Interoperability and Integration Specialist

Community Health Systems•United States,

About The Position

This role focuses on developing, maintaining, and supporting healthcare integrations, with a primary emphasis on Mirth Connect and a strategic focus on InterSystems HealthShare. The specialist will be responsible for ensuring seamless data exchange between various clinical systems, supporting hospital-specific integrations, and contributing to the planning and implementation of future-state integration strategies, including cloud-hosted options. The position requires a strong understanding of interoperability standards and the ability to collaborate effectively with internal teams, external vendors, and state agencies.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on Mirth Connect experience in a healthcare integration environment
Strong working knowledge of HL7 v2.x, FHIR, CCD/CDA, and interfacing protocols
At least 2 years of experience with InterSystems HealthShare (Health Connect or Ensemble)
Experience supporting production interfaces in mission-critical hospital or HIE environments
Familiarity with EMRs such as Cerner, Athena, Medhost, or Epic
Basic scripting experience (JavaScript, XSLT, or Python preferred)
Ability to contribute to 24x7 on-call rotation
Strong troubleshooting and analytical mindset
Clear verbal and written communication
Team player with ability to work independently and under pressure
Strong documentation and customer-facing collaboration skills

Nice To Haves

Experience with cloud-based integration (GCP preferred)
Familiarity with Carequality/CommonWell networks, immunization registries, and HIE frameworks
Understanding of HIPAA, HITECH, and healthcare compliance

Responsibilities

Develop, maintain, and monitor HL7/FHIR interfaces using Mirth Connect, managing channels, transformations, filters, and communication protocols.
Handle Mirth upgrades, performance tuning, and participate in DR/HA documentation and validation.
Collaborate with platform specialists to ensure high availability and platform integrity.
Provide end-to-end support for hospital-specific integrations, state reporting, PHR workflows, and EMR conversions.
Troubleshoot production issues and lead root cause analysis across a diverse ecosystem of clinical systems and vendors.
Coordinate with offshore/onshore teams for 24x7 support coverage.
Participate in the pilot deployment of HealthShare Health Connect.
Build and configure message routes, transformations, and business processes using HealthShare components (IRIS, Ensemble).
Support platform consolidation planning across fragmented integration engines.
Assist in evaluating cloud-hosted options (e.g., GCP) for future-state deployment.
Implement and support workflows involving HL7 v2/v3, FHIR R4, X12, CCD, CDA.
Contribute to roadmap planning for advanced HIE participation, API adoption, and care coordination use cases.
Develop and maintain documentation including design specs, test cases, support runbooks, and DR plans.
Communicate with hospital IT teams, vendors (Cerner, Medhost, Athena), and state agencies.