This role is responsible for analyzing HL7 messages with the purpose of producing actionable insights to support the provider portal, CMS electronic Clinical Quality Measures, population health reporting, and meeting downstream stakeholder requirements. The candidate will have a deep understanding of HL7 messaging standards and their application in health care integrations.
This role will be responsible for engaging health care organizations to lead interface implementations, communicating interface requirements, and independently performing analysis of the incoming data from a variety of EHR vendors in HL7 formats such as V2, V3, FHIR, and flat file extracts. The HL7 Data Analyst will work with developers to convey HL7 field transformation requirements, construct the test plans and perform the testing to ensure the health care workflows and the data exchanged will support data quality improvements and new interface development.
The VITL HL7 Data Analyst will have experience using HL7spy, Caristix, or other HL7 tools to evaluate clinical data for anomalies and patterns. The analyst must possess the following desired health care IT skills including:
- Solid understanding of HL7 transactions for V2 and V3 and field transformations
- Fluent in mapping HL7 to FHIR according to published standards
- In depth knowledge of EHR clinical workflows and HL7 Interface development impacts.
- Solid understanding of health care data standards and regulatory requirements
- Experience working with developers and health care organizations to convey requirements
- Proficient in HL7Spy or similar tools
- Excellent analytical skills applied to validation of message transformation and test plan construction
- Expertise in working with JSON and XML messages
- Knowledge of claims
The HL7 Data Analyst exercises responsibilities and skills at SFIA level 4 (Skills Framework for the Information Age).
Primary Responsibilities
- Acts as lead analyst on all phases of a project; from scoping and design through implementation and transition to Support
- Lead client-facing requirement and solutioning sessions to meet HL7 inbound interface exchange
- Maintain regular communication with client, vendor, and team members regarding project issues, risks, and needs
- Perform independent analysis on inbound HL7 V2, V3, FHIR, and flat file extracts, and document necessary transformations to meet requirements
- Create test plans and validate data transformations in the Rhapsody Integration engine to test HL7 interfaces
- Test changes in the data (both planned and unplanned) to determine the impact on customers
- Identify gaps in new and existing data and data discrepancies, and work with developers on transformation and mapping logic
- Communicate with developers the requirements, transformations, and create the technical documentation
- Code set mapping from local source values to FHIR standard values
- Analyze and troubleshoot data quality issues with HL7 transactions and FHIR DB storage
- Explore and derive insights from high volumes of HL7data to ensure accuracy, completeness, reliability, relevance
- Perform data analysis on patient demographic data to support improved patient matching
- Independently conduct analysis and field mapping on data from potential new data sources under consideration to assess integration into the FHIR database
- Collaborate closely with a team of Interface developers, management, and database programmers, and report analyst to ensure interfaces are built to meet specific requirements and delivered with quality and on time
- Partner with developers to implement testing automation
- Create tickets to vendors for data processing issues that require changes to support the HL7 message processing and storage in FHIR
- Perform troubleshooting and provide subject matter expertise related to VHIE maintenance, operations, and client production support
Required Skills
- In depth knowledge of HL7 V2 ADT, VXU, ORU, ELR, V3 CCDA, Claims, and FHIR data standards and transactions. This is a core skill for this position.
- Knowledge of health care interoperability including CDS Hooks, SMART on FHIR, & APIs.
- Knowledge of IHE general principles and profiles
- Solid understanding of the use of value sets (VSAC) and USCDI
- Solid understanding of patient identity and patient matching algorithms
- Deep understanding of operational and clinical EHR workflows
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills to allow for effective communication at any level
- Self-directed person with the desire to learn
- Ability to collaborate and work well with others
- Ability to deliver quality work reliably and consistently on target dates
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel and other Microsoft Office products
- Critical thinking, creative problem solving, and attention to detail
- Strong communication, facilitation, documentation, and presentation skills
- Experience in project management and business analysis
- Results driven
- Knowledge of software development life cycle (SDLC) processes and Agile Methodology
Supervision Received
This position reports to VITL’s Director of Operations.
Supervision Exercised
This position has no supervisory requirements.
Job Impact
- Work performed in this position impacts all VITL employees and their work impacts thousands of users of VITL services across the entire state of Vermont and into bordering states.
- Timeline of work assigned varies from hours for routine tasks to months for more complex projects.
