Details
- Department: Data Delivery and Governance
- Schedule: Full Time Monday - Friday 8-5pm CT
- Location: Remote
Benefits
Paid time off (PTO)
Various health insurance options & wellness plans
Retirement benefits including employer match plans
Long-term & short-term disability
Employee assistance programs (EAP)
Parental leave & adoption assistance
Tuition reimbursement
Ways to give back to your community
Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance and salary range at the time of the offer.
Responsibilities
Job Summary:
- Works with stakeholders to discover, clarify, and document current and future data needs
- Builds and conducts testing plan to ensure clinically valid data is available to the business
- Performs mapping of clinical data to a normalized data model
- Determines approaches to interoperability of clinical data, including mapping of clinical content to data standards to support use case requirements
- Serves as a subject matter expert on clinical data quality and availability
- Builds data concepts to support clinical use cases
- Serves as a key resource for an assigned customer area to understand and explain business and technical issues and to provide viable technology solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Act as a quality consultant and subject matter expert, performing testing and validation of the mapping of data elements to standards
- Tests clinical content to ensure the appropriate data modeling, vocabulary, terminology and code-set standard for representing and harmonizing clinical data
- Collaborates with technical resources to perform root cause analysis and complete remediation of data quality issues
- Works with customers to clarify and plan for their current and future technology needs. Determines and maps existing business processes/functions and recommends changes required to fit a tightly integrated system.
- Designs and implements projects requiring systems integration, small teams and multiple technical platforms.
- Conducts Return on Investment (ROI) and other financial analysis to support project funding/prioritization.
- Collaborates on driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals.
- Coordinates with functional team to assure consistency and optimization of overall work product
- Assumes a proactive role in driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals to deliver value.
- Maintains current knowledge of industry and business process trends and is able to apply that knowledge to existing business processes.
- Provides subject-matter expertise of Health Ministry processes, policies and requirements in support of functional area process design, testing and implementation
- Identifies opportunities for process improvement and makes recommendations that lead to improvements
- Monitors task assignments to ensure they are performed on schedule, within intended scope and to a defined level of quality.
- Escalates process and project issues that cannot be resolved
Experience:
- Experience with healthcare/clinical terminologies and code-sets that comprise measure value sets including SNOMED CT™, LOINC, ICD9-10, CPT4/HCPCS, RxNorm, CVX and other code systems.
- Must have a working knowledge of relational databases/database structures, SQL experience desired
- Must have a strong understanding of data collected and used in electronic medical records, and experience navigating EMRs.
- Knowledge and experience with ambulatory and acute clinical workflows and clinical information systems.
- Experience with detailed policies and related data/exchange standards including the ONC Interoperability Advisory Standard, U.S. Core Data for Interoperability initiative, ONC Certification Rules
- Experience with using/implementing HL7 standards and processes including Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resource (FHIR)
- Bachelor or Masters degree in related health field, e.g. public health, nursing, epidemiology, informatics or bioinformatics.
- Complexity of work: Within the scope of job, requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment and the ability to work with minimal supervision. Must be able to work in a stressful environment.
- 3 years of experience preferred
- High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate’s degree, or Bachelor’s degree preferred
Requirements
Education:
- High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.
Additional Preferences
LI-Remote
Why Join Our Team
When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 134,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.
Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
Ascension will provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all associates and applicants for employment regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, gender, sexual orientation, gender identification or expression, age, disability, marital status, amnesty, genetic information, carrier status or any other legally protected status or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
For further information, view the EEO Know Your Rights (English) poster or EEO Know Your Rights (Spanish) poster.
As a military friendly organization, Ascension promotes career flexibility and offers many benefits to help support the well-being of our military families, spouses, veterans and reservists. Our associates are empowered to apply their military experience and unique perspective to their civilian career with Ascension.
Pay Non-Discrimination Notice
Please note that Ascension will make an offer of employment only to individuals who have applied for a position using our official application. Be on alert for possible fraudulent offers of employment. Ascension will not solicit money or banking information from applicants.
E-Verify Statement
This employer participates in the Electronic Employment Verification Program. Please click the E-Verify link below for more information.
E-Verify