Summary

Highly motivated, self-directing individual with EXCELLENT communication skills and over 6 years of experience in healthcare information technology. I have in-depth knowledge and proficiency in HL7 analysis, development and implementation of interfaces using various SDLC methodologies, business tools and Integration engines like MIRTH, CLOVERLEAF, and IBM WMB and MQ. I have worked on various projects within the HL7 domain including migration projects from legacy systems, implementation of net new interfaces as well as enhancement of existing interfaces, and ICD-10 migration project.

Expertise

Strong experience in Business analysis with primary focus on data analysis, data modeling, Gap Analysis and Project Management.

Extensive experience and expertise in healthcare integration, interface development, implementation and support using various SDLC methodologies including Agile and Waterfall.

Strong analytical and problem solving skills. Willingness and ability to quickly adapt to new environments and learn new technologies.

Detailed working knowledge and hands-on experience with HL7 interface technical/business analysis and development of various interfaces including ADT, ORU, ORM, DFT, MDM etc.

Expertise in the evaluation of healthcare operations and EHR systems and experience integrating EMRs such as EPIC, MEDITECH, MEDSERIES, CERNER, ALLSCRIPTS etc.

Extensive knowledge and experience gathering requirements, and creating specification documents for various interface implementation projects.

Expertise in technical documentation including technical specifications, requirement specifications, Business Requirement Document (BRD), Functional Requirement Document (FRD), Non-Functional Requirement Document, data flow diagrams, data path diagrams and trimaps etc.

Extensive experience working with RDBMS such as Oracle, IBM DB2, SQL Server and creating queries using SQL.

Experience working on Meaningful Use stage 1 and stage 2 requirements, CCDA guidelines and documents (CCD).

Strong Familiarity with healthcare IT standards such as HIPAA, HL7, ICD-9/ICD-10, LOINC, DICOM, X12 etc.

Expertise in utilizing various enterprise tools and interface engines to design, develop, test, and implement HL7 interfaces while conforming to integration specifications and standards.

Hands on experience working with integration engines such as Mirth Connect, Cloverleaf and IBM Integration Bus.

Extensive experience working with vendors and various internal customers of clinical, financial and patient care to develop new HL7 interfaces.

Experience interacting with Business users and SME's providing recommendations to resolve issues for various business and technical groups and defining strategic solutions to business problems in a multiple project environment.

Hands on experience with various testing stages (unit, system, integrated, UAT etc.) and environments such as development, staging and production.

Expertise in creating test plans/test cases and executing them using HP ALM QC and validation of HL7 messages.

Experience working with HL7 version 2.x, and 3.x, EDIFACT, ANSI X12, XML Schemas etc.

Hands on experience with various query and programming languages including SQL, ESQL, Java and JavaScript.

Experience in Heath information Exchange (HIE) integration projects, primarily centralized HIEs.

Extensive experience working in a cross-functional team environment including different geographical location teams including offshore teams.

Strong interpersonal and communication skills, a strong team player, critical thinker and problem solver.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Relay Health, San Francisco, CA August 2014 – Date

Healthcare Integration Specialist Healthcare Integration Specialist

Working on implementation projects for various Relay Health clients/vendors where I was part of a team involved in the analysis, development, testing, support and maintenance of real-time and file transfer interfaces using CLOVERLEAF integration engine.

My detailed responsibilities

Representing the integration team during kick off meetings for various interface implementation projects.

Working with Business and Application analysts to gather and analyze vendor/application requirements, performing gap analysis and creating specification documents that match the requirements.

Involved in various phases of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) using Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Developing and monitored interfaces using Cloverleaf Integration Services (CIS), Cloverleaf Secure Courier (CSC) and Cloverleaf Global Monitor.

Creating and executed codes for performing message translation using Tool Command Language (TCL).

Developing interface front end and back end by creating and routing various threads and stabling connection such as TCP/IP for real-time transfer of data.

Working on developing brand new HL7 interfaces; design, build, test, deployment and support, as well as maintaining and updating/improving existing interfaces.

Working on various EHR projects including implementation and integration of different EMRs in outpatient and ambulatory environment to support patient and physician workflow.

Analyzing, designed, developed, tested, and support interfaces using Cloverleaf interface engine between Epic application modules and software applications

Implementing interfaces, including orders and results to LabCorp reference lab; ADT, orders, and results to PowerPath pathology system; and orders and results to MEDITECH lab information system.

