SUMMARY:

• A seasoned Data/Interoperability Architect wif over 20 years of Healthcare IT experience in Healthcare Integration. Proficient in integrating Healthcare Information Exchanges, EHRs, and Ancillary systems, particularly Radiology & Cardiology PACS, CIS, LIS & RIS and other Laboratory, bedside, and Imaging Modalities. Extremely detail oriented, wif unmatched customer service and interpersonal skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Interoperability Architect / Senior Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Spearhead efforts to implement a SaaS solution for Payors seeking to establish compliance wif CMS’ Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (CMS - 9115-F). Led a team of approximately 40 individuals to implement a solution to address teh US Government's CMS’ Interoperability and Patient Access final rule (CMS-9115-F). dis implementation required converting datasets from a Payor's 3 lines of business to FHIR profiles, specifically US Core Profiles, CARIN Blue Button Profiles and ARGONAUT (Provider Directory).
• Collaborate wif Business Analysts to identify, define, and revise (as needed) all requirements for teh project. Worked wif teh SaaS Product team to implement teh SaaS based FHIR Repository wifin all environments, tan test and confirm all teh functionality defined wifin teh FHIR Capability Statement are operational. Worked wif Product team to set up OAUTH/OPENID for application registration, member and Authorized Personal Representative consent autantication, and MDM for member matching. Work closely wif System Integrations team to map teh client's Golden Copy Source data from 3 lines of businesses to their corresponding FHIR resources/profiles, as depicted by teh relevant Implementation Guides; work closely wif QA teams as well as client stakeholders to ensure that SaaS based FHIR Repository, and all corresponding APIs were executing as required; working through all CARIN BB, US Core, and Argonaut test cases, confirming full functionality and performance for all relevant APIs.
• Build, manage, and organize appropriate project plans for any assigned projects
• Develop, maintain, and revise all project materials.
• Track progress of projects and ensure all milestones and timelines are met, quickly identifying and escalating any risks to meeting these milestones and timelines.
• Identify, escalate, and mitigate project risks and issues, communicating project status, and negotiate changes in project scope, resources, or timeline to ensure that teh project sponsor and teh partner or member are satisfied wif project results
• Identify relevant stakeholders and build communication strategies to ensure project deliverables are on time, wifin budget, and meet desired outcome metrics.
• Collaborate and negotiate wif project sponsors and other stakeholders on project management strategy, timeframes, and specific outcomes to be achieved
• Conduct internal and client facing daily stand up meetings.
• Assist Interoperability Teams wif architectural support.

Confidential

Integrations Developer / Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work wif teh OCME, NYC Department of Health, Healthix, NYCIG, & BHIX Stakeholders to gather and define all requirements.
• Design, implement, and test a set of APIs that enable OCME’s in-house application to query teh NYC RHIOs Patient Search SOAP Web Service and REST API in order to obtain real time patient admission data from all NYC hospitals.
• Work wif OCME IT to build, and test a PatientSearch Database, configure all ODBC bindings, and SSIS integrations between UVIS (custom internal app) and teh PatientSearch Database.
• Develop Mirth Web Service Senders, HTTP Senders, Database Readers, Database Writers.
• Used Javascript to parse and manipulate (modify, translate, trim, etc) inbound data streams as well as configure pre and post-processors in Mirth.
• Create As Built Technical Documentations, UML Diagrams, Dataflow Charts as needed.
• Assist QA Team on developing testing plans, creating scripts and steps to ensure a fully functional workflow and dataflow, while identifying risks and exception handling requirements.
• Use SOAPUI and Postman to test PatientSearch APIs.

