The Clinical Terminologist will lead and develop innovative approaches to meeting complex internal customer clinical terminology needs. They will contribute to the development and maintenance of our library of clinical terminology content to support numerous clinical applications and systems, including clinical decision support, population health management, quality reporting, and utilization management. Leveraging their clinical and informatics knowledge, specifically with respect to clinical data, along with their experience with terminology, this role will lead complex projects working with internal customers to anticipate and define their clinical terminology requirements and ensure delivery of high‐quality clinical terminology products that their needs are met. Careful attention to informatics best practices and editorial standards will be needed to ensure high quality content development.
Careers with Optum offer flexible work arrangements, and individuals who live and work in the Republic of Ireland will have the opportunity to split their monthly work hours between our Dublin or Letterkenny office and telecommuting from