Senior Clinical Informaticist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Contribute to the transformation of clinical data into usable research assets by spearheading initiatives in knowledge management, semantic normalization, and data quality assurance.

• Work in partnership with clinicians, scientists, data scientists, product managers, and engineers to establish scalable methods for mapping clinical concepts.

• Identify opportunities for capturing essential concepts.

• Create concept lists to facilitate cohort development.

• Design quality checks for clinical data to ensure datasets align with clinical standards.

• Develop and sustain concept groups.

• Assess customer code lists and suggest updates as necessary.

• Map claims data and health system information to standardized concepts in the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM).

• Semantically normalize data converted to the CDM from various health systems and prioritize the mapping of unmapped concepts.

• Produce documentation that outlines optimal data usage for insight generation.

• Collaborate with clients to enhance their understanding of how to utilize data for addressing research inquiries.

• Establish data quality testing protocols specific to disease areas.

• Determine effective strategies for capturing concepts that are vital for answering client research questions and assess the feasibility of concept prevalence analysis.

• Define annotation projects aimed at capturing intricate clinical ideas.

⛳️ Requirements

• MD or DO degree is required; completion of an accredited residency program is highly preferred.

• A minimum of 2 years of clinical experience is mandatory.

• Experience with standard clinical vocabularies such as SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, ICD-10-CM, CPT, or HCPCS, along with a solid understanding of their structure and application in clinical data representation.

• Familiarity with EHR systems and standard clinical documentation practices.

• Strong comprehension of data captured in structured and unstructured EHRs (e.g., clinical notes), as well as claims datasets, including the types of concepts each source best represents.

• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to facilitate cross-functional collaboration.

• Advanced training or certification in clinical informatics is preferred.

• At least 2–3 years of experience in clinical informatics or a closely related field is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements

• Professional development opportunities