Civil Service Title: Computer Systems Manager
Proposed Salary Range: $49,492.00 - $81,903.00 (Annual)
Work Location: 42-09 28th Street, Long Island City, NY
Division/Work Unit: IT Solutions and Delivery
Job Description: The Informatics Unit is an innovative operational unit within the Bureau of Informatics and Development responsible for implementation activities and strategic planning of large scale city-wide critical systems and infrastructure including NYC Syndromic Surveillance Reporting. The Unit liaises and coordinates with NYC hospital electronic medical records IT staff to implement upgrades and enhancements for data quality and timeliness of syndromic reporting. In addition, NYC DOHMH is taking on a new initiative to integrate with CDC’s BioSense system in order to track syndromic data and response activities across jurisdictions. The Syndromic Surveillance Informatics Manager, under the direction of the Director of Informatics and Data Services, with great latitude for independent thinking, will be responsible for implementing and overseeing the following activities:
• Act as the main IT point of contact with NYC area hospitals regarding transmission of syndromic surveillance data and meeting Meaningful Use requirements.
• Work with NYC Hospital EDs to implement syndromic reporting for those that are currently not reporting.
• Liaise with NYC-area hospitals to implement electronic reporting of syndromic surveillance emergency department data from non-standard methods to standard HL7 formats consistent with Meaningful Use.
• Coordinate transition of data transmission of ED data to HL7 standards that are consistent with Meaningful Use requirements, including work with BCD Syndromic staff to test new HL7 file data quality and timeliness, as compared to existing methods.
• Possess strong analytic skills along with the technical skills needed to work with large data systems and strong working knowledge of SAS (SAS eBI 9.2, Proc SQL, Macros) and SQL (Database server Application), is required. Ability to program in capacity in SSRS or ability to learn SSRS is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge working with HL7 messages and HL7 parsing tools as well as XML messages and XML framework.
• Identify data quality issues independently or in coordination with BCD Syndromic Surveillance unit.
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues with interruptions in reporting from NYC hospitals to DOHMH.
• Escalate reporting issues to Informatics and BCD Syndromic Surveillance unit.
• Work with NYC hospitals to improve data quality and timeliness of syndromic ED reports.
• In coordination with DIIT technical staff and BCD Syndromic data analysts, design a central database for syndromic ED data.
• Investigate methods to electronically submit data to BioSense.
• In coordination with DIIT application developers and BioSense technical team, design a method to report NYC Syndromic ED data to BioSense.
• Ability to utilize Geographic Information Systems tools (GIS) such as ESRI and ArcGIS Server to assist surveillance programs to map ELR data.
• Examine other electronic data sources linked to syndromic surveillance and identify methods to improve data quality.
• Use knowledge of syndromic surveillance to collaborate with colleagues on various data matching and surveillance projects.
• Escalate reporting issues to Director of Informatics and DOHMH surveillance programs as necessary.
• In addition, the Syndromic Surveillance Informatics Manager will prepare presentations, manuscripts, and reports describing initiatives, systems, methodologies and results as well as participate and represent DOHMH in conferences, meetings and seminars.
For complete information regarding Minimum Qualification Requirements and Preferred Skills, visit the full Job Posting on the NYC Gov Careers Site.
To Apply:
Apply online with a cover letter to https://a127-jobs.nyc.gov/. In the Job ID search bar, enter: job ID number #113535.• Work with NYC Hospital EDs to implement syndromic reporting for those that are currently not reporting.
• Liaise with NYC-area hospitals to implement electronic reporting of syndromic surveillance emergency department data from non-standard methods to standard HL7 formats consistent with Meaningful Use.
• Coordinate transition of data transmission of ED data to HL7 standards that are consistent with Meaningful Use requirements, including work with BCD Syndromic staff to test new HL7 file data quality and timeliness, as compared to existing methods.
• Possess strong analytic skills along with the technical skills needed to work with large data systems and strong working knowledge of SAS (SAS eBI 9.2, Proc SQL, Macros) and SQL (Database server Application), is required. Ability to program in capacity in SSRS or ability to learn SSRS is a plus.
• Extensive knowledge working with HL7 messages and HL7 parsing tools as well as XML messages and XML framework.
• Identify data quality issues independently or in coordination with BCD Syndromic Surveillance unit.
• Identify, troubleshoot and resolve issues with interruptions in reporting from NYC hospitals to DOHMH.
• Escalate reporting issues to Informatics and BCD Syndromic Surveillance unit.
• Work with NYC hospitals to improve data quality and timeliness of syndromic ED reports.
• In coordination with DIIT technical staff and BCD Syndromic data analysts, design a central database for syndromic ED data.
• Investigate methods to electronically submit data to BioSense.
• In coordination with DIIT application developers and BioSense technical team, design a method to report NYC Syndromic ED data to BioSense.
• Ability to utilize Geographic Information Systems tools (GIS) such as ESRI and ArcGIS Server to assist surveillance programs to map ELR data.
• Examine other electronic data sources linked to syndromic surveillance and identify methods to improve data quality.
• Use knowledge of syndromic surveillance to collaborate with colleagues on various data matching and surveillance projects.
• Escalate reporting issues to Director of Informatics and DOHMH surveillance programs as necessary.
• In addition, the Syndromic Surveillance Informatics Manager will prepare presentations, manuscripts, and reports describing initiatives, systems, methodologies and results as well as participate and represent DOHMH in conferences, meetings and seminars.
For complete information regarding Minimum Qualification Requirements and Preferred Skills, visit the full Job Posting on the NYC Gov Careers Site.
To Apply:
Posting Date: 11/26/2012
Post Until: Until Filled
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