Confidential

Senior Intersystems Developer /Data Architect

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded efforts to design and develop an Intersystems IRIS For Health FHIR Resource Repository, allowing internal VA applications to access, query and register various VA VX130 Veteran data sets (including but not limited to Patient, Encounters, Appointments, Allergies, & Medications, Claims data sets).
• Build FHIR Productions that are capable of facilitating teh conversion between teh VA’s VX130 Dataset to SDA Containers, tan to FHIR v3, CDA, CCDA, & HL7 v2.x.
• Used Cache Object Script, DTLs, and XSLT Transforms wifin BPLs to convert CDA & CCDA to Intersystems proprietary SDA format, tan convert to FHIR.
• Work wif Enterprise Architect to make sure that all designs and supportive diagrams are all in compliance wif teh overall system architecture.
• Worked wif Data Analysts, and Data Warehouse DB Admins to identify teh necessary tables needed to compile SDA Containers which would in turn be used to produce FHIR Resources
• Optimize SQL queries to reduce cost/latency, speeding up response time when querying result sets, reducing overall response time to teh requesting client.
• Create UML diagrams (Class, Object, and Use Case Diagrams) and technical documentations as needed.
• Research, develop, & test custom solutions for a variety of applications healthcare customers, from new solutions to mature, large scale distributed deployments. Work on POCs and cutting-edge features before they’re integrated into teh product.
• Influence product decisions, features and APIs based on real-world usage experience.
• Develop Ensemble productions that integrate HealthShare Referral Management (HSRM) wif VISTA CPRS, and many other VA enterprise systems.
• Build X12 integration wif AET, teh VA's Authorization Eligibility Tool (AET) allowing HSRM teh ability to consume and reply to x12 EDI 278 pre authorization messages.
• Configure File, HTTPS, and Email Adapters & message handlers needed to facilitate communications between several VA Enterprise systems (CDW, Informatica, Snowflake, VirtruPro, Vista, Cache, ECAMS).
• Built custom SQL queries to assist SCRUM teams on reporting and analytics efforts.
• Run SQL queries to determine table contents as needed.
• Develop, test & update SEOC Rest APIs, writing code to extract payload that are used to extract SEOC payload and ingest that data into HSRM.
• Train all new developers on HSRM, HMF (Healthshare Management Framework), VA Network Infrastructure, internal AGILE/SCRUM methodologies, rules and concepts.
• Deploy & test SSL/TLS Mutual Auth FIPS 140-2 compliant integrations.
• Assist developers wif deploying code, code peer review, debugging & troubleshooting methods, classes, configuring business rules and DTL in cache object script.
• Assist other teammates in teh evaluation of future technical and business needs.
• Help developers resolve Eclipse/Atelier IDE issues and errors.
• Work wif security and architecture team to develop secure, fast, scalable integrations wif teh VA's enterprise applications.
• Work wif Data Warehouses (CDW, Informatica, & Snowflake) to verify that all backed up table's field attributes match up seamlessly wif teh source data from HSRM. Reporting any deviations from source data back to Intersystems, CDW/Informatica/Snowflake, and internal business staff.
• Conduct Gap analysis/mapping between EDI and RFS (Request for Service) forms.
• Help business analyst and developer team to create EDI DDE Compliance Rule documentation, standardizing all field names on all forms & GUIs).
• Assist QA team wif drafting out test scripts for maintenance release, ad-hoc, & regression and functional testing efforts.
• Assist wif Intersystems HSRM maintenance releases and adhoc updates.
• Work wif Scrum leaders to make sure all Rational Stories and relevant tasks remain up to date wif teh latest information, burning down hours, and attaching any relevant artifacts to teh tasks as needed.

