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Texas Department of State Health Services · 2 days ago

NBS Health Informatics Specialist

Austin, TX

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$5,425.33/mo - $7,405/mo

2+ years exp

The Texas Department of State Health Services is committed to public health and is seeking a skilled NBS Health Informatics Specialist. This role involves performing senior-level health informatics work, data analysis, and research on electronic lab reporting to ensure data quality and integrity.

Health Care

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Analyzes ELR and eICR data using standard statistical tools (such as SAS), methods, and techniques. Compiles and queries ELR and eICR data. Identifies data gaps, errors, anomalies, inconsistencies, and redundancies by analyzing the content, structure, and relationships with data. Interprets results to identify significant differences in lab or eICR data. Identifies and interprets data patterns and trends and assesses data quality. Cleans and prunes data to discard irrelevant information. Performs quality assurance and serves as subject matter expert on data integrity, extraction, and compilation. Conducts data integration (e.g., matching/merging records across complex data sources)

Performs onboarding activities, including screening, validation, and training for eligible hospitals and laboratories seeking to report to local and regional health departments via Texas NEDSS. Performs review and analyses of raw HL7 messages to identify data validity issues. Serves as subject matter expert on correct application of LOINC and SNOMED to ELR messages. Performs consultative work to convey detailed error analyses to submitters

Consults with internal program areas within DSHS (Lab, Blood Lead Team, Cancer Registry, HIV/STD, and Emerging and Acute Infectious Disease), and external customers such as private and commercial laboratories, hospitals, and physician’s offices to identify user needs. Prepares concise, comprehensive technical reports to present and interpret data, identify alternatives, and make and justify recommendations on data revisions

Assists NBS technical team in defining, developing, and implementing data standards for accurate electronic data submission. Assists NBS Systems Analysts and NBS epidemiologists in developing data quality measures, analyzing data quality results, and implementing necessary changes to ensure ELR data quality improvement. Assists in developing software applications or programming within NBS to use for statistical modeling and graphic analysis on ELR data and lab testing. Contributes to maintaining updated Texas ELR Onboarding Guidelines, Texas ELR Implementation Guidelines, and Texas eICR Onboarding Guidelines

Develops and implements databases, data collection systems, data analytics, and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality

Other duties as assigned include but are not limited to actively participating and/or serving in a supporting role to meet the agency’s obligation for disaster response and/or recovery of Continuity of Operations (COOP) activation. Such participation may require an alternative shift pattern assignment and/or location

Qualification

SASSQLHL7 messagingData analysisPublic health informaticsData quality measuresMultitaskingCritical thinkingEffective communicationLeadership

Required

MPH with two (2) years of experience in applied public health

Experience with electronic data exchange nomenclature (e.g., HL7, LOINC, SNOMED-CT)

Experience with relational databases in manipulating, analyzing and visualizing data sets

Experience using analytic software SAS

Experience with SQL language

Benefits

Insurance coverage and other benefits available through the State of Texas Group Benefits Plan administered by the Employee Retirement System of Texas (ERS)

Company

Texas Department of State Health Services

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Texas Department of State Health Services focuses on public health to promote and protect the health of Texans & their communities.

Founded in 2015

Austin, Texas, USA

1001-5000 employees

https://www.dshs.texas.gov/

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