SUMMARY:

• A self - starter engineer with ability to work in a fast-paced environment with experience handling multiple priorities and ability to work extended hours.
• Expert in a wide range of customer relations services, collecting and analyzing data.
• Excellent verbal, interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experienced HL7 analyst using interface engines such as Mirth, Cloverleaf and WMB
• Expertise in requirement gathering, analysis, design of functional and specification documents to meet the business need.
• Experience converting HL7v.2.x data to XML format and using XPath/XQuery to map the data onto CCDA documents such as Confidential
• Experience developing, testing, troubleshooting, deploying interfaces to various environments, implementation and support.
• Hands on experience building interfaces using integration engines like Mirth, WMB, and cloverleaf.
• Proficient in various software development life cycle (SDLC) methodologies used in healthcare integration
• Expertise building real-time, batch and file transfer interfaces for ADT, ORM, ORU, RDE, DFT, SIU, MDM transaction types.
• Experience working on and configuring message transfer protocols including TCP/IP, FTP, SFTP, Web Services (SOAP) etc.
• Proficient in performing Unit testing, System testing, Integrated testing, Regression testing and assisting with UAT
• Experience with the change management process for implementation of interfaces,
• Strong understanding and hands on experience working with HL7 V2.x (traditional version) and 3.x (xml based version) and FHIR.
• Experience in Heath information Exchange (HIE) integration specifically working on Community level (centralized) HIE integration.
• Hands on experience using application like Change gear for generating and resolving tickets as well as defect tracking.
• Ability to multitask including managing multiple projects, prioritizing and ensuring on time delivery of all projects.
• Experience integrating various EMR’s such as Cerner, AllScripts, Meditech, Medseries 4, Epic etc

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

HL7: V2.x, V3.0 and FHIR

LANGUAGES: ESQL, JavaScript, Java, TCL, SQL

INTEGRATION ENGINES: Mirth Connect, Axway, Iguana, Cloverleaf, MMBM

MESSAGE TRANSFER PROTOCOLS: TCP-IP, Web Services, VPN, SFTP, FTP, CFT, HTTP/HTTPS, Web Trader

RDBMS: DB2, MS ACCESS, ORACLE 11.X, SQL SERVER, MySQL

MICROSOFT PRODUCTS: Word, Access, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Project, Visio

OTHER TOOLS: Remedy, WinSCP, Interface Explorer, Putty

PROJECT EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albiele, Texas

HL7 Interface Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Customize client’s interfaces to accept client specific HL7 message event types including ADT’s, SIU’s, DFT’s, ORM’s, ORU’s and MFN’s messages that are sent via TCP/IP using HL7 lower layer transfer prot ocol or flat file from clients RIS / HIS or PM Systems using the Mirth Interface Engine
• Involved in designing different inbound interfaces to our regional platform and EHR vendors.
• Assist with mapping logic from source files to HIE
• Configuring Mirth Channels, creating filters and transformers as per the interface requirements.
• Performing unit and internal testing on interfaces to ensure they are functioning as per the specs and as desired.
• Coordinating connectivity testing and system integrated testing as well as assisting with User Acceptance testing by ensuring the interfaces are running.
• Managing all new interface projects, meeting with vendors and application owners to define scope, goals, objectives and timelines.
• Maintaining an accurate inventory of all existing interfaces documenting all ongoing interface projects for proper planning and support.
• Working with project teams to coordinate technical projects associated with the interfaces to internal and external systems, including working with system owners to assess the impact of system upgrades and changes in functionality on existing interfaces.
• Implementing back out plans as part of the interface cutover plan to ensure changes can be backed out with minimal or no impact during production deployment/ go-live incase issues arise that require the changes to be reversed.
• Troubleshooting and resolving technical and conceptual issues related to the interfaces as issues arise and provide close monitoring of all interfaces to ensure they are running properly.
• Configuring various environments for the development and testing of interfaces including deployment of interfaces to staging environment before go-live and maintaining them after production deployment.
• Evaluating end user and downtime impact when implementing changes in a production environment and providing proper communication by sending notifications before and after implementation.
• Providing support as needed, troubleshooting errors, fixing errors and escalating issues to the appropriate teams.
• Validating and Designing of outbound CCDs using the HL7 version 3.0 from clinical EMR system.
• Using various tools to validate the data mapping from HL7 2.x to 3.x versions

Confidential, New York

Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Built new interfaces, maps and modified existing maps.
• Worked on EMPI solutions to identify patients uniquely across systems.
• Worked on migration from legacy systems to Siemens Soarian product suite (Financials, Clinical, EDM and Scheduling). This is was a massive take over from identifying all the ancillaries, service lines, servicing locations, implanting EMPI, translation tables, different workflows and the phases it went though
• Worked ADT, ORM, ORU, DFT, MDM and SIU messages types.
• Built brand new HL7 interfaces (Design, build, test and deployment).
• Writing scripts to write/read HL7 data to/from Mirth DB and to different databases like Oracle, Microsoft SQL server and DB2.
• Worked on Ambulatory integration with HIS ADT’s, Lab results, Rad results, Scheduling appointments
• Participated in Monitoring the error queues, logs, traces and resolving failed messages and providing support
• Maintaining all the translation tables (e.g.: patient type, class, race, language, ethnicity etc.) and normalizing theses tables across all the ancillaries.
• Supported ancillary upgrades and service packs, making changes to existing interfaces in integration engine to meet the needs of the upgrades. Provided interface support for the development and implementation of interfaces between hospital systems and Physician Clinic Electronic Medical Record systems.
• Provide the necessary support during the monthly Code Drops, Implementing the Interface Configuration Document (ICD) and other Interface related activities.
• Build the required Interface for the Project and perform the required regression testing with all different types of messages from all the effected ancillaries and Clinical Systems.
• Having the ability to perform preliminary investigation of interface-related issues identified during the implementation phase and has the ability to search for, and edit HL7 messages through Interface Admin.
• Provided functional/workflow direction to the team on planning, developing, implementing and supporting all aspects related to integrations or products.

Confidential, Houston, Texas

EHR Interface Engineer

Key Responsibilities

• Monitoring interface data between systems and resolving any user data errors found, consulting with user departments to assess data flow processes and their impact on interface environment.
• Performing Mirth engine upgrades and conducting interface tests to ensure the data integrity.
• Document and communicate enterprise level test strategy and timelines to meet regulatory and quality
• Analyze requirements/spec based upon the ICD 10 guidelines and participated in the interface testing with the ICD 10 applications.
• Provide 24/7 Interface Monitoring for the In/Out interfaces
• Provide production support adhering to HIPAA regulations, security, to protect sensitive patient data.
• Interface analysis, design and development with Mirth Connect Integration Engine
• Work in teams to implement (analysis, development, testing) HL7 interfaces with other product systems for customers.
• Participate in clinic data flow conversion, go-live support for client medical centers situated across multiple state jurisdictions
• Meaningful Use ( Confidential ) Implementation and Interoperability with Health Information Exchange (HIE).
• Interoperability projects employing GMT patient folder between hospital information systems and external HIE
• Utilizing Continuity of Care Document ( Confidential ) to facilitate information exchange.
• Worked on skip logics, translation tables, user exists, memory and counter variables.
• Worked on production issues and identifying the root cause.
• Participate in development workgroups to improve interface implementations and functionality.
• Daily Monitor of interface and error related queues from the interface Engine utility.
• Report and create trouble tickets to resolve problems related to the interfaces.
• Performed unit testing and coordinated connectivity and system testing with vendors.
• Participated in integrated testing covering all ADT, ORM, ORU and DFT interfaces.