The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium is a non-profit Tribal health organization designed to meet the unique health needs of Alaska Native and American Indian people living in Alaska. In partnership with the more than 171,000 Alaska Native and American Indian people that we serve and the Tribal health organizations of the Alaska Tribal Health System, ANTHC provides world-class health services, which include comprehensive medical services at the Alaska Native Medical Center, wellness programs, disease research and prevention, rural provider training and rural water and sanitation systems construction.
ANTHC is the largest, most comprehensive Tribal health organization in the United States, and Alaska’s second-largest health employer with more than 3,100 employees offering an array of health services to people around the nation’s largest state.
Our vision: Alaska Native people are the healthiest people in the world.
ANTHC offers a competitive and comprehensive Benefits Package for all Benefit Eligible Employees, which includes:
- Medical Insurance provided through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program as a Tribal Employee, with over 20 plans and tiers.
- Cost-Share Dental and Vision Insurances
- Retirement Contributions with Pre-Tax or Roth options into a 403(b).
- 401(a) ANTHC Retirement Plan: After one year of employment, ANTHC will begin making matching contributions of up to 5% of your eligible pay, based on your own contributions. In addition, you may be eligible for an annual discretionary contribution of up to 3% from the employer.
- Paid Time Off starts immediately, earning up to 6 hours per pay period, with paid time off accruals increasing based on years of service.
- Paid Parental Leave or miscarriage/stillbirth eligibility after six months of employment
- Basic Short/Long Term Disability premiums, Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance, and Basic Life Insurance are covered 100% by ANTHC, with additional options for Short-Term Disability Buy-Up Coverage and Voluntary Life for yourself and your family members.
- Flexible Spending Accounts for Healthcare and Dependent Care.
- Ancillary Cash Benefits for accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness.
- On-Site Child Care Facility with expert-designed classrooms for early child development and preschool.
- Employee Assistance Program with support for grief, financial counseling, mental/emotional health, and discounted legal advice.
- Tuition Discounts for you and your eligible dependents at Alaska Pacific University.
- On-Site Training Courses and Professional Development Opportunities.
- License and certification reimbursements and occupational insurance for medical staff.
- Gym Access to Alaska Pacific University includes a salt water pool, rock climbing, workout gym, and steep discounts for outdoor equipment rentals.
- Emergency Travel Assistance
- Education Assistance or Education leave eligibility
- Discount program for travel, gym memberships, amusement parks, and more.
or contact Recruitment directly at HRRecruiting@anthc.org.
Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has a hiring preference for qualified Alaska Native and American Indian applicants pursuant to P.L. 93-638 Indian Self Determination Act.
Summary:
Under general direction combines deep technical and analytics skills with a sound understanding of how to deliver interface solutions to support and streamline critical clinical, financial and operational processes. Responsible for design, development, implementation, and support of strategic architectures of healthcare interfaces at all levels of the enterprise.
Responsibilities:
Leverages a broad understanding of the organization’s technical and interface environment to design, develop, test, and deploy interface solutions that meet the needs of the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) and our tribal health partners across the state of Alaska.
Provides technical leadership and frequently serves as the primary lead on multi-disciplinary efforts that involve developing new interfaces and/or enhancing existing interfaces.
Gathers, analyzes, and documents business, clinical, or regulatory requirements from stakeholders.
Develops, builds, and tests HL7 interfaces and associated interface security using technologies such as SSL, Public-Key encryption, and Certificates or other emerging security technologies.
Creates deliverables to automate key processes to support health care delivery.
Leads integration of software components, subsystems, facilities and services into the existing technical environment; assesses impact on other systems, and works as part of a team to ensure positive impact.
Produces or participates in documentation for end-user training and peer knowledge transfer.
Contributes to the development of standards, design and implementation of proactive processes to support and maintain a healthy interface environment with minimal downtime.
Adheres to and champions the use of ANTHC design principles and documentation standards.
Manages time effectively to meet project goals and timelines with competing priorities.
Works with team to track and monitor the entire interface portfolio; Provides mentoring and guidance to more junior level team members in interface technology, standards, and best practices.
Provides on call and after hours support coverage to maintain the production systems on a rotating basis.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Other information:
KNOWLEDGE and SKILLS
· Knowledge of HL7 standards.
· Knowledge of Openlink Interface Engine or other Interface Engine (Cloverleaf, CorePoint).
· Knowledge of project management.
· Knowledge of electronic medical systems (e.g., Epic and Cerner) desired.
· Knowledge of UNIX, and shell scripting desired.
· Knowledge of designing, implementing, and testing interfaces.
· Skill in problem solving.
· Skill in verbal and written communication.
· Skill in working and functioning in a multitasking environment.
· Skill in conveying and explaining complex technical data to non-technical customers.
· Skill in creating a positive team environment.
· Skill in working as part of multi-disciplinary project teams that include vendor technical representatives as well as non-technical subject matter experts.
· Skill in technical leadership, time management, communication and ability to work independently.
· Skill in two or more of the following interface standards; HL7 V2.x, HL7 V3, FHIR, CCDA, X.12.
· Skill in systems analysis, design, and computer application development using multiple languages.
· Skill in retrieving data from multiple platforms.
· Skill in database applications such as structured query language (SQL), Oracle, DB2.
· Skill in reporting and query tools including SQL.
MINIMUM EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
A Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology, Statistics, Analytics or business-related related field. Progressively responsible professional work-related experience as a Programmer/Analyst, interface developer, comparable education, or training may be substituted on a year-for-year basis for college education.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION
Non-supervisory – Seven (7) years professional work in software development, computer programming, or related area.
PREFERRED EDUCATION QUALIFICATION
· Master’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Technology, or related field.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE QUALIFICATION
· Two years working within a general healthcare environment.
· Experience building hospital interfaces to and from the Cerner Millennium electronic health record.
PREFERRED CERTIFICATION QUALIFICATION
Two or more certifications from the following list:
· HL7 V2.X
· HL7 FHIR
· HL7 CCD
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
· Depending on the needs of the organization , some incumbents in this job class may be required to obtain additional technical certifications and programming language skills.
