Data Conversion Implementation Specialist

Company Description: Harmony Healthcare IT (HHIT) is a data management firm that moves and stores patient, employee, and business records for healthcare organizations. To strengthen care delivery and improve lives, vital information is preserved and managed by HHIT in a way that keeps it accessible, releasable, usable, interoperable, secure and compliant. HHIT has established core values for the workplace. This helps to maintain a culture of excellence and provides guidance in our daily work. HHIT’s core values are:

• Do the right thing
• Be easy to work with
• Exceed expectations
• Serve humbly
• Never stop improving
  
  

Position Summary: The Data Conversion Implementation Specialist is responsible for performing essential project-related activities as assigned. This position provides input to conversion solution planning, interacts with customer subject matter experts, technical resources, and 3rd party vendors to design requirements and standards for data conversion. This position is an in-office, in-person, or hybrid role if local to South Bend, or remote if not local to South Bend and requires flexible work hours to accommodate go-live conversion activities as needed. Primary Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the internal project team, clients, and go-forward vendors to ensure a smooth and successful conversion of data from the source application to the destination application
• Facilitate meetings with subject matter experts to gather and document source application conversion requirements, mapping content to destination system specification documents
• Conduct clinical user group sessions to convert source system values to destination system category lists according to ingestion standards and specifications
• Follow a standard and repeatable process to perform data ingestion file format (HL7, CCDA, delimited file, etc.) quality assurance checks and data integrity validation, paying close attention to detail
• Develop and maintain internal and client-facing process documentation to support a successful and repeatable conversion
• Bridge the gap between end-user requirements and technology solutions by creating and maintaining validation scripts and tip sheets
• Lead end-user validation kickoff and training sessions, host end-user validation office hours, and provide at-the-elbow support
• Provide implementation support through testing phases by triaging end-user reported issues, documenting, routing to proper team, and managing through to resolution
• Report on the progress of validation issue management back to project team
• Support project management resources in understanding and updating project timelines
• Provide client support for go-live events by triaging and managing data conversion-related issues reported by clients
  
  

Required Skills /Abilities:

• Possesses impeccable written and verbal communication skills
• Strong problem solving, analytical and interpersonal qualities
• Knowledge with querying and manipulating large-scale databases
• Ability to analyze data stored in a variety of formats to deliver high quality output
• Deep understanding of data conversion processes and best practices
• Strategy formulation and development of successful legacy data conversions
• Excellent organizational skills and attention to detail
• Drive to complete project deliverables against aggressive timeline requirements
• Be easy to work with and a great team-player
• Ability to effectively prioritize and handle multiple tasks and projects
  
  

Education & Experience:

• 5 Years working with healthcare data
• Experience with Epic or other data conversion projects through go-live on the new EMR
• Certification for EpicCare Ambulatory, Inpatient and HIM preferred
• Experience working with HL7, CCDA, and other healthcare data standards and formats
• Experience taking accountability for high-profile projects
  
  

Other:

• Willing and ready to exemplify HHIT’s core values on a daily basis
• Responsible for protecting data entrusted to HHIT by customers or other parties by strictly adhering to HHIT’s data security and privacy policies and procedures, as well as HIPAA, PIPEDA and all other applicable law.
• Speaking and writing English is a requirement for this position
  
  

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times