within and external to Ontario Health) 
  

Must Haves:

• Extensive 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. 
  
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of pan-Canadian digital health standards and tooling. 
  
• Hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR tooling including but not limited to Simplifier, HL7 Validator, Forge or FHIR Shorthand.
  
• Hands-on experience implementing HL7 FHIR standards and solutions.