Confidential

Integration Developer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded implementation of Corepoint Vr. 7 wif A2 (High Availability) in teh AWS Cloud.
• Responsible for interface development (specifications and data flow diagrams), mapping, data conversion, testing anddocumentation of interface specifications.
• Use Confluence, Sharepoint & Visio to create architectural designs, workflow analysis flow charts, process, policy, procedure, policy, best practice documentations & how-to instructional manuals.
• Work wif clients and Sema4 business analysts to conduct workflow analysis and obtain other relevant information from clients.
• Formalize business requirements into functional interface specifications.
• Participates in teh development of integration and data conversion processes for each implementation.
• Create REST/Soap based web services to allow connectivity between Medgis Cloud LIS (on Google Cloud Provider) and teh Sema4 Patient Portal.
• Demonstrate proficiency of systems/interfaces and provides guidance to clients to aid in analyzing issues and development of solutions.
• Work in an agile, object-oriented, team environment wif version control, change management and continuous improvement protocols.
• Interact and manage multiple EHR Partners and Clinical Integration customers to problem solve on a real-time basis.
• Utilized AWS VPCs to connect Sema4’s Corepoint Interface Engine to Mount Sinai’s Cloverleaf Engine. Coordinated network connectivity troubleshooting efforts, working wif trading partner and vendor resources to ensure functional TCP and SSL/TLS based connectivity to all client EMRs and Labs (Quest Diagnostic, Bio).
• Leveraged VPC flow logs to analyze network traffic traversing teh Internet and IPsec gateways to troubleshoot VPN and SSL/TLS based connections, adjusting security policies and Access Control Lists as needed.
• Set up and configure EC2 application server templates for DEV, TEST, and PROD environments.
• Used AWS Cloudwatch to monitor server and network metrics.
• Set up Alarms to track EC2 server & VPC resources & utilizations.
• Trained Clinical and QA Analysts on how to search teh HL7 message repository, check interface status and alerts, and stop/start interfaces using Corepoint Monitor.

Confidential

Senior Cardiology/HL7 Systems Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Participated in teh Siemens Envision to Cerner Soarian EHR migration for teh Northwell Cardiology IS Department, conducting a full assessment and analysis of teh Envision EMR’s current state ADT, Order, & Billing interfaces (message type, structure, allowable values, event types & functions) for all Cardiology applications.
• Managed teh integration of Cerner Soarian to all Cardiology Services applications wifin teh DEV, QA, & PROD environments, including but not limited to smoke tests, functional testing, Field by Field testing, Unit and End-to-End testing wif negative and positive scenario cases, Revenue Lifecycle testing, & System Integrated Testing of all ADT, Orders, Results and Charges. Worked wif teh Interface Developers to make sure all interfaces were set up to spec.
• Managing teh entire cycle of interface application development, including analysis, design, specification, implementation, go-live, and support.
• Coordinated activities involving multiple players including vendors, application teams, subject matter experts, and third-party application experts to determine teh business needs for interface per teh requirements and adjust teh environments as needed to allow for successful HL7 communication between teh upstream downstream systems.
• Used various interface engines, including but not limited to Infor Cloverleaf & Siemens Openlink, to archive, analyze, verify and validate inbound and outbound HL7 message structure, type, and relevant patient data.
• Conducted HL7 workflow and dataflow analysis using Siemens Workflow and IDX Imagecast, verification of successful transmission, proper message types and structure, for all Cardiology specific ADTs, Orders, Results and Technical Billing performed wifin teh Radiology Dept (me.e. NM MUGA, Stress Tests, Echo, etc, 12 & 15 lead EKGs, etc).
• Analyzed customer requirements and their impact on teh technical aspects of teh proposed solutions.
• Worked wif teh Integrations team to diagnose and resolve interface-related issues.
• Rolled out Syngo Dynamics, CRW, & PaceArt across 4 of Northwell’s Eastern Suffolk Cardiology Practices.
• Spearheaded teh Enterprise wide SCM 16.3 upgrade testing efforts for Northwell’s Cardiology Services IT department, working closely wif teh SCM QA Leads, Integration and Cardio Services IT management to make sure all ADTS, Orders, and Results posted correctly. Resolving any interface or HL7 message formatting issues that arose during testing.

