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Ontario Health is seeking to implement the Interoperable Enterprise Terminology Strategy for Ontario to address current gaps and evolving requirements as a result of digital health trends and opportunities for innovative terminology use in Ontario’s digital health and analytical solutions.

Responsibilities:

Conduct requirements gathering, develop 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

Deliverables:

Implement Terminology Management: Ontario Health, through Digital Health Standards (DHS), has responsibility and authority to manage provincially approved terminology standards. This includes terminology standards selection and approval, maintenance and promotion. Effective change management and release management will ensure these standards are up to date, relevant and maximize benefit to the sector
Implement Terminology Value, Literacy & Adoption strategies: Evolve and operationalize understanding the value of terminology standards by clinicians, vendors, health regulators and patients will improve adoption of standardized terminology. Providing a focal point for terminology standards for education materials, source of truth and forms for terminology change requests support awareness of standards and their value
Support implementation of Terminology Technology: Terminology Tooling provides the ability to improve efficiency and accuracy in the use of standardized terminology through lookup, search, map and enhanced cognitive capabilities (e.g. AI)
Data Governance Considerations: Consider and align with Ontario and pan Canadian data governance structures to reflect the Future State for terminology standards and interoperability. This should include reviewing the committee structures and terms of reference, participate to ensure that terminology standards are seen as integral part of data management.

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".

Knowledge Transfer Details:

• The Candidate will ensure full knowledge transfer is provided to the Ontario Health team before end of engagement. Some of this might occur at the end of the engagement but will also be shared as information is obtained/consolidated. Key deliverables will be shared with team.

• The Candidate must provide all related documentation as part of Knowledge transfer protocol. Documents will be reviewed by the appropriate leads and signed off by manager/director.

• The candidate will work collaboratively with OH team throughout the assignment and ensure key deliverables, milestones, and documentation are shared.

• A walkthrough of any demos, development, etc. will be required before end of engagement.

Advantages
Good compensation working on projects that will make a difference to the people of Ontario.

Responsibilities
Description
Background:

The purpose of this request is to acquire a resource who will work with others to implement and deliver the Interoperable Enterprise Terminology Strategy for Ontario.

Ontario Health is seeking to implement the Interoperable Enterprise Terminology Strategy for Ontario to address current gaps and evolving requirements as a result of digital health trends and opportunities for innovative terminology use in Ontario’s digital health and analytical solutions.

Responsibilities:

Conduct requirements gathering, develop 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

Deliverables:

Implement Terminology Management: Ontario Health, through Digital Health Standards (DHS), has responsibility and authority to manage provincially approved terminology standards. This includes terminology standards selection and approval, maintenance and promotion. Effective change management and release management will ensure these standards are up to date, relevant and maximize benefit to the sector
Implement Terminology Value, Literacy & Adoption strategies: Evolve and operationalize understanding the value of terminology standards by clinicians, vendors, health regulators and patients will improve adoption of standardized terminology. Providing a focal point for terminology standards for education materials, source of truth and forms for terminology change requests support awareness of standards and their value
Support implementation of Terminology Technology: Terminology Tooling provides the ability to improve efficiency and accuracy in the use of standardized terminology through lookup, search, map and enhanced cognitive capabilities (e.g. AI)
Data Governance Considerations: Consider and align with Ontario and pan Canadian data governance structures to reflect the Future State for terminology standards and interoperability. This should include reviewing the committee structures and terms of reference, participate to ensure that terminology standards are seen as integral part of data management.

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".

Knowledge Transfer Details:

• The Candidate will ensure full knowledge transfer is provided to the Ontario Health team before end of engagement. Some of this might occur at the end of the engagement but will also be shared as information is obtained/consolidated. Key deliverables will be shared with team.

• The Candidate must provide all related documentation as part of Knowledge transfer protocol. Documents will be reviewed by the appropriate leads and signed off by manager/director.

• The candidate will work collaboratively with OH team throughout the assignment and ensure key deliverables, milestones, and documentation are shared.

• A walkthrough of any demos, development, etc. will be required before end of engagement.

Qualifications
Must haves:

Minimum 10 years’ hands-on experience in mapping and implementing clinical terminologies such as SNOMED CT and LOINC
Minimum 10 years’ knowledge and understanding of digital exchange standards such as FHIR, clinical terminologies (e.g., SNOMED-CT, LOINC) and their application within Ontario Health with applicable terminology tools (e.g., Ontoserver)
3+ years' experience with process mapping, process improvement and operationalizing workflows
3+ years' experience developing and implementing strategies, prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis, and conducts feasibility studies
Clinical experience within Canada in acute care, primary care and/or community care settings
Extensive knowledge and understanding of pan-Canadian digital exchange standards and tooling
Hands-on experience implementing terminology services and solutions
Excellent communication skills both verbal and written, and strong partner engagement skills
Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects

Desired Skills:

Proficiency 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
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

Required Skills:

Terminology standards assessment, selection, development, implementation and maintenance processes including Reference sets/Map sets/Subset development
Research and analysis
Communication and collaboration
Partner engagement and management
Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria:

Extensive knowledge and implementation experience with clinical data, terminology and technical standards such as SNOMED CT/SNOMED CT-CA, LOINC/pCLOCD, ICD-10-CA, CCI, HL7 v2, HL7 FHIR. 25 Points

Knowledge and experience of the development and implementation of terminology standards such as LOINC and SNOMED CT/SNOMED CT-CA. 25 Points

Experience in developing provincial terminology strategy and implementation plans including engagement with partners to assess and define the proposed model(s). 10 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 EHR. 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 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. 10 Points

Knowledge and experience with the following terminology asset management tools is an asset (e.g., Apelon DTS, Term Works, Ontoserver, Shrimp). 10 Points

Total: 100 points

Summary
If interested and qualified for this role, please apply today for immediate consideration!

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