SENTHIL KUMAR

skpd30@gmail.com
732-715-2626
CANDIDATE SUMMARY CAREER OVERVIEW
 13+ years of Healthcare IT experience  Certified Rhapsody Professional with 13 plus years of extensive experience focusing on
Healthcare IT Industry
 Certifications:
 Strong experience on interacting directly with Clinicians, Radiologist, Pathologist, and
 Lyniate Rhapsody 6.5 Professional
Hospital management and support staff to demonstrate the Solution / Application
 Epic Bridges Certified
 FHIR Fundamentals by HL7 India  Significant involvement in multiple HIS products/application testing
 Trained on Consolidated CDA 2.1 and  Worked on various state(ME, NJ, TX & CO) projects
C-CDA on FHIR  Wide range of experience in Project Management, Data mapping, Data validation,
 API Design and Fundamentals of Building Interfaces between multiple Healthcare applications
Google Cloud's APIGEE API Platform
WORK EXPERIENCE
 Experience & Expertise:
State Of Colorado June 2022 – Present
 All scripts PEHR
Rhapsody Developer
 Touch Works HER
 All scripts PM and MiSYS  Built interfaces to receive data of various formats like HL7 V2.x and Flat files from
Tiger application multiple hospitals and labs
 Orion/Lyniate Rhapsody  Built routes and automated them on Rhapsody interface engine to send Covid-19 data to
 Mirth Connect CDC
 AIE  Worked with CDPHE communicable disease epidemiologists, and CEDRS application
 Epic Bridges
specialists to coordinate and create schedules and application interfaces to exchange
 Iguana and MiSYS interface control
data using HL7, Flat Files and XML’s
 Immunization Registry
 Worked with CDPHE eLR Co-Ordinator to onboarding new facilities for electronic
 e-Prescribing, e-Referral
 CQMs, PQRS, Lab reporting for COVID-19
 Syndromic Surveillance, ELR,  Worked with APHL team to build interface via AIMS Platform using the Amazon S3 in
Specialty Registry rhapsody for eCR data
 Received eCR data in simplified xml’s from AIMS and consume them in our database
 Additional Technical Experience: Which is used by epidemiologists using Rhapsody interface engine
 AIX, Windows server  Monitored interfaces on daily basis in Management Console and fix the errors if any
2003/2008/2012/2016/2019, Azure  Built the interpartner connection with FL state via AIMS platform using Rhapsody
 JavaScript, SQL, XML, JSON,
Interface Engine and share any FL state patient data treated in CO state and vice versa
HTML, Python (HL7.APY), API, Git
 HL7 v2.x, EDI, FHIR, CDA, CCDA, Elevance Health (formerly known as Anthem Inc.) June 2021 – June 2022
SOAP, TCP/IP, Restful API Interoperability Consultant
 Attended daily scrum meetings and provide status updates on the current projects
PROFESSIONAL  Attended Kick off Call with Provider Groups and Anthem team members to understand
ORGANIZATIONS Anthem derived Consolidated Clinical Data Architecture(C-CDA) and Flat File
specifications
 State of Colorado  Created requests for Secure File Transfer connections between Anthem and Provider
 Elevance Health Groups to exchange files
 State of Texas  Maintained the daily, weekly, and monthly operations of transporting C-CDA and Flat File
 New Jersey Department of Health messages between Anthem and Provider Groups
 State of Maine CDC
 Performed section wise analysis on the CCDA files shared by Provider Groups
 Primera Healthcare
 Identified modifications needed in CCDA files after validation and share the error report
 Sutherland Healthcare Solutions
with provider groups
 Provided CCDA expertise to identify and resolve causes of CCDA validation errors
 Performed multiple iterations of flat file data validation and report the errors to back to
the sources
 Created Interface configuration document to build specific interfaces in Infor Cloverleaf
Elevance Health (formerly known as Anthem Inc.) June 2021 – June 2022 Interoperability
Consultant
 Performed critical field checks using Cloverleaf tool and report the findings to provider groups
 Attended bi-weekly status calls with provider groups and anthem team

State of Texas October 2020 – April 2021

Support Services
 Used Rhapsody interface engine, provide reports on the lab files sent to the state of Texas
 Worked on updating the CLIA numbers in lookup tables which were shown in the error queue
 Monitored the error queue in Rhapsody management console on daily basis
 Fixed the errors, reprocess/reinject the messages shown in the error queue
 Attended the meetings and provide updates on the error queue and work done