Confidential

Senior HL7 Interface Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Conduct complete assessment of teh Maimonides' Intersystems Ensemble Production and Test environments, uncovering, and resolving security and system flaws, & performance gaps.
• Performed daily assessment of Intersystems Ensemble's system performance and continuity, conducting database integrity checks, journaling & backups, mirrored DB status, and reviewing all application, console, system monitor, and xDBC logs.
• Assisted clinical analysts on ICD9 to IDC10 post go-live regression testing.
• Participated in teh upgrade of Intersystems Ensemble from v .2.
• Adjust Business Rules, Processes, and Data Transformation Language code, modifying, testing, and troubleshooting HL7 interfaces as needed.
• Full assessment, analysis, administration, & documentation of teh “Source of Truth” Communications Interface, a Maimonides Medical Ctr proprietary Identity Management System used to disseminate employee and physician specific information between several systems, including but not limited to Cactus, Peoplesoft, Avaya, Active Directory, Kronos, AMCOM, etc.
• Troubleshoot SQL SSIS packages, jobs, monitor SQL logs and reports, code, debug and conduct code review of TSQL code. Modify “Source of Truth” database tables as needed.

Confidential

Senior HL7 Interface Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Bidirectional TCP, TLS, and sFTP file-in HL7v2 (ADT, ORU, ORM) HL7v3/HIE SOAP/RESTful (PIX, PIXm, PDQ, CDA, C-CDA, CCD, XACML, ITI-18, ITI-41, ITI-43, ITI-44) & FHIR RESTful interfaces on Intersystems Healthshare and Ensemble systems running on Windows Server 2008 and Linux environments.
• Served as teh subject matter expert for all SHINNY HIE connectivity related issues. Building and supporting VPN and TLS connections between teh Statewide HIE and EMR systems wif specific focus on HL7 v2.x standards & HL7 v3., & FHIR. Lead network debugging and troubleshooting efforts of complex HIE network implementations.
• Troubleshoot IHE and FHIR web services connectivity issues on IIS and Apache web servers ranging from failed TLS connections (403 errors), erroneous url request, failed CRUD attempts, etc.
• Addressed issues wif PIX Actor transactions such as failed ITI-44 transactions, missing notifications that never made it from teh Patient Identity Source (e.g. ADT PIX feeds) to teh Patient Identity Cross- manager service & IBM Initiate eMPI system, failed attempts to patient identification information (ITI-45) across different Patient Identifier Domains due to failing PIX Manager, issues wif eMPI, etc.
• Experience interfacing wif several EMR/EHR vendors and interfaces, including but not limited to Cerner, Epic, Centricity, Mckesson, eCW, MedAllies, & Allscripts.
• Write & debug DTL (Data Transformation Language) code to implement & troubleshoot inbound/outbound message transformations in order to meet client or internal custom messages schema/structure requirements.
• Develop and test HL7v2, HL7v3, and FHIR interfaces written in Cache Object Script, Java,, JavaScript, HTML, & .NET utilizing JSON & XML formats to support a multitude of different IHE profiles /transactions (PIXv3/PIXm, PDQ/PDQm, XDS (ITI-18 for Registry Stored Query, ITI-41 for Provide & Register Document Set-b, ITI-42 for Register Document Set-b, ITI-43 for Retrieve Document Set, ATNA and FHIR APIs used by NY based healthcare institutions looking to connect to teh SHINNY.
• Used Cache Studio, Terminal and VC/m to build, modify, recompile, store classes and provide version control as needed.
• Provide ongoing support for Patient Portal/Clinical Viewer connectivity, autantication, and MPI (Master Patient Index) search issues.
• Conduct ADT > PIX mapping, working wif clients to make sure all relevant patient demographics showed up on teh PIX queries.
• Extended FHIR resources to allow for more detailed patient demographic queries/results.
• Worked wif teh client’s interface engineers to conduct UAT for their ICD-9 to ICD-10 data mapping tables, verifying teh receipt of teh correct ICD-10 codes while making sure that teh results (ORU messages) containing teh ICD-10 codes were posting correctly onto teh RHIO’s Clinical Viewer.
• Spearhead efforts to implement SAMSHA Patient record access control, alerts, & auditing wifin Intersystems Healthshare.
• Configured Intersystems Deepsee Analytics for numerous Healthcare Facilities (over 60).
• Resolve patient consent issues including but not limited to “Break teh Glass”, subscription files (in MDM form), patient consent policies.
• Conduct and coordinate continuous All Staff In-depth on HL7v2, HL7v3, & FHIR connectivity troubleshooting.
• Perform backup and restoration of full and incremental Cache Database and Journal files.
• Worked on teh DIRECT Messaging EMR to HISP & HISP to HISP connectivity project, establishing XDS connections between teh NYeC HISP and multiple HISP connected healthcare facilities (me.E. MedAllies, eCW, etc). Configure XDS Doc Registry
• Provide technical leadership in "go-live” deployment of integrated application systems and troubleshooting and optimizing any functional issues that may arise.
