Nextgen EHR Architect/Project Manager

InnoSoul•Columbia, SC

5d•Remote

About The Position

Plans, designs, develops, and implements architecture for systems, applications, security, or other highly specialized phases of IT architecture. Applies technology and designs system architectures to align with the agency's strategic business objectives for Health-IT. Systems include Nextgen Healthcare's EHR, PM, EDR, NGShare, NG Mobile, MIRTH, eZmar, and Symmetry. This role leads the planning and evolution of an agency's Health IT Electronic Health Records system technology and architecture design, working with executive leadership to create technology strategies that support the agency's overall goals and strategic plans. The role involves developing and maintaining the technology strategic roadmap and security architecture documents, aligning technology initiatives with state-level standards, and ensuring compliance with security standards. Effective communication of technology and security topics to executive leadership is crucial. The role also involves comparing, evaluating, and recommending products and vendors, aiding in technology selection, and coordinating transitions. Developing policies, processes, and management control methods to ensure architectures and strategic direction are created, documented, understood, adhered to, and enforced is also a key responsibility. The position requires providing leadership in strategic planning, architecture planning, technology review committees, system development life cycle processes, change control boards, security compliance processes, and other relevant activities. It also involves communicating external activities and directives, responding to state-level IT requirements, and staying abreast of market trends and emerging technologies to provide strategic vision for new technology adoption.

Requirements

10+ years' experience working with Electronic Health Records
5+ years' experience with using Nextgen EHR, PM and EDR
Nextgen Certification
Extensive knowledge of Nextgen Healthcare's Template editor, creating customized templates.
HIPAA, ICD-9/ICD-10, Health care specific data interface standards, and health information exchange technologies.
Ability to effectively plan and prioritize work activities to meet organizational goals, schedules, and deadlines.
A bachelor's degree in information technology or a related field and experience in business administration, computer science, mathematics, engineering, management information science, networking-telecommunications, and/or data processing.
Experience must include the design and implementation of enterprise-level systems architecture in either an on-premises, cloud-based, or hybrid environment.
Extensive knowledge/skills of the Health-IT industry which includes multi-tiered architectures, enterprise applications, evaluation of emerging technologies, networks, data management systems, enterprise security, and hardware systems as they relate to Electronic Health Records, Health Information Exchanges and Electronic Medication Administration Records.
Ability to plan, organize, direct, and review the work of technical personnel.
Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with clients, technical staff, management, vendors, and others.
Extensive knowledge of the principles and techniques of planning programs and work activities in a technical environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience with HL7 and SQL
Experience with Crystal Reports, eMAR, Mirth, PACs,CIPS/Fusion, Merge
Knowledge of project management principles and methodologies.
Relevant experience may substitute for the bachelor's degree on a year-for-year basis.

Responsibilities

Plans, designs, develops, and implements architecture for systems, applications, security, or other highly specialized phases of IT architecture.
Applies technology and designs system architectures to align with the agency's strategic business objectives for Health-IT.
Leads planning and evolution of an agency's Health IT Electronic Health Records system technology and architecture design.
Works with executive leadership to create technology strategies that support the agency's overall goals and strategic plans.
Develops and maintains the technology strategic roadmap and the security architecture documents.
Works with others to align the agency's technology initiatives with state-level standards and strategic directions, ensuring compliance with all applicable security standards.
Effectively communicates technology and security topics to executive leadership.
Works with a team to compare, evaluate, and recommend products and vendors to fulfill technology objectives.
Aids in the decision process to select technologies and coordinate the transition of responsibility for implementation to the appropriate groups.
Develops policies, processes, and management control methods to ensure technology architectures and strategic direction are created, documented, understood, adhered to, and enforced.
Creates documentation to record activities and decisions.
Provides leadership in strategic planning, architecture planning, technology review committees, system development life cycle processes, change control boards, security compliance processes, and other relevant activities.
Communicates external activities and directives to appropriate staff in a timely manner.
Leads in the response to state-level IT requirements and activities, and other technology governance and compliance activities.
Follows and analyzes market trends.
Maintains current and comprehensive knowledge of relevant technology developments in the market, staying abreast of technology trends and emerging technologies.
Provides strategic vision steering for the adoption of new technologies that supports the agency's mission and vision.
Assists with the implementation and continued operation of the agency's electronic health records system and related health care technologies.
Assists in the EHR implementation process, including build, testing, training, and go live of the EHR system in conjunction with the vendor.
Works with SCDC staff and vendors to implement interfaces between the EHR system and external systems such as the SCDC offender management system, lab information system, PACs, pharmacy, etc.
Assists management in establishing reporting requirements and develops reports from the Nextgen database.
Works with vendors and technical staff from regional health care providers to plan and implement SCDC participation in public and /or private health information exchanges.
Works with medical and mental health care providers to evaluate current processes and implement technology solutions to reduce costs and improve staff efficiency and patient care.
Evaluates and recommends equipment for purchase / lease.
Provides status reports to management.