Job Description

Company: Lantana Consulting Group provides services and software for standards-based health-information exchange. We have established ourselves as a trusted leader in the industry with two decades of expertise in developing and deploying technical specifications and interoperability solutions. As a rapidly growing distributed, employee-owned company, we hire exceptional talent nationwide and offer flexible remote work arrangements. We take pride in our mission to improve public health and quality of care and to advance research.

Primary purpose: Develops, coordinates, and maintains standards-based solutions, technical artifacts for quality-measurement reporting for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and Implementation Guides (IGs) for Fast Healthcare Interoperability Standards (FHIR) and Clinical Document Architecture (CDA). Leads external-facing discussions regarding CMS standards updates including CDA QRDA I and III, various Health Level Seven International (HL7) and non-HL7 IGs, Clinical Reasoning standards, and related activities such as planning HL7 and CMS FHIR Connectathons.

A successful candidate will do the following:

• Participate in the technical development of FHIR and CDA IGs: lead public coordination calls to gather requirements, develop IGs, ballot, and publish through the HL7 and Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) communities
• Discuss and support coordination of supplemental tooling for quality measures, related applications (such as MADiE), and artifacts (such as CQL-to-ELM Translator and GUID Extractor)
• Lead technical topics on public HL7 Work Group calls
• Support solution design and implementation using existing APIs and other existing data-exchange solutions from electronic health record (EHR) vendors, public-health systems, and intermediaries
• Survey existing standards; identify opportunities for re-use and areas that need novel artifacts
• Contribute to internal and public-facing standards-based papers, presentations, blogs, and memos
• Serve as subject-matter expert for internal business-development activities

• Associate's degree or higher in Healthcare, Health Informatics, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field
• Fifteen (15) years of relevant experience in healthcare, health IT, or related field
• Experience implementing health IT solutions
• Methodical, organized analytical skills to translate data requirements into formal standards requirements (such as FHIR or CDA)
• Proficiency with HL7 standards, including CDA and FHIR

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with CMS quality-measurement programs and measures
• Experience validating clinical data
• Experience developing, evaluating, and implementing digital quality measures (dQMs)
• Experience with Clinical Quality Language (CQL)
• Experience working in a health-IT vendor setting (such as EHRs, medical devices, or healthcare interface engines)
• Experience working with EHR-structured data and APIs
• Proficiency applying XML Schema, XSLT transforms, and Schematron knowledge
• HL7 certification in CDA or FHIR

Additional information:

• We are a remote organization, but we prioritize in-person collaboration during key events such as our annual company meeting.
• We are an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, pregnancy, genetic information, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected category under applicable federal, state, and local laws.
• For this position, the candidate must reside in the United States.

Compensation details: 110000-130000 Yearly Salary

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