• Work wif customers on all phases of implementing Interfaces that includes analysis, design, programming and validation.
• Function as Tier 3 technical team lead for Integration Engineering team.
• Monitor Integration Team service desk queue for any inbound SEV1 & SEV2 tickets, assigning tickets to appropriate technical or business resources, escalating to other teams (Programming, Server Administration, Project Management) as needed while keeping upper management abreast on all news and discoveries along teh way.
• Developed and maintained technical diagrams and documentation of systems maps, code, integration documentation for data flows, network connectivity, application routing, filtering, data manipulation, problem resolution, root cause analysis and change control integrated services in a complex statewide environment.
• Completed teh successful migration of all Healthix, Interboro, TH INC, STHL, BHIX, & eHNLI VPNs, TLS, HL7v2, HL7v3, & FHIR connections from CSC legacy datacenter to NYeC’s new point of presence at Internap (NYC) and in teh cloud using AWS.
• Assist in overall architecture and infrastructure design for AWS cloud solutions which meet customer needs for scalability, reliability and performance through teh use of AWS services such as EC2, IAM, Route53, VPC, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, & CloudWatch.
• Led continuous deployment of teh datacenter and cloud based servers used to host teh SHINNY platform.
• Helped set up and managed 44 Unix servers wif 99.9% uptime.
• Wrote scripts automating security upgrades and cut vulnerabilities 15%.
• Managed DevOps during teh integration of over 200 Healthcare institutions and practices throughout teh State of NY.
• Perform all standard systems administration tasks, such as: proactive performance tuning, load testing, monitoring and profiling, troubleshooting, backup and recovery, installations, capacity planning, and configurations on an as needed basis as well as applying patches and performing upgrades on both Windows and Linux servers on deployed on both VMware ESX hosts and AWS EC2 Instances, both manually and automated using powershell and python scripts.
• Built several multi-environment Windows 2012 and Linux based VMware ESX hosts for Healthshare 2014 Platform Environment on VMWare virtual environment, wifin multiple domains (dev, stage, & prod) in a single forest. dis included AD, IIS, DNS, and Application servers for environments on both Active and Passive (Disaster Recovery) environments.
• Deploy VMWare Virtual Machines and use Clones, Snapshots, templates.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and capacity planning of vSphere environments.
• Responded to server down alerts in a timely manner and brought them up via HP iLO/ Dell DRAC.
• Proactively identify and perform hardware and software upgrades.
• Set up Clinician and Patient Active Directory user groups, policies and rights, to control, and audit Clinician and Patient Portal user access. Assisted wif User password resets, user creation and deactivation, & user group management.
• Set up & configure shared folder permissions to control user and group access
• Prepare, test and deploy GPOs to multiple domains.
• Ensure Integration Team’s compliance wif all change control processes and procedures, including but not limited to code validation, workflow analysis, Visio diagrams and technical documentation.
• Working on multiple projects concurrently, while monitoring teh status of tasks and escalating issues when appropriate. Communicating, prioritizing, and resolving issues in a timely manner.
• Work wif teh Project management team to create SOWs & refine project plans as needed.
• Provide continual assistance to all NYeC Business Analysts and Project Managers to translate interface requirements into interface and network specifications.
• Deliver post-implementation support for client hospitals, physician offices, and labs.
• Spearheaded teh efforts leading to teh successful connection of teh STHL RHIO to teh SHINNY
• Recommend and revised workflow and process changes that help increase efficiency and effectiveness wifin teh Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Maximize network performance and security by monitoring Network device performance, thorough daily audits of Firewall & IDS (Intrusion Detection System), conducting internal and externally sourced vulnerability testing, troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades.
• Configured and troubleshooted hundreds of Site to Site IPsec VPN & SSL/TLS connections which were used for teh NY State Healthcare Information Exchange’s connectivity to numerous Healthcare facilities.
• Established networking environment by designing system configuration; directing system installation; defining, documenting, and enforcing system policies & standards.
• Installation, administration and maintenance of Intersystems Healthshare and Intersystems Ensemble 2011, 2012 & 2013 Productions at an HIE level.
• Assisted in securing teh entire NYeC network by establishing & enforcing policies; defining & monitoring access.
• Reporting network operational status by gathering, prioritizing information; managing projects.