Developing interfaces for sending various transaction types such as ADT, ORM, ORU, SUI, MDM, DFT, MFN etc.

Participates and performs interface testing in various stages including Unit testing, System and integrated testing, User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and performed message validation.

Configuring interfaces using HL7 v.2.4, 2.6, 2.7 and v.3.0, XML Schemas etc.

Configuring Inbound TCP/IP or folder drop, Outbound TCP/IP, FTP, SFTP and other message transfer protocols.

Working on many ancillaries and service lines integration, including Lab, Radiology, Registration, OR, Cardiology, and Emergency department among others.

Demonstrating technical description of HL7 messages supported the HL7 segments and fields and how the HL7 messages relate to the front end application and data base.

Analyzing customer requirements, formulate solutions, and work with supervisors to successfully drive to closure solutions for customers.

Working directly with customers, internal departments and vendors to resolve multiple and various interface and system integration issues.

Creating SQL queries for MS SQL Server database and linked the interfaces with the database for sending messages and storing messages inbound and outbound messages.

Working on EHR, HIE (centralized HIEs) projects between various hospitals, clinics and reference labs.

Working collaboratively with onshore and offshore teams to develop and successfully deploy interfaces.

Dignity Heath Phoenix Arizona

January 2012 – July 2014

HL7 Solutions Architect – Analysis & Development

This project involves Business Analysis and development of interfaces, Migrating from legacy systems and providing support for various Dignity Healthcare vendors/partners; hospitals and Insurance companies within the USA.

My detailed responsibilities

Provided business and technical expertise as well as direct support as needed for applications and interfaces.

Helped with the migration from MIRTH Connect to IBM Integration bus while simultaneously providing HL7 and interface-related knowledge, business and technical support for all interfaces across the organization

Helped in Defining and planning the project scope with the management and vendor/client teams and setting project deadlines.

Participated in Requirement gathering and analysis by directly interacting with the client/ vendor team in order to fully understand their needs and expectations.

Performed Gap Analysis on vendor requirements for creating new interfaces and enhancing existing interfaces.

Was in charge of leading meetings to create and get approval for specification documents from various teams involved in the project.

Helped in designing and developing WMB Message flows, Message sets and MQ queues for various interfaces.

Participated in Implementing Real-time & Batch interfaces using Mirth Connect and WMB, performing mapping, transformations and testing.

Participated in creating, Installing, Testing and Validating HL7 ADT, RX Profile, Inbound & Outbound charges "ORM's", Inbound & outbound results "ORU's", PACS, EMR Transcription & Dictaphone "MDM's" and trouble shooting.

Worked on analysis and development of new interfaces for HL7 ADT, Orders (ORM), and Results (ORU) and charges (DFT).

Was responsible for Performing and participate in unit testing, system testing and Integration testing with the help of Application teams.

Participated in resolving tickets generated in remedy as well as documentation and initialization of the Change Management process.

Worked on interface SDLC process including planning, analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of interfaces.

Worked on Meaningful use (MU) stage 2 deliverables like Patient Portal, CDA and CCDA implementations.

Worked on Java and JavaScript in development and implementation of some of the interfaces built using Mirth Connect.

Implemented HIE using HL7 2.5.1 for meeting MU criteria. Implemented LAB and RAD results routing based on doctor Numbers on the results.

Worked on LAB Micro discrete results from LIS to in-house EMR and to external healthcare organizations/RHIO/HIE and to physician offices.

Helped with maintenance of technical, functional, operational documentation for existing applications.

Helped in resolving issues and providing technical and business solutions.

Helped with the Installation, upgrading, installation of fix packs, monitoring setup.

Extensively used ESQL and JavaScript to create codes for performing mapping procedures and message transformation.

Created and establishing database connections, creating translation tables and developing ESQL code to execute stored procedures, to get information from DB2 database tables.

Worked collaboratively with various teams including offshore teams to successfully deliver and implement interfaces.

CVS Health- Minute Clinic & Caremark Newark New Jersey April 2010 – December 2011

Interface Solutions Architect

The main objective of this project implementation was to introduce the replacement for paper free application in CVS -Minute Clinic where earlier paper free application was used to enroll the members. WMB solution after implementation accepts EDI files from different trading partners, if required application does EDI up conversion, sends the files to EDIFECS for HIPPA validation. Real-time message transfer enables the transfer of data from the Minute Clinic and Physicians and the Pharmacy.

