Healthcare Integration Consultant

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Healthcare Integration Consultant ( SME – CCDA and FHIR)

Key Responsibilities

1. CCDA & FHIR Data Expertise

• Lead ingestion, parsing, and transformation of CCDA and FHIR resources into enterprise data platforms or Clinical Data Repositories (CDRs).
  
• Map, normalize, and validate CCDA elements such as encounters, allergies, medications, and immunizations to FHIR resources.
  

2. Data Integration & Loading

• Design and implement scalable pipelines to load structured and semi-structured healthcare data (CCDA, FHIR, HL7) into target systems.
  
• Work closely with Data Engineering teams to ensure optimal ingestion workflows and performance.
  

3. Data Quality & Validation

• Define validation rules and perform conformance testing for FHIR and CCDA payloads.
  
• Ensure adherence to interoperability standards, clinical data governance guidelines, and regulatory compliance.
  

4. Collaboration & SME Support

• Collaborate with product, engineering, and clinical informatics teams to define data models, mapping strategies, and workflows.
  
• Lead troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and resolution of data ingestion and transformation issues.
  
• Stay updated on HL7 standards, US Core FHIR requirements, and ONC interoperability regulations.
  

Required Skills & Qualifications

• 8–15 years of experience in healthcare data integration, interoperability, or clinical data management.
  
• Strong hands-on experience with CCDA parsing, validation, mapping, and ingestion.
  
• Deep understanding of FHIR resource structures, US Core profiles, and RESTful API integrations.
  
• Experience working with FHIR servers (e.g., HAPI FHIR, InterSystems IRIS, etc.).
  
• Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, or data transformation tools such as Informatica, Talend, Dataflow, or Spark.
  
• Familiarity with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure and their healthcare data services.
  
• Solid knowledge of healthcare interoperability standards including HL7, CCD, C-CDA, and FHIR.
  
• Strong understanding of HIPAA, PHI handling, and healthcare data security best practices.
  
• Excellent analytical skills, documentation capabilities, and communication skills.