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The Tennessee Department of Health (TDH) is currently recruiting an Epidemiologist to assist in the coordination of communicable disease informatics related projects as a part of the Surveillance Systems and Informatics (SSI) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Disease and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) Division. This position will serve as an ELR Specialist for the SSI Program. The epidemiologist will support REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR), and other SSI informatics projects and initiatives. As a member of the SSI Program, this individual will get exposure and experience in the use and development of interoperability standards, like HL7, and will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of informatics projects including system integration.
Job Responsibility:
Complete ELR onboarding using HL7 2.5.1 standards
Provide input on and manage various production monitoring tasks including alerts, dashboard development and maintenance, and issue identification
Complete investigation of ELR processing issues independently and identify proposed solutions
Work collaboratively with Rhapsody developers to enhance existing routes or define new routes for ELR processing
Assist with processing of laboratory data submitted via our alternate file format (i.e., flat file)
Coordinate routine and ad hoc management of standard interoperability vocabulary within the disease surveillance system
Act as liaison to downstream users of ELR data within TDH and CEDEP
Support other ELR maintenance tasks (e.g parallel validation, LOINC code assignments, and production errors)
Requirements:
Ability to Work Independently
Accuracy
Analytical Skills
Coordination
Problem Solving
Work experience with ELR onboarding and/or maintenance at a state or local health department, 1-3 years
Work experience with Rhapsody or working to define specifications for Rhapsody developers, 1-3 years
Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS, SQL, or R