Confidential

SENIOR PACS SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Lead teh efforts in teh implementation and support of teh following projects, GE Dashboard, LifeImage, Hermes Nuclear Medicine PACS, PACSHealth ACR Dose Monitoring/ACR Triad Server, and GE Viewpoint, GE Centricity CRMA (PACS on IPAD & Iphone) and GE Dashboard.
• Prepared Change Requests Summary and Install Plan Documentation (Pre-Implementations, Implementation, Post-Implementation, and Backout Plan) as required by teh CAB Committee when any changes were requested on a production system. dis also entailed a description of teh Business Justification, Change Description, Downtime and Notification, Impacted Areas, Impacted Technologies, Remote or Local implementation, etc.
• Responsible for teh daily administration and maintenance of GE Centricity RA1000, CA1000 and Philips Xcelera Cardiology PACS, Nuance Commissure Voice Recognition Systems, GE Muse
• Daily assessment of ecosystem functionality and performance.
• Worked closely wif Ancillary team (RIS-IC Analysts) to troubleshoot modality worklist issues, missing reports, missing orders, missing or erroneous exam codes and modifiers.
• Trained Radiology and Cardiology staff on their corresponding workflows and applications
• Worked wif Server Engineering to build Virtualized Server Environments and cloud based storage solutions for several Radiology and Cardiology applications.
• Worked closely wif Desktop Support and Server Engineering to package Cardiology and Radiology applications in order to automate remote installs utilizing SCCM technology.
• Conducted remote and local installations of all Radiology and Cardiology applications.

Confidential

SENIOR PACS/RIS/MDI SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR

Responsibilities:

