Technical Specialist- Mid Level

Technical Specialist- Mid Level

The NC Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), in collaboration with its partners, seeks the expertise of Electronic Reporting Interoperability Systems Specialists with HL7 and Rhapsody skills. These specialists will assist in onboarding additional facilities for electronic case reporting for COVID-19 and debug problems found during daily reconciliation. They will also build support for automatic processing of new data within the electronic case reports and potential information from other systems.

The positions work with hospital personnel, NC DPH communicable disease epidemiologists, and NC DPH IT application specialists to coordinate and create schedules and application interfaces to exchange patient/disease data utilizing various formats including HL7 V2 and V3 specifications as well as structured files. Position ensures standard exchange protocols (HL7), standard vocabulary, etc. are utilized for moving COVID-19 health information between independent medical and public health applications, in near real time. Positions ensure that information exchange processes accurately report health information data and maintain privacy and security of data under applicable data security and confidentiality standards. Positions will develop and apply standards-based transforms and/or system application code to support local and national exchange of health information. Positions will configure operational platforms to facilitate information exchange, specifically Orion Rhapsody (with JavaScript) that is used for NC DHHS's existing electronic laboratory reporting (ELR).

Positions will conduct quality control processes that compare electronic records with existing paper records to ensure complete, accurate and timely reporting.