Remote Public Health Data Informatics Specialist

Summary

Join DRT Strategies and become part of a team that delivers expert management consulting and IT solutions to large federal agencies, the U.S. Navy, state and local government, and commercial clients in health care, technology, and financial services industries.

Requirements

• Must have or be able to obtain a Public Trust with the US federal government
• Knowledge of data standards including HL7, CDA, FHIR, and OMOP, as well as clinical terminologies and vocabularies including Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC), Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms (SNOMED-CT)
• Experience working with infectious disease laboratory data epidemiological case data, and/or environmental health data, including data processing and analytics
• Experience developing and implementing health informatics standards in clinical systems or public health surveillance systems
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Responsibilities

• Participate in the planning, development, and revision of public health data models and architectures
• Create clinical, laboratory, and epidemiological data architecture flows, data models, and map disparate data models to interoperable HL7 data models
• Participate in meetings and contributes to the technical design and solutioning of public health surveillance systems
• Recommends solutions to meet public health surveillance requirements using past experience and research findings
• Conduct work in an agile manner with regular status updates on progress and blockers
• Research and recommend improvements to existing data structures
• Completes tasks on time with minimal supervision but supports collaboration across teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of public health data and related privacy requirements (HIPAA, PII, etc.)
• Recent experience with HHS data to include the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) environment and standards: SDLC, technical architecture, release processes
• Experience with Agile and DevOps methodologies

Benefits

Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO)