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

Responsibilities
-Conducts requirements gathering, develops documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducts stakeholder engagement
-Work with different stakeholders and subject matter experts from different backgrounds (clinical, business, and technical).
-Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.


Qualifications
-5+ years’ hands-on experience in HL7 data exchange standards and terminology development, maintenance and publication
-3+ years' knowledge and understanding of digital exchange standards such as FHIR and use of vocabularies
-3+ years’ experience in developing provincial data exchange strategy and implementation plans including engagement with partners to assess and define the approach for FHIR and terminology standards alignment
-Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills
-Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
-Familiarity with Microsoft Products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools (e.g., Microsoft Office 365).
-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
-Subject matter expertise with health data exchange standards assessment, selection, development, maintenance and implementation
-Good understanding of pan-Canadian and Ontario digital health landscape, trends and challenges
-Experience with research and analysis
-Excellent communication and collaboration skills
-Excellent partner management skills
-Experience with Strategy development
Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria:
-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.
-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.
-Knowledge and hands-on experience with the development and implementation of HL7 FHIR standards and other legacy data exchange standards used in a highly complex jurisdictional health data exchange environment, involving cross enterprise system integration for multiple purposes including direct care, data analytics, system planning and research.
-Experience in developing provincial data exchange strategy and implementation plans including engagement with partners to assess and define the approach for FHIR and terminology standards alignment.
-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.
-Knowledge and hands-on experience with identifier management (e.g. object identifiers, uniformed resource identifier, etc.) for cross-enterprise health data exchange.
-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.
Deliverables
-Confirm data exchange strategic goals, objectives and guiding principles 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.
-Develop a stakeholder engagement plan for within Ontario Health and partner organizations.
-Engage key stakeholders to undertake a current state assessment of data exchange services, base standards versions and data exchange practices within Ontario Health (and partner organizations (federal, national, provincial, territorial, and local/Ontario Health Teams)) including evaluation of scope of services, standards supported, tooling, governance, maintenance processes, operational models, etc., including in the context of data governance and the information management planning.
-Perform analysis of existing services offered by Ontario Health, identify opportunities for data definition and specification harmonization and consolidation, and define the future requirements to support “collect once, use many” in Ontario.
-Perform analysis of the standard identifiers (e.g. object identifiers, uniformed resource identifier) used in the health data exchange, current identifier management approach and challenges, and make recommendations for the future identifier management model and transition strategy.
-Assess evolving enterprise data exchange requirements as a result of digital health trends such as Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, use of interface data exchange solutions, etc. and plans for existing tool evolution and trends in Canada and with partners.
-Identify alignment opportunities to the OH Information Management Plan, Data for Connected Health, Digital Health Information Exchange (DHIEX) Program, OH data governance framework, and other data governance related strategies and plans as appropriate.
-Identify alignment opportunities with the OH Interoperable Enterprise Terminology Strategy and implementation work
-Identify opportunities to address gaps and align with strategic goals and partner organizations, including consideration of people, process, technology and change.
-Develop a recommended interoperable enterprise data exchange strategy including:
-Short-term and longer-term plans
-An implementation roadmap
-Cross enterprise identifier management approach
-Roles and responsibilities between Ontario Health and partner organizations
Additional Terms
-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.

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

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