Josh Akins
Tuscaloosa,AL
Summary
Experienced EMR and Corepoint development team member skilled at creating, testing, implementing, and optimizing HL7 messaging solutions based on customer requirements and vendor specifications. I am seeking opportunities to both grow and apply my interoperability knowledge of integrating health information system data.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Interface Analyst I
DCH Healthcare Authority
09.2021 - Current
- Responsible for creation and maintenance of 167 Corepoint connections.
- Attained Corepoint Training in DataBases and Web Services. Still very green concepts.
- Continued skill building for medium to advanced HL7 logic construction.
- Learning an entirely new EMR, Meditech Expanse.
Content Specialist/ EDI support
Afflink
06.2020 - 09.2021
- Facilitated the ShopFront customer experience through the management of retail items to include descriptions, images, and SDS materials
- Provided excellent customer service and tech support for the ShopFront e-Commerce platform
- Monitored EDI message transfers between customers, suppliers, and distributors.
IT Application Specialist
Brookwood Baptist Health
03.2015 - 06.2020
- Corepoint Administrator responsible for the creation and maintenance of over 210 connections. Level 2 Corepoint Administrator in charge of: A2 failover, development environment, and notifications for critical systems. Connection responsibilities included 3rd party vendors and multiple EMR systems, including Epic, Cerner, State, and Federal Health record-keeping platforms such as Community Health, Vaccination Registry, and the CDC.
- Epic Bridges Administrator with extensive knowledge of Epic's internal HL7 application Bridges. Responsibilities include orders, charges, solicited and unsolicited results, and financials.
- GoAnywhere Administrator responsible for SFTP/FTP/SSH file transfers for Hospital Billing, Professional Clinic Billing, Insurance Claim/Remittance transportation, Payroll Submission, PressGaney surveys, and a host of inter-office and intra-facility file transports.
- Connected EMR/HL7 messaging through Corepoint and Bridges to 5 Hospital Systems, and over 200+ Clinics.
Interface Analyst I
DCH Healthcare Authority
08.2014 - 03.2015
- Responsible for the creation and maintenance of 95 Corepoint connections
- Attained Corepoint Level 1 and 2 training and attended Corepoint Connect
- Optimized connections by rebuilding Action List Logic with a focus on ease of troubleshooting
- Building inter-application communications so that other systems could use our ADT/ORU/ORM/MDM/DFT HL7 Messages to update electronic health records.
Information Systems Technician I
DCH Healthcare Authority
10.2013 - 08.2014
- Primary and often only IS Operations and Help Desk representative for the weekend shift.
- Improved Operational processes by creating and adjusting existing support and knowledge base documentation to accurately reflect new procedures and current processes.
- Managed critical backup system information via serverless, Cloud, and SANS backups cataloging tape inventories and storing media for use with HIPPA best practices.
- Applied security protocols as per health system standards for the retention and access to private healthcare information (PHI) using password resets and document access changes.
EEG Technician
Dothan Pediatric Clinic
11.2008 - 08.2013
- Set up and performed Pediatric EEGs ages 6 months to 18 years of age with standard 10-20 lead placement
- Handled the most extreme cases for EEG study from PDDs, Autism, Mental Retardations, Fragile X, Down's and Tourette's Syndrome
- Interacted with children in a manner that gives them a sense of calm and security, as they were briefed on the test and EEG procedure.
Medicaid/Insurance Advisor
Dothan Pediatric Clinic
03.2007 - 11.2008
- Verified eligibility and coordinated benefits for patients
- Acted as the main point of contact for pre-certs and ensuring active coverage and patient is paying their benefits as contracted
- Responsible for patient relations concerning insurance and clinic balances
- Collected over $10,000.00 in missed revenue three consecutive months.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Faulkner University
Montgomery, AL09.1998
Skills
- HL7 interfaces - Corepoint Platform
- Meditech NMI
- Epic Bridges
- Troubleshooting Logic
- FTP - GoAnywhere Platform
- FTP - Automate
- Project management
- Interoperability: Foundational, Structural, and Semantic
Certification
Corepoint Interoperability Engine Levels I and II
Epic Bridges Certification 2019
Epic Sphinx 2020
Timeline
Interface Analyst I
DCH Healthcare Authority
09.2021 - Current
Content Specialist/ EDI support
Afflink
06.2020 - 09.2021
IT Application Specialist
Brookwood Baptist Health
03.2015 - 06.2020
Interface Analyst I
DCH Healthcare Authority
08.2014 - 03.2015
Information Systems Technician I
DCH Healthcare Authority
10.2013 - 08.2014
EEG Technician
Dothan Pediatric Clinic
11.2008 - 08.2013
Medicaid/Insurance Advisor
Dothan Pediatric Clinic
03.2007 - 11.2008
Bachelor of Arts - Business Administration
Faulkner University
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