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The Principle Interface Developer is responsible for requirements analysis, testing, implementation, documentation, maintenance, and overall support for health information interfaces for Vanderbilt's Clinical systems. The Principle Interface Developer works closely with ancillary product owners, vendors, and technical staff to design, build, test, install, and monitor Intersystems interfaces between VUMC’s eStar (Epic) and internally & externally interfaced systems. (Note: This role can be a 100% REMOTE position)

• Provide superior customer service to internal and external customers
• Lead projects and report on status as requested
• Analyze complex data sets (HL7 2.x, XML messaging formats such as C-CDA)
• Interact with users and department representatives to design detailed message flows & integration points
• Collaborate with Business Analysis resources to create detailed specifications for health information interfaces
• Build & Configure Intersystems HealthConnect interfaces
• Collaborate with Quality Assurance resources to test interface changes or new interfaces prior to promotion to production
• Engage with local technical resources and vendors to resolve connectivity, mapping, or data processing errors
• Provide on-call and after-hours support for Intersystems interfaces

• 10 years of healthcare integration experience
• Current training and experience in Intersystems integration tools at scale
• 5 to 10 years of development experience preferred
• Experience working in an Epic environment and experience with Cerner Lab preferred
• Expert knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards, especially HL7 2.x
• Expert knowledge of communications protocols (e.g. TCP/IP, FTP, SFTP)
• Ability to take full ownership of assigned tasks and work independently to deliver quality results on-time
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, in addition to superior time management skills, are essential
• Additional experience with commercial healthcare integration engines and tools such as CorePoint, Rhapsody, Mirth, or Cloverleaf preferred
• Familiarity with healthcare semantic standards (e.g. LOINC, SNOMED, etc.) preferred
• Experience with FHIR preferred

This is a principal level position requiring current skill sets and the ability to be immediately productive in a complex and fast-pace environment

About the Department:

Health IT

HealthIT provides the best health information technology tools that support Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s mission of:

• Delivering distinctively personalized care
• Improving the health care of individuals and communities regionally, nationally and internationally
• Providing transformative learning programs
• Supporting compelling discoveries

Our tools, which form the digital arteries of VUMC, are either developed in-house by our innovative product teams or selected from the most cutting-edge solutions available in today’s ever-changing marketplace. Our 500 colleagues provide ongoing support over each product’s entire lifespan, ensuring that the tools are meeting the evolving needs of the Medical Center’s 24,000 colleagues.

Our solutions are driven by the incredible work and research of our colleagues throughout Vanderbilt and supported through a close partnership with VUMC Information Technology (VUMC IT). The strong collaboration among our teams means that VUMC can respond to clinical and operational issues with agility and innovation. Together, we ensure VUMC remains a leader in its pioneering use of healthcare information technology.

Underscoring our entire department are our core values of accountability, transparency and execution, delivered with a strong Partner Promise.

Position Shift: Days

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity — of culture, thinking, learning and leading — is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

VUMC Recent Accomplishments

Because we are committed to providing the best in patient care, education and research, we are proud of our recent accomplishments:

• US News & World Report: #1 Adult Hospital in Tennessee and metropolitan Nashville, named to the Best Hospitals Honor Roll of the top 20 adult hospitals, 10 nationally ranked adult specialty programs, with 3 specialties rated in the top 10 nationally, Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt named as one of the Best Children’s Hospital in the nation, with 10 out of 10 pediatric specialties nationally ranked.
• Healthcare’s Most Wired: Among the nation’s 100 “most-wired” hospitals and health systems for its efforts in innovative medical technology.
• Becker’s Hospital Review: named as one of the “100 Great Hospitals in America”, in the roster of 100 Hospitals and Health Systems with Great Oncology Programs and to its list of the 100 Hospitals with Great Heart Programs.
• The Leapfrog Group: One of only 10 children’s hospitals in the to be named at Leapfrog Top Hospital.
• American Association for the Advancement of Science: The School of Medicine has 112 elected fellows
• Magnet Recognition Program: Received our third consecutive Magnet designations.
• National Academy of Medicine: 22 members, elected by their peers in recognition of outstanding achievement
• Human Rights Campaign Healthcare Equality Index: 6th year in a row that Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a Leader in LGBTQ Healthcare Equality.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5 years relevant experience

• Additional Qualification Information:
  • Bachelor's Degree (Required)
  • Expertise with Epic Bridges highly desired.
  • Experience with an Interface Engine Ensemble highly desired.
  • Experience in other interoperability standards including FHIR, CCDA, and xml highly desiredHL7 expertise, specifically ADT, ORM, SIU, and MDM messages

• Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:
  • Light Work category requiring exertion up to 20 lbs. of force occasionally and uses negligible amounts of force to move objects.

• Movement
  • Occasional :Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.
  • Occasional :Walking: Moving about on foot.
  • Occasional :Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another
  • Occasional :Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.
  • Occasional :Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles
  • Occasional :Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.
  • Frequent :Sitting: Remaining in seated position
  • Frequent :Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.
  • Frequent :Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.
  • Frequent :Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.

• Sensory
  • Continuous: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.
  • Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information
  • Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.
  • Continuous: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.
  
  

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