Enterprise BA: Healthcare Vendor Onboarding, HL7 and FHIR

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Course description

When a hospital system connects a new vendor to its data, the business analyst is the person who holds the project together. This course puts you in that seat, inside a working Agile team.

You play the BA at North Valley Health System (NVHS), onboarding a specialty pharma vendor that will receive patient and visit data from the hospital's HL7 v2 messages as FHIR resources. You run the work from start to finish: you identify stakeholders, gather and write requirements, agree what data is shared and what is not, document the mapping, turn it into user stories in Jira, test it, and take it live.

You never work alone. Meet the project team: Hannah Park, the Scrum Master; Dr. Elena Rostova, the clinical pharmacist who is the business sponsor and Product Owner; Marcus Vance, the Lead Integration Architect who owns the gateway and its rules; Nina Okafor, the Test Analyst; Sarah Jenkins, the Privacy and Security Officer; and, on the vendor side, David Miller, the Project Manager, and Alex Chen, the Lead Developer.

Every module opens and closes the way real projects do. Each module starts with a realistic team meeting that sets the agenda, where the team talks through where the project stands and who does what. Each module ends with a status update in the style of a Sprint Review, where every team member gives their own perspective on what was delivered and what was learned. The course finishes with a final project meeting in which the NVHS Vice President of Clinical Operations congratulates the team. Between the meetings, the lessons are focused, step-by-step instruction in a single clear voice, so you can follow the method without the noise.

The course teaches the process, not one company's mapping. Every organization maps its own fields, so you work through a small example of 10 mapping rows covering patient identity and the visit. You learn how to build such a table, check it against the HL7 standard, question it, and get it signed off. You can apply the same method to your own fields.

Privacy shapes the whole course. You learn why only the minimum data is shared, how to justify each field, and how to say no to the rest.

The course is for working professionals. You leave with a method and a set of documents you can adapt at work: a RACI, a requirements list, a mapping specification, user stories with acceptance criteria, a traceability view, a UAT log and a go-live checklist, plus a clear picture of how a business analyst works with each role on an Agile team.

What you will learn

• Explain the BA's role in a healthcare vendor onboarding and run the project with a clear stakeholder map and RACI.

• Work inside an Agile team: take part in sprint kickoffs, status reviews and retrospectives, and know which role owns which decision.

• Apply the HIPAA minimum necessary rule to decide what data a vendor receives and what it does not.

• Gather and write clear, testable requirements by interviewing the vendor, the source-system team and privacy.

• Set up a Jira project for an interface onboarding, with epics, issue types and a workflow.

• Read an HL7 v2 ADT message and identify the patient and visit values in it.

• Describe FHIR Patient and Encounter resources, identifiers, and code systems in plain terms.

• Build and review a mapping specification from source field to FHIR target, and separate the standard from your own business rules.

• Write user stories and acceptance criteria from mapping rows, plan a sprint, and link requirements to stories and tests.

• Run UAT, log and triage defects, and prepare a go-live checklist and handoff.

Who this course is for

• Business analysts and systems analysts who work, or will work, on healthcare integrations.

• Project managers and Scrum Masters who run or support interface and vendor onboarding projects.

• Product owners and QA analysts who write or test requirements for healthcare data exchange.

• IT and clinical informatics staff who join onboarding projects and need the BA process.

This course is not for people who want to learn to build interface engines or write code. It teaches the analysis, documentation and delivery side.

Requirements

• No HL7 or FHIR experience is needed; Module 2 teaches what you need.

• Basic knowledge of business analysis terms such as requirements and stakeholders helps but is not required.

• Access to Jira. A free account is enough for the exercises.

• A spreadsheet or document tool for the templates.