Kalispell Regional Medical Center
Kalispell, Montana

About the Organization:
Kalispell Regional Medical Center is home to the most comprehensive medical care in Northwest Montana.  We have 188 CMS certified beds in our inpatient facilities plus 110 licensed beds in our Long Term Care facility.  Although we added a new inpatient wing four years ago, our area is growing so quickly we have had to add a modular unit while in the process of designing and building another wing for patient care.  Our parent organization, Northwest HealthCare, brings together a wide variety of services under one umbrella.  This offers our patients outstanding continuity of care and our employees a wide range of opportunities.  Our services include a lovely and comfortable short stay surgical facility, an Oncology Cancer Treatment Center, a Breast Center, Diabetes Education, Cardiovascular Services, State-of-the-art Diagnostic Imaging, Chemical Dependency Treatment Center, Home Medical Equipment, and an award-winning community center for Health, Education and Fitness, just to name a few.  And our corporation, the largest private employer in Flathead County, has been recognized in the state of Montana for excellence in employee benefits.

About the Location:
Located in "Big Sky" country, Kalispell Regional Medical Center is close to Whitefish Mountain Ski Resort, Flathead Lake and Glacier National Park but far from "Big City" problems.  Sometimes called "The Last Best Place", Montana is home to majestic mountains, pristine lakes, open land, big sky, professional theater, local art and friendly people.  Our lifestyle acknowledges the importance of family and friends while offering opportunities for healthy and fun outdoor activities year round.  If you want this lifestyle for yourself or for your children, you can have it right outside your door.

About the Department:
Our Health Information Technology team not only implements hardware and software within our entire parent organization, but we also support over 48 physician offices and several small rural hospitals, with a WAN that stretches 180 miles North/South and 260 miles East/West.  Our main HCIS is Client Server MEDITECH 5.5 SR2 but we also support over 250 other applications, such as MedHOST, Formfast, Softmed, McKesson, Vista Keane, DR PACS, Kronos, LSS, ANSOS, Impac and eClinicalWorks just to name a few.  Northwest Healthcare has approximately 1800 employees.  Another 500 or so outside users connect to us for support of any of those 250 applications.  At any time there can be over 2000-3000 connections accessing our network resources.  Our director is a leader in our state for building an infrastructure for an Electronic Health Information project and is currently working on a large grant proposal for that project.  We currently have 5 applications specialists, 4 network analysts, 2 customer support specialists, an interface engineer, and 5 technical support specialists.  The applications group has offices in the hospital and the technical staff are in a separate building, but we maintain our family atmosphere with monthly barbecues, employee birthday treats and a summer day event at Bitteroot Lake.  We love to laugh hard and work hard.  Our applications group is currently implementing the OR Module at a small rural hospital as well as assisting in several eClinicalWorks implementations.  We just brought our Emergency Department LIVE with MedHOST in April with full orders integration and are working on a charge and discrete data interface at this time.  We are looking forward to implementing an "overlay" so that anyone within our system can look at patient data no matter which application was used to enter the data.  Our H.I.T. mission is to provide an integrated Health Care Information Solution and continuum of Patient Care to all of NWHC and subsidiaries, utilizing current technology in a secured environment.

Current Position(s) Available:

Integration Developer
Permanent, Full-Time

Description:
The Integration Developer will plan, create, implement, document and maintain interfaces among multiple disparate healthcare and related information systems.

• Code, test, and implement data conversion for migrations to new software.
• Maintains project timelines, manage day to day troubleshooting, and provides appropriate policies and procedures regarding interfaces.
• Works with various departments and other organizations to identify project parameters and output requirements.
• Provides research on new technology, performs required system maintenance by applying fixes and updates to current software.
• In-depth understanding of software development methodologies and software lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and a minimum of 3 years of healthcare integration experience.
• Must have strong healthcare integration experience including:
  • Substantive experience with existing healthcare integration engines such as SeeBeyond dGate, eGate.
  • Extensive interface coding language experience
  • Detailed knowledge of HL7 2.x/3.0 standard with demonstrated ability.
  • Extensive knowledge of both structured and non-structured clinical data formats (ADT, labs, clinical notes, etc.)
  • Strong expertise in standard healthcare code-sets (ICD-9/10, SNOMED, LOINC, etc.)
• MEDITECH experience preferred, including NPR
• Must have strong general software development skills:
  • Strong PERL programming skills
  • Visual Basic and C++
  • Good MySQL or other DBMS knowledge
  • Comfortable working within UNIX Solaris, Linux, and Microsoft operating systems
• Strong, demonstrated problem-solving skills

How to Apply:
To apply for this Job, please email your resume to Human Resources and reference job "Integration Developer".