Financial Foreign Systems Interface Analyst

Job Summary

Community Health Systems is hiring a Financial Foreign Systems Interface Analyst to join our EHR Team. As the Financial Foreign Systems Interface Analyst, you will be responsible for the technical planning and oversight of interface installation. The Foreign Systems Interface will be installing/configuring Cerner interfaces to connect with disparate systems and code custom interfaces as well. You will be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving complex interface issues, which
would require a good understanding of networking, database querying, and programming concepts. You are also expected to support interface validation/testing/deployment/documentation during the life cycle of the project. This highly technical and hands-on position requires the incumbent to work in a team and individual work setting contributing to all aspects of system integration including design, needs analysis, design review, testing, implementation, and validation.

Essential Functions

• The Financial Foreign Systems Interface Analyst, you will be responsible for the technical planning and oversight of interface installation.
• Manage the complex technical projects in environments with a high degree of variability that require influence to achieve targeted outcomes.
• Configuration and management of Cerner Open Engine, HL7 and EDI transactions. Create project and process documentation for interface, applications and operating system environment; Include filtering, message customizations, problem resolution, Root Cause Analysis, and alerting.
• Consult with internal project stakeholders, Business Partners, and organizational teams to bi-directionally share configuration status, project timelines and project updates, and verify configuration requests.
• Installing/configuring Cerner interfaces to connect with disparate systems and code custom interfaces.
• You will be responsible for troubleshooting and resolving complex interface issues, which would require a good understanding of networking, database querying, and programming concepts.
• You are also expected to support interface validation/testing/deployment/documentation during the life cycle of the project.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• At least 1-6 years total combined related work experience and completed higher education, including:
  • Experience with an integration engine (Mirth, Cloverleaf, Corepoint etc.)
  • Experience with HL7/X12 standards
  • Experience with Cerner Open Engine and Cerner Millennium FSI utilities and data architecture such as SI Manager, Open Engine and related tables
  • Proficient in Cerner Command Language (CCL) or SQL programming experience
  • Scripting & Configuration experience preferred (ie AIX/Linux, Sequel series, non-standard protocol)
  • Hands-on experience with both current and emerging interoperability standards such as
    Health Level Seven International (HL7) V2.x, V3, Clinical Document Architecture (CDA), CCD, JSON and Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR) required.
  • Experience with SOAP and/or RESTful API connection projects required.

Preferred Experience

• 1-6 year’s experience working with Cerner Millennium