Electronic Case Reporting Informatics Coordinator

Title- Electronic Case Reporting Informatics Coordinator

Location- Remote

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35 hours work week.

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Summary

The Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) has retained Knowledge Services to provide an Electronic Case Reporting (ECR) Informatics Coordinator. This position will coordinate electronic case reporting with health care organizations and providers including communication regarding requirements, implementations steps and validation. The ECR Informatics Coordinator will support RIDOH’s Center for Health Data and Analysis (CHDA) promoting inter- and intra-departmental collaboration benefiting all public health program areas.

Responsibilities

• Manage efforts to improve information sharing for transitions of care
• Design workflows and coordinate processes and technical information with IT staff, epidemiology staff, and surveillance staff
• Works with team in the analysis, formulation, development and delivery of engagement material and results
• Plans, develops, and maintains engagement public health informatics projects and program plans
• Coordinate technical and business resources to ensure prompt problem resolution and implementation success
• Assess current state of data and health information systems and services, including data exchange and information systems, to identify opportunities for modernization and interoperability
• Participates in the preparation and submission of grant or other funding opportunity applications or progress reports, including outcome measures
• Assists programs with defining data needs and data collection, leverages new and existing technologies and theories for managing data
• Support the onboarding of healthcare organizations in the use of eCR
• Facilitate the implementation of Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program Requirements
• Collaborates with other staff in the center for acute infectious disease epidemiology and other divisions and centers to improve data systems and processes
• Participates in the design, management, use, and evaluation of disease surveillance systems
• Assist with coordination of testing with healthcare organizations and public health jurisdictions to ensure correct data mapping and improved data quality received by RIDOH
• Administer policies and standards that facilitate feature implementation & onboarding of new health care partners
• Trouble shoot and track any production issues with incoming data pipeline.
• Perform technical and business-related research to support health care partner’s needs, assist in the installation/implementation, development, and analysis of materials/ processes/ systems
• Develop processes to work with data senders to resolve message/data completeness, timeliness, quality, and message validation issues identified
• Assist the Informatics team in Department wide initiatives related to Data, Technology, and Informatics
• Perform other duties as assigned
  
  

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge and background in public health Informatics, or a related field
• Knowledge and familiarity with HL7, Rational Rhapsody, and electronic laboratory reporting
• Detail oriented
• Ability to work independently and in a team
• Excellent communication skills
  
  

Education And Experience

• Bachelor's degree in public health, epidemiology, information technology or a related field plus three (3) years of professional experience in communicable disease or infectious disease surveillance and/or control programs at the local, state, or federal level
• Experience working with public health systems such as electronic disease surveillance system
• Experience in informatics (Required)
• Infectious Disease Surveillance: 3 years (Required)
• HL7 Development: 2 years (Required)
• Relational databases: 3 years (Required)