New Jersey Department of Health July 2019 – October 2020

Rhapsody Developer
 Deployed Orion Rhapsody Interface Engine to the government-furnished User Acceptance Test (UAT) environment (SQA and Pre-
production) and support the maintenance of that environment for the duration of the tests
 Created systems diagrams, product road maps, use cases Experience identifying gaps and deficiencies in business requirements,
technical specifications, designs and testing documentation for completeness and testability
 Assisted in the management, prioritization, and escalation of cross-team tasks associated with the Orion Rhapsody architecture
 Designed, developed, and maintained Healthcare interoperability interfaces with New Jersey Health Information Network (NJHIN)
using Orion Rhapsody
 Designed and Developed engine routes including validations, translations, and web service endpoints to receive and process
electronic submissions to Department of Health New Jersey.
 Created and maintained Orion Rhapsody Interface Engine sites for batch processing and Webservices
 Built, Test and Deployed Interface between Immunization registry and Birth & Fetal Death Registry in POC and UAT environments
 Created WSDL and maintained Webservices in Rhapsody Interface engine
 Designed, developed, and implemented solutions integrating external system data in various formats like HL7, XML, and CSV etc.
 Working knowledge using multiple Communication points like Dynamic Router, TCP Server, TCP Client, Timer, HTTP server
for SOAP, Directory
 Built Technical Documentation including final development code files, compiled code, and supporting documentation

State of Maine – Center for Disease Control and Prevention December 2017 – June 2019 Computer
Programmer
 Developed the data process and implementation for the NEMSIS 3.4 XML messages utilizing the current schema
 Identified custom (non-NEMSIS standard) fields that Maine EMS uses. Build Rhapsody Routes and database tables to handle these
custom fields
 Built basic data “warehouse” (a few database tables that allow for querying and reporting against, schema to be determined by
business requirements)
 Tested the EMS interfaces Objects in Test environment before moving them into Production
 Deployment of EMS (Emergency Medical Services) interfaces Mappings/Sessions/Workflows into Production environment
 Reviewed existing JavaScript codes in rhapsody routes and improvise them to simple codes
 Worked with HIN (Health info Network) and hospitals to improve the content and quality of their syndromic HL7 messages
 Redesigned the Syndromic Surveillance Interface on Rhapsody as per Public Health Information Network (PHIN) guide
 Rebuilt the Syndromic Surveillance SQL database to include every field of HL7 in Multiple tables
 Wrote JavaScript codes to retrieving data from HL7 fields and insert the data into SQL Database
 Used JavaScript to create properties and use them when required
 Tested and Deployed the Syndromic Surveillance interface in TEST and Production Environment
 Built Routes for Nors Direct (National Outbreak Reporting System)
State of Maine – Center for Disease Control and Prevention December 2017 – June 2019 Computer
Programmer
 Worked with various epidemiology teams on reduction in paper-based reporting on reporting outbreaks in NBS
 NBS support backup - application availability, data flows, problem identification and resolution.
 Automated receipt of electronic case reports from healthcare providers, other health information systems, and other public health
jurisdictions.
 Reporting module to extract data for analysis, visualization, and reporting

Primera Healthcare December 2016 – July 2017

Senior Interface Engineer
 Worked on Epic Bridges Error work queues and added Error resolution steps for specific error ID’s
 Integrated Interfaces using Iguana Interface Engine and Mirth Interface Engine
 Utilized Python and Lua Scripting in Iguana Interface Engine and building interfaces between multiple labs and Meditech EHR
applications
 The implementations involved creating and modifying VMD files. The VMD file acts as the message translator between the two
applications
 Monitored, Troubleshot, and resolved errors for existing interfaces on Iguana interface engine

Sutherland Healthcare Solutions December 2010 – July 2016

Senior Interface Engineer/Project Coordinator
 Handled a team of about eight members which includes coordinating and monitoring the various HL7 Interface projects that are
being handled simultaneously by them
 Analyzed, designed, documented, tested, troubleshot, coordinated implementation, and provide technical support using Orion
Rhapsody and Mirth Connect Interface Engine for HL7 interfaces between Health Information Systems (HIS) and ancillary
application systems
 Designed, coded, tested and troubleshoot interfaces using Orion Rhapsody Interface engine
 Built HL7 Interfaces using File Sharing, TCP/IP and FTP connections using Orion Rhapsody Interface Engine
 Worked on multiple aspects of projects like quotes, budgeting, and scheduling
 Attended Kick off (KOC), Weekly, Go-Live and post Go-Live calls to ensure smooth transactions of the projects
 Involved with the planning, controlling, and monitoring, and also managing and directing the assigned project resources to best
meet project objectives
 Coordinated with the clients about their HL7 interface requirements and discussing the progress in the weekly review meetings
 Worked with Application Analysts and Interface Engineers to translate interface requirements into technical HL7 specifications.
 Managed concurrent projects by working with multiple departments, analysts, and vendors to complete the projects in a timely
manner
 Implemented Interfaces with All scripts and other clinical modules, supporting, building, and implementing EHR applications
across major Hospital Management Companies
 Drafted and maintained technical documentation used for all phases of integration including analysis, design development, testing,
Go-Live, post-live, support, change control and down-time procedures
 Developed interfaces using SQL, Networking and HL7 for All scripts Myway, EHR and Pro PM, ProEHR and Touch works customers.
 Analyzed requirements, develop HL7 integration plans and test specifications
 Experience with electronic health record systems, laboratory information systems and Immunization Registry systems
 Designed, coded, tested and troubleshoot interfaces accordingly to specifications using required protocols
 Demonstrated client service and satisfaction as defined by department standards.
 Extensive knowledge of HL7 Standards, and the implementation of interfaces and how to build/validate HL7 messages