Program Manager 0335-1016

Job Responsibility: HM Note: This contract role is remote. This is a part-time role at manager's discretion. Candidates must reside in Ontario, Canada. Candidate resume must include first and last name. Description Background Information: Ontario Health is seeking to move towards a more unified Electronic Health Record Solution that harmonizes various legacy domain-specific FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) Profiles and artifacts. A FHIR Strategic Advisor is sought to evaluate and recommend how this end goal can be achieved through incremental changes over time. Ontario Health believes there are gaps in the training materials they have available for staff who are working on FHIR-related activities and expect to identify additional asynchronous training materials in the area of FHIR architecture, design, standards harmonization, pan-Canadian alignment, SMART on FHIR, FHIR Subscriptions, FHIR Structured Data Capture and other advanced topics. Must haves:

• Demonstrated expertise with FHIR architecture design and implementation with multiple Canadian and international jurisdictions
• Minimum 15 years' experience in national and/or jurisdictional health data exchange architecture design and implementation. Experience with Ontario's provincial electronic health record (EHR) is preferred
• Minimum 10 years' experience in FHIR design and architecture
• Minimum 10 years of experience of developing FHIR profiles and implementation guides
• College/University undergraduate degree in Computer Science or related discipline from a recognized institution or equivalent experience.
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of pan-Canadian digital exchange standards and tooling
• Extensive knowledge and understanding of HL7 data types, vocabulary and other artifacts used in FHIR Profiles
• Expertise in implementing SMART on FHIR and advising on advanced SMART on FHIR architectures
• Expertise in implementing FHIR Structured Data Capture (SDC) and advising on advanced FHIR SDC architectures
• Experience performing current state assessments and gap analysis.
• Excellent Communication skills both verbal and written, and strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Time Management, with the ability to manage tight deadlines and prioritize multiple projects
• At least 5 years of experience in delivering FHIR-related training on advanced topics, including FHIR architecture, SMART on FHIR and FHIR SDC.
Responsibilities:
• Conducts requirements gathering, develops documentation, including presentations and briefing notes and conducts stakeholder engagement
• Work with different stakeholders and subject matter experts from different backgrounds (clinical, business, and technical).
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering, documenting, and analyzing business needs and requirements.
Desired Skills:
• Familiarity with Microsoft Products, with a preference for candidates that have experience with Microsoft based cloud tools (e.g., Microsoft Office 365).
• Knowledge of Healthcare Information Systems used throughout the province of Ontario
• Ability to readily identify, assess and mitigate implementation and adoption issues
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadlines
Required Skills:
• FHIR standards assessment, selection, development, and maintenance processes
• Research and analysis
• Communication and collaboration
• Stakeholder management
Required Experience / Evaluation Criteria: 1.Knowledge and experience designing and implementing HL7 FHIR (Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources) standard by demonstrating: 30 Points
• Experience and processes for conducting detailed standards research, gap analysis and recommendations.
• Experience developing and maintaining HL7 FHIR implementation guides including publication, versioning, ongoing maintenance and deprecation, including work with standards development organizations or standards maintenance organizations to advance the quality and usability of standards.
2.Experience assessing of adoption of the HL7 SMART on FHIR to determine if their use and proposed use are consistent with best practices, providing education and guidance for standard based clinical decision support, aligned with underlying design principles, and aligned with pan-Canadian standards where applicable, and to inform the evolution of pan-Canadian standards as appropriate.: 20 Points 3.Experience completing current state analysis and design of FHIR artefacts and implementation guide related to FHIR Subscriptions and ability to provide guidance based on design principles and best practices: 15 Points 4.Knowledge and experience of the development and implementation of HL7 FHIR standards including use in electronic forms, referrals and other solutions that reduce the use of paper faxing: 15 Points 5.Experience in implementing interoperable digital health solutions, including assessing readiness of existing clinical information systems for collection/submission of standards-based clinical information to the EHR: 10 Points 6.Knowledge and understanding of the standards lifecycle and the Digital Health standards landscape (Canadian/pan-Canadian, and international standards), and Digital Health initiatives in other jurisdictions (local, regional, provincial) is an asset: 10 Points Total Capabilities Evaluation Criteria - 100 points Deliverables
• Provide guidance for Ontario Health interoperability specification approach based on the outcomes of Ontario Health's EHR Data Strategy and Hospital Feeds Strategy.
• Assist with Ontario Health's participation in the pan-Canadian interoperability specification co-design, including reviewing work in progress, providing advisory opinions to guide the specification development and issue resolution based on best practices.
• Provide advisory guidance to Ontario Health's implementation of Health Application Lightweight Protocol (HALO) or SMART on FHIR, FHIR Subscriptions, FHIR Structured Data Capture, clinical decision support, structured clinical documents, and other initiatives as necessary.
• Review Ontario Health interoperability specifications and provide guidance based on design principles and best practices.
• Training
• As part of the other work, identify gaps in existing Ontario Health training materials.
• Work with Ontario Health to define additional training objectives and design recorded training sessions for incorporation into Ontario Health's e-Learning environment.
• Deliver such training, including the potential for recorded ad-hoc deep dives into FHIR-related technical topics of interest, including best practices, underlying principles, and relevant Canadian and international work.
Knowledge Transfer Details:
• The resource will ensure full knowledge transfer is provided to the Ontario Health team before end of engagement. Some of this might occur at the end of the engagement but will also be shared as information is obtained/consolidated. Key deliverables will be shared with team.
• The resource must provide all related documentation as part of Knowledge transfer protocol. Documents will be reviewed by the appropriate leads and signed off by manager/director.
• The resource will work collaboratively with the Ontario Health team throughout the assignment and ensure key deliverables, milestones, and documentation are shared.
• A walkthrough of any demos, development, etc. will be required before the end of the engagement.
Must Haves:
• Minimum 15 years' experience in national and/or jurisdictional health data exchange architecture design and implementation. Experience with Ontario's provincial electronic health record (EHR) is preferred
• Minimum 10 years' experience in FHIR design and architecture
• Minimum 10 years of experience of developing FHIR profiles and implementation guides