Note: Remote

Must Haves:

• 3+ years' knowledge and understanding of digital health standards including but not limited to HL7 FHIR, clinical terminologies (e.g., SNOMED-CT, LOINC) and their application.
• 3+ years' hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR tooling including but not limited to Simplifier, HL7 Validator, and Forge.
• 3+ years' hands-on experience with JSON and XML.
• 3+ years' knowledge and understanding of pan-Canadian digital health standards and tooling.
• 3+ Healthcare experience within Canada in acute care, primary care and/or community care settings.
• 3+ years' hands-on experience implementing HL7 FHIR standards and solutions.
• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, and strong partner engagement skills.
• Time management skills, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects.

Public Sector Experience: Preferred

Description

Background Information :

• Project - Patients Before Paperwork
• As part of the refreshed digital health and data strategy, OH will make a concerted effort to leverage new and existing digital solutions, as part of a clinically led change program, to make tangible improvements to how frontline providers work and contribute to bringing joy back to clinical practice.
• Frontline providers, particularly in primary care, report administrative burden as one of the leading causes of burnout, worsening the health human resource strain, leading to more Ontarians being unattached to primary care and increasing utilization of walk-in clinics and emergency departments.

Deliverables:

• The purpose of this request is to acquire a HL7 FHIR resource with expertise in FHIR standards and awareness of applicable Terminology standards who will work with others in support of the Digital Health Standards (DHS) Program to deliver standards components of Patients before Paperwork project in the following capacity and other relevant deliverables as required:

Responsibilities:

• Conduct requirements gathering, develops documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conduct partner engagement.
• Work with different partners and subject matter experts from different backgrounds (clinical, business, and technical).
• Interact with the business partners and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
• Develop and document HL7 FHIR artifacts and supporting documentation.
• Validate, troubleshoot, and problem solve the HL7 FHIR artifacts.

Desired Skills:

• Hands-on experience with HL7 FHIR Structured Data Capture (SDC).
• Familiarity with Microsoft Products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools (e.g., Microsoft Office 365).
• Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario.
• Experience working with Ontario Health and/or legacy eHealth Ontario.
• Ability to readily identify, assess and mitigate implementation and adoption issues.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines.

Deliverable Categories/roles:

• Deliverable Category % Allocation
• HL7 FHIR Standards artifacts Development & Implementation Services 100%

Required Skills:

• FHIR standards assessment, selection, development, and maintenance processes
• Research and analysis
• Communication and collaboration
• Partner engagement and management

Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria: Total : 100 Points

• Knowledge and experience designing and implementing HL7 Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) standard by demonstrating experience and processes for conducting detailed standards research, gap analysis and recommendations. : 15 Points
• Knowledge and experience developing and maintaining HL7 FHIR implementation guides including publication, versioning, ongoing maintenance and deprecation, including work with standards development organizations or standards maintenance organizations to advance the quality and usability of standards.: 15 Points
• Knowledge and experience of the development and implementation of HL7 FHIR standards including use in electronic forms, referrals and other solutions that reduce the use of paper faxing.: 20 Points
• Knowledge and experience of HL7 FHIR tooling including but not limited to Simplifier, HL7 Validator, and Forge.: 25 Points
• Experience in implementing interoperable digital health solutions, including assessing readiness of existing clinical information systems for collection/submission of standards-based clinical information to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and consider effective workflow.: 10 Points
• Knowledge and understanding of the standards lifecycle and the Digital Health standards landscape (Ontario Health, Canadian/pan-Canadian, and international standards), and Digital Health initiatives in other jurisdictions (local, regional, provincial) is an asset. : 10 Points
• Knowledge and strong understanding of jurisdictional Electronic Health Record (EHR) projects, interoperability services and integration with healthcare initiatives within regional healthcare organizations for clinical data repositories, and other associated healthcare information systems in use within a jurisdiction.: 5 Points

Deliverables

• Confirm HL7 FHIR requirements related to the different streams of work in the Patients before Paperwork project in the context of collect once and use many for direct care and subsequent data use as identified in the OH data and analytics strategy and OH data and analytics operating model areas of focus.
• Provide support related to the following 2 streams of work in the Pb4P project:
• Referrals/Consults/Central Intake
• Provincial Health Service Directory (PHSD)
• Work collaboratively with the Digital Health Standards Program on the following deliverables related to standards:
• Specification Development and Maintenance
• Standards Orientation
• Walkthrough of Specifications
• Testing Support

Deliverables:

• Perform requirement elicitation, validation, and documentation.
• Consult and collaborate with partners to update Standards Implementation Guide contents using Simplifier and Forge:
• Business Narratives (e.g. Use Cases, Business Models and Rules, etc.)
• Technical and FHIR Artifacts
• Terminology Artifacts
• Validate Standards Implementation Guide:
• Validate FHIR Artifacts using HL7 Validator
• Validate Technical and FHIR Artifacts with Partners (e.g. Architecture, Clinical, Privacy, Analytics, Digital Health Standards Program (DHS), etc.)
• Collaborate with partners to troubleshoot validation issues
• Document Digital Health Standards Assessments (i.e. Conceptual, Logical, Physical) to support Project Delivery Committee and other governance structures.
• Present Digital Health Standards Assessments to DHS.
• Participate in collaboration with DHS team at partners meetings and workshops.
• Develop and present weekly report of deliverables, time, and status updates.
• Provide knowledge transfer documents and conduct knowledge transfer sessions for all project deliverables with assigned Ontario Health subject matter experts.
• Follow Ontario Health and DHS guidelines for documentation, templates, and data storage and organization.
• Complete deliverables in adherence to Ontario Health guidelines for all communication, email, messaging, etc.

Additional Terms

Terms and Conditions:

• Ontario Health assets including laptops and related equipment cannot be removed from the province of Ontario without prior written approval from Ontario Health.
• Assignment Type: This position is currently listed as "Remote".