Welcome to Ovation Healthcare!
At Ovation Healthcare (formerly QHR Health), we’ve been making local healthcare better for more than 40 years. Our mission is to strengthen independent community healthcare. We provide independent hospitals and health systems with the support, guidance and tech-enabled shared services needed to remain strong and viable. With a strong sense of purpose and commitment to operating excellence, we help rural healthcare providers fulfill their missions.
The Ovation Healthcare difference is the extraordinary combination of operations experience and consulting guidance that fulfills our mission of creating a sustainable future for healthcare organizations. Ovation Healthcare’s vision is to be a dynamic, integrated professional services company delivering innovative and executable solutions through experience and thought leadership, while valuing trust, respect, and customer focused behavior.
We’re looking for talented, motivated professionals with a desire to help independent hospitals thrive. Working with Ovation Healthcare, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with highly skilled subject matter specialists and operations executives, in a collegial atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork.
Ovation Healthcare’s corporate headquarters is located in Brentwood, TN. For more information, visit www.ovationhc.com.
The Integration Engineer Lead directs the development and implementation of solutions for integrating software, hardware, or other systems across different parts of the organization. This position oversees administrative and technical procedures on information systems and covers multiple functional areas (systems design, systems and network administration, programmer/analyst, and information technology support). Working under no supervision, this role leads a team that focuses on ensuring that applications function seamlessly with business processes, organization data, and IT infrastructure.
The IT Integration Lead partners with business users, vendors, and IT staff to define the technical requirements, understand workflows, data flows, organizational infrastructure, utilizing principles and models that generally guide all integration solution decisions for their team. They are responsible for analyzing and translating business, information and technical requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions that integrate across applications, systems, and platforms leveraging IRIS for Health to achieve business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Leads the evaluation of systems' integration requirements to ensure that solutions meet organizational needs, often collaborating with internal and external subject matter experts.
- Approves the design and development of data transformation processes required to support integration between different systems.
- Identifies, troubleshoots, and resolves the most complex testing issues before launching a solution, guiding junior colleagues on simpler issues. Oversees the preparation of functional and technical documentation, such as testing procedures and schedules, data architecture mappings, and any applicable reports.
- Participate in developing plans, schedules, and requirements for the deployment and lifecycle of systems including current state, intermediate state, and future state diagrams.
- Integrate applications with Epic and other applications ensuring a seamless integration of new and existing systems to eliminate potential problems and maintain data structure and integrity.
- Participate in staff rounding, interviews, hiring, annual evaluations, and staff performance improvement plans.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Required: Functional knowledge of Integration Engine platforms (IRIS for Health, Cloverleaf, Rhapsody, CorePoint, etc.) with Epic EMR and other healthcare software applications leveraging various integration solutions (HL7 v2.x, FHIR, web services, APIs (REST, SOAP), file-based interfaces, ESB, JSON, XML/XSLT, etc.). Preferred: Practical experience architecting integration solutions in the Healthcare industry leveraging Epic as the foundational EMR application and Intersystems’ IRIS for Health. Experience with Epic Bridges, Epic Interconnect, Epic applications, Engine rules, Destination mapping, Chronicles adapters and imports/exports.
- An understanding of database/storage technologies.
- Working knowledge of project management, test automation, end-to-end testing, SDLC, Waterfall and Agile methods. Communicate and document project milestones to customers and other project team members.
- Participate in Clinical process design and optimization.
- Strong communication and team skills. Must be able to work with clinical and nonclinical end users, application teams, infrastructure, leadership, integrated testing, training, etc. Able to lead by driving task prioritization.
Work Experience, Education, and Certifications:
- Education Required: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field.
- Experience Required: 7+ years. Progressive experience in a combination of IT healthcare integration, development, design, and architecture disciplines. Minimum of 3 years of Epic application integration (HL7, FHIR, XML, flat file, Web services, REST), Interoperability, development experience, delivering quality scalable software on time, on budget, and in compliance with customer requirements. Preferred: 10+ years Integration Engine experience in a healthcare setting. Intersystems’ IRIS for Health experience
- Certification Required: Epic Bridges certification. Preferred: Epic Interconnect.
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