- The job impact of the HL7 Data Analyst is centered on ensuring that complex healthcare data exchanged between EHR systems is accurate, usable, and aligned with national interoperability standards so it can directly support clinical, operational, and population health outcomes.
- This role has a direct impact on the quality and reliability of healthcare data across the Vermont Health Information Exchange (VHIE) by translating raw HL7, FHIR, and related clinical messages into validated, standardized, and actionable data. That work enables downstream systems such as provider portals, CMS quality reporting, and population health analytics to function correctly and produce trustworthy insights used in patient care and regulatory reporting.
- The position also plays a key role in enabling successful healthcare integrations between VITL and external organizations, ensuring that interface implementations meet technical and clinical requirements. By identifying data issues, defining transformation logic, and validating interfaces, the analyst helps prevent data gaps, mismatches, and workflow disruptions that could affect care delivery or reporting accuracy.
- The role’s impact is to strengthen interoperability, improve data quality, and ensure that clinical information can be reliably exchanged and interpreted across systems, ultimately supporting better-informed healthcare decisions and compliance with federal and state requirements.
Key Competencies
- The key competencies of the HL7 Data Analyst position center on deep healthcare interoperability expertise combined with strong analytical, technical, and stakeholder-facing capabilities to ensure accurate and meaningful clinical data exchange.
- A core competency is expert-level knowledge of healthcare data standards and interoperability, including HL7 v2/v3, FHIR, CCDA, claims data, and related implementation guides. This includes the ability to map, transform, and validate clinical data across formats while ensuring alignment with national standards such as USCDI and value sets (VSAC), as well as understanding EHR workflows and how they affect data exchange.
- The role also requires strong technical data analysis and engineering skills, including working with JSON/XML, integration engines (such as Rhapsody), and tools like HL7Spy or Caristix. This includes writing and validating test plans, troubleshooting interface issues, identifying data anomalies, and supporting FHIR-based data storage and queries.
- A major competency is interface implementation and solution design leadership, including translating requirements between healthcare organizations and technical teams, defining transformation logic, and ensuring successful end-to-end integration delivery across multiple systems and stakeholders.
- Equally important are advanced problem-solving and data quality skills, with the ability to analyze large volumes of clinical data, detect inconsistencies, support patient matching logic, and ensure completeness, accuracy, and reliability of health information.
- The role depends heavily on strong communication and collaboration skills, including leading client-facing sessions, documenting technical requirements clearly, coordinating across developers and healthcare organizations, and supporting production troubleshooting.
- The position requires independent execution, project ownership, and process discipline, ensuring timely delivery, testing rigor, and alignment with healthcare regulatory and security requirements.
- Personal qualities of integrity, credibility and commitment to VITL’s mission are required
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field of work
- HL7 V2 certification or comparable experience
- CCDA certification or comparable experience
- FHIR certification or comparable experience
- Previous healthcare experience is required (5 years)
- Minimum 5 years as an HL7 interface analyst
- Hands on testing of HL7 V2, CCDA, and FHIR messages is critical
- Experience with HL7 Implementation Guides and CDC public health Implementation Guides
- Use of HL7 spy, Caristix, or other HL7 analyst tools
- Performs FHIR queries using tools such as Postman
- Integration engine experience is necessary, Rhapsody Integration a plus
- Smartsheet, SharePoint, Salesforce, and Jira experience a plus
Additional
VITL is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination or harassment of any kind. We are committed to compliance with all applicable fair employment practices laws and a policy of equal opportunity without regard to race, gender, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, place of birth, crime victim status, ancestry, physical or mental condition, disability, pregnancy, citizenship or immigration status, status as a veteran, military service or obligation, a positive test result from an HIV-related blood test, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by such laws (“Protected Characteristics”). VITL’s policy of anti-discrimination applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to recruiting, hiring, training, compensation, benefits, advancement, and termination of employment. VITL prohibits and does not tolerate discrimination against any employee, applicant, worker, or service provider on the basis of any Protected Characteristic.
Apply
Interested candidates may submit a resume and cover letter to [email protected]; please include “HL7 Data Analyst” in the subject line of your email.
Pay: $110,000.00 - $115,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Family leave
- Flexible schedule
- Flexible spending account
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Retirement plan
- Vision insurance
- Work from home
Work Location: Remote
