Epidemiologist

Job Description

Job Summary:

• The Client is currently recruiting an Epidemiologist to assist in the coordination of communicable disease informatics related projects as a part of the Surveillance Systems and Informatics (SSI) Program within the Communicable and Environmental Disease and Emergency Preparedness (CEDEP) Division.
• This position will serve as an ELR Specialist for the SSI Program.
• The epidemiologist will support REDCap (Research Electronic Data Capture), Electronic Lab Reporting (ELR), and other SSI informatics projects and initiatives.
• As a member of the SSI Program, this individual will get exposure and experience in the use and development of interoperability standards, like HL7, and will have the opportunity to work on a wide range of informatics projects including system integration.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Complete ELR onboarding using HL7 2.5.1 standards
• Provide input on and manage various production monitoring tasks including alerts, dashboard development and maintenance, and issue identification.
• Complete investigation of ELR processing issues independently and identify proposed solutions.
• Work collaboratively with Rhapsody developers to enhance existing routes or define new routes for ELR processing.
• Assist with processing of laboratory data submitted via our alternate file format (i.e., flat file).
• Coordinate routine and ad hoc management of standard interoperability vocabulary within the disease surveillance system.
• Act as liaison to downstream users of ELR data within TDH and CEDEP.
• Support other ELR maintenance tasks (e.g parallel validation, LOINC code assignments, and production errors).

Desired Qualifications:

• Work experience with ELR onboarding and/or maintenance at a state or local health department, 1-3 years.
• Work experience with Rhapsody or working to define specifications for Rhapsody developers, 1-3 years.
• Experience writing statistical and analytical programming code in SAS,SQL, or R.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects.