What are the responsibilities and job description for the Epidemiologist position at State of Tennessee?
Job Title: Epidemiologist
Location: Remote
Duration: 12 Months
Rate: $52/hr. on 1099
Responsibilities:
Job duties will include:
- 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).
Desired Qualifications:
- 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.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to manage projects.
Salary : $52