My detailed responsibilities

Performed requirement gathering, data analysis, data modelling and gap analysis on the business requirements.

Collaborated with various teams including the vendors and users to define and understand the business requirements.

Created documents such as the specification documents, workflows and trimaps for the design and development of the interfaces.

Constant communication with all involved teams to ensure successful, efficient and on time delivery of the interfaces.

Developed message flows for performing various message transformation, and validation processes and created various nodes to enable transaction transfers.

Performed operations on IBM HTTP server nodes, JMS nodes, MQ server & client nodes for the efficient flow of the data between applications.

Created Queue managers, messaging queues and brokers to enable data transfer and monitoring and troubleshooting.

Worked on the Clusters and High Availability Clustering to make the administration task easy and the Workload Balancing of the messages.

Designed & created Message sets using MRM import techniques & Message flow codes using ESQL to validate, qualify and transform messages/transactions for various interfaces.

Assigned and deployed message flows and message sets to appropriate Execution Groups in Broker Runtime Environment.

Worked on CPOE implementation between Siemens Pharmacy (PHM) and Siemens EMR (Soarian Clinicals).

Worked on OMP, RAS, and RDE transactions. Extensively worked on SIG file mapping and dosages.

Worked on HL7 ADT, Charges (DFT), Orders (ORM) and Results (ORU) integration between Meditech EMR, Soft Lab and Siemens HIS (Soarian Financials).

Extensively involved in analysis, building and deploying the interfaces using Mirth Interface engine for some of the interfaces.

Worked on Mirth Interface Engine Transformers/Mapping, Filters, Templates and Channels.

Worked both Real-time (LLP Listeners, TCP/IP) and Batch (FTP, SFTP) connectivity and monitored then using WinSCP for Windows and Putty for Unix environment.

Used Remedy for issue and ticket tracking and for Change management Requests and Approvals.

Worked on Direct mapping and extensive mapping using JavaScript, ESQL following specifications as per the requirements. Decoded the EDI integration file and mapped the EDI Fields with the database Fields.

Created translation tables in the databases and established database connectivity between the interfaces to facilitate the use of these tables by the interfaces.

Fetched the data from database with all the required fields mapped for the EDI integration file and hence the out XML file processed to the MQ output queue.

Performed various testing phases to ensure the full functionality of the interfaces including unit, integration, UAT and regression testing.

Merck Pharmaceutical Bridgewater New Jersey

December 2008 – March 2010

Business Analyst Business Analyst

I used my skills from Entry level to a lead role for the organization by creating and managing Enterprise Information/Business Intelligence system processing health care service data. My seasoned skills enabled me to provide PDSA (Plan, Do, Study, Act) for data management, database development, and analytical reporting (SQL Server 2005/2008, SSIS, SSRS, Oracle PL/SQL). My work involved analyzing, reporting, and developing recommendations on data, using multiple sources of data, analyzing trends, reconciling data, and identifying areas of improvement.

My detailed responsibilities:

Designed conceptual, logical and physical data model, and developed and supported analytic technologies.

Designed decision support system life cycle (SDLC).

Helped with gathering requirements and creation of Business Requirements Documents for multiple projects.

Development of a SharePoint 2007 library and its supporting, custom-designed workflow.

Acted as subject matter expert for Sales and Sales Support staff on sales applications and processes-

Designed, developed and tested an Access 2003 database to document and track corporate audit results.

Helped define and document functional requirements for other key reports.

Worked with the report developers to ensure defined requirements were met correctly and on-time.

Created ETL system (DTS) enabling integration of data from multiple hospital sources.

Perform data analysis based on business requirements and create user reports.

Produced daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly updates to reports.

Updated, maintained and documented databases as appropriate for project requirements.

Provided DBMS system change management.

Ensured accuracy of source data, and database and report content using SAS.

Optimized data integration and reporting process and procedures.

Monitored and maintain database system functionality.

Provided Technical support and training of management team.

Operating Systems: Windows Server 2003 & 2008, Windows XP, Windows 7, UNIX.

Middleware: IBM WebSphere MQ 7.0, IBM WebSphere Message Broker 7.0, Mirth Connect, Cloverleaf

Databases: Oracle, MS-SQL Server (T-SQL), DB2, Sybase 11.5

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, Java Script, HTML, SQL, ESQL, XML, TCL

EDUCATION INFORMATION

University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Computer Science/Information Technology

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