• Maintain a high level of availability on all mission critical Radiology and Cardiology systems by collaborating wif HUMC IT as well as system vendors to suppress any technical issues impacting teh operation and/or availability of teh PACS & RIS systems.
• Provide 24/7 comprehensive support of all Radiology/Cardiology PACS/HIS/RIS functions including: validation of data, exception handling, daily reporting of cases pending completion, dictation, or final sign-off as well as PACS/RIS remote connectivity issues for Radiologists, Cardiologists and referring physicians.
• Lead teh planning, integration, configuration, implementation and end-user efforts on GE Centricity PACS, and OpenVISTA RIS.
• Performed business analyst functions, assisted on project and resource planning, creating a detailed business analysis, outlining problems, opportunities, solutions and requirements for teh business. Ensure comprehensive understanding amongst all technology partners, contributes to development, facilitates user acceptance testing and manages requirements changes.
• Improve teh SDLC efficiency and effectiveness by implementing AGILE methodology to rapidly deploy and integrate fully functional SaaS and SaMD applications.
• Assisted on teh design, implementation & support of teh Quadramed Enterprise Scheduling, an enterprise wide scheduling module used by teh institution to facilitate patient scheduling by improving efficiency, reducing patient wait time, increasing revenue, & reducing no-shows via call back appointment reminders..
• Spearheaded teh efforts to integrate QES wif Medsphere Openvista RIS & Quadramed Affinity EHR.
• Support, maintenance, and configuration of Quadramed Affinity EHR, including but not limited to user and physician maintenance, charge master and procedure code maintenance, exception log monitoring, interface development.
• Analyzing, interpreting and reporting clinical, financial and operational performance trends from various channels & departments, identifying areas performing outside of predetermined thresholds
• Gathering requirements, compiling, interpreting and reconciling key business clinical, financial, operational and statistical data, and generating a variety of complex and detailed value-added reports for senior-level executives & external clients.
• Migration of teh Radiology ChargeMaster from Quadramed Affinity EHR to Medsphere Openvista EHR
• Worked wif LAB Analyst to conduct a QA of all LAB procedures, LO INC, and ICD9 coding, making sure that all codes were accurate wifin teh HL7 messages. Confirming receipt of all orders in Sunquest and verifying that all completed exams and results triggered teh appropriate LAB results and charges wifin teh Carevue OpenVista EMR. Identifying any exceptions and addressing them as needed.
• Assisted in teh Medical Device Integration (MDI) implementation project, integrating Accelero Connect Middleware wif Openvista via Cloverleaf Interface Engine. Aiding in teh completion and continued management of all device integration project plan deliverables. Participated in teh installation/implementation of medical devices and required provisions such as network, power, mounting. Install, monitor, troubleshoot, document, configures and test hardware, software, and networks (wired and wireless) used for integration of biomed devices wif EMR.
• Attained thorough noledge of biomedical device integration, MDI middleware applications & imaging architecture used for medical device integration including clinical applications and specialized areas such as Radiology, Cardiology, Anesthesiology, & Lab.
• Utilized Accelero Connect MDI middleware to integrate all medical devices (SaMD), including but no limited to Vital Sign monitors, IV, smart infusion pumps, glucometers, EKG & EEG monitors from multiple vendors (including GE Healthcare, Philips, Hospira, Nihon Kohden, Mindray & Welch Allyn) to teh Openvista EMR. When completed, dis implementation aided in teh mitigation of errors made from programming pumps and documenting vitals by eliminating teh need to manually entered device readings into teh OpenVista EMR, and more accurate billing of medicine stop/start times and provide physicians wif accurate, timely results.
• Verify IV medication orders from teh EMR to teh infusion pumps, significantly minimizing teh chance of human errors.
• Leveraged Accelero’s inbound ADT interfaces to support teh MDI’s positive patient identification and location-based patient matching.
• Identify and addresses root cause of issue to effectively restore network communication between biomedical devices and OpenVista EMR
• Participated in weekly & monthly MDI Implementation committee meetings, which consisted of senior management, clinicians, IT, Biomed and vendors.
• Annotates changes to inventory tracking of biomedical devices and proactively recommends process improvements.
• Develop, utilize, and enhance teh service request, change management standards and processes as it relates to device integration.
• Worked wif Security consultants and network engineers to certify teh hospitals WIFI network, addressing weak signal pockets and security voids by setting up data encryption for all inbound and outbound medical device HL7 communications. Work wif Biomed to test WIFI connectivity on all med devices placed on teh hospitals segmented and secured medical device wireless network.
• Understanding of EDI concepts including teh basic structure of teh HL7 standard and how information flows from one system/app to another using teh HL7 format.
• Basic understanding of biomedical device types and their common usage.
• Lead teh implementation of Siemens Syngo Dynamics 9.0 environment on a virtualized VMware vSphere 4 platform.
• Utilized Remote Cardiac IT Administrator to provide proactive monitoring and maintenance of teh Syngo Dynamics environment by reviewing system status events, application and server hardware errors, trends, or issues wif non-archived patient data.
• Conduct daily system checks of Syngo Dynamics Database Service, Archiving Service, License Management, Image Management, Reporting Services and Dynamics Portal Service.
• Configured remote access to Syngo Dynamics via SD Portal Service for Cardiologist and referring physicians as requested.
• Configured and maintained connectivity between Siemens Sequoias and Syngo Dynamics Server.
• Implemented connectivity and set up DICOM configuration for numerous modalities including but not limited to Siemens Konica CR, Philips CT, Siemens Artist and Leonardo Anglo modalities, Ultrasound and Digital Mammography modalities, DynaCAD MRI Breast Imaging systems, and all DICOM Film Printers.
• Worked closely wif Radiology and Cardiology managers to help address any technical discrepancies or workflow variances in order to improve departmental efficiency and effectiveness.
• Perform database administration functions such as repairing/unspecified exams, altering patient demographics, splitting and merging studies
• Assured HIPAA compliance by auditing user access levels, as well as implementing strict user password policies and educating staff on what steps to take to prevent teh unauthorized access of patient information.
• Responsible for maintenance of Radiology Charge Master & Procedure Master, and yearly CPT code modifications.
• Prepared documentation of both Radiology and Cardiology Workflow, PACS and RIS manuals and PACS/RIS How-To instruction manuals for Radiologists and Cardiologists
• Monitored all inbound/outbound HL7 interfaces, Archive Manager, Image Server, Web Server and PACS Broker (GE Centricity Clinical Gateway)
• Performed daily backups of all PACS and RIS databases.
• Modified network configuration parameters on Unix-based GE MRI Modality to allow proper communication to teh HUMC PACS storage servers.
• Co-Lead teh planning, budgeting, installation, implementation, and maintenance of teh organization-wide Picture Archival and Communication System (PACS) and peripheral system components.
• Managed RIS Department, providing comprehensive support of all PACS/RIS functions including validation of data, exception handling, RIS workflow analysis, archiving, auto-routing, pre-fetching, end-user, and other related activities.
• Maintained high availability of all Clinical, Diagnostic, and Technical Workstations, IIS Web, Samba Server, and RIS System.
• Resets locked up services and troubleshoot network connectivity issues on Linux and Windows based workstations.
• Monitored health status and troubleshoot issues on of EMC Centera and Clarion SANs
• Responsible for overseeing daily systems operations, data integrity, modality interfacing, system maintenance and monitoring of teh PACS, RIS and Talkstation Voice Recognition System.
• Monitored HL7 links to/from PACS, RIS and Talkstation via IDX ConnectR Interface Engine
• Anticipate, investigate, identify potential problems and prepare proposals to solve specific operational problems.
• Worked collaboratively wif Medical and Administrative Directors as well as teh Director of IT, radiology staff, vendors, and engineers regarding problems wif PACS, RIS, and Talkstation VRS
• Configured and distributed IDX RIS Scheduled, Completed, Preliminary, Finalized exams and other RIS related reports.
• Utilized Crystal Reports to modify and/or customize RIS reports as needed.
• Assisted in teh deployment and configuration of state of teh art angiography suite for teh Interventional Radiology Department.
• Perform database administration functions such as: repairing fractured studies, editing patient demographics, splitting and merging studies, as well as daily backups via AIT Tapes.
• Monitoring of HL7 interfaces, archive manager, image server, web server and teh PACS broker.
• Organize and direct activities required accomplishing satisfactory uptime levels of RIS, PACS and network infrastructure.
• Design PACS/RIS system support documentation and procedure manuals.