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Information Security and Risk Analyst
HealtheConnections
$70–85K / year · Syracuse, New York, US
Syracuse, New York, US (Hybrid)1 open job
Operates a New York health information exchange enabling clinical data sharing, secure messaging, encounter alerts, and population-health analytics across providers, hospitals, payers, and public-health teams.
HealtheConnections runs a health information exchange in New York, moving clinical data between providers, hospitals, community organizations, public-health teams, payers, researchers, and technology partners. That makes the security perimeter unusually wide: the organization is a SHIN-NY Qualified Entity with statewide reach, supporting thousands of health professionals across five regions - Hudson Valley, Southern Tier, Central, Northern, and Finger Lakes. The data at stake is patient records, clinical summaries, results, and encounter events flowing across organizational boundaries at the point of care.
The technical surface is broad and layered. Core offerings include the Health Information Exchange platform itself, patient-record access and clinical summaries, statewide encounter alerts, secure messaging for healthcare professionals, analytics dashboards for clinical and organizational data, and population-health data services. Technical domains span health information exchange, interoperability, clinical data exchange, healthcare data analytics, population health data, secure messaging, and health data security - meaning security work sits alongside the interoperability and data-exchange layers rather than in a separate silo.
Culturally, the organization describes itself as collaborative and mission-driven, with cross-team work expected and an explicit emphasis on improving security practices. Employees are encouraged to build repeatable processes and to stay proactive about the needs of partners and communities. For a security hire, the context is a high-performance, high-energy environment where protecting data integrity and access control is inseparable from making that data useful across healthcare, public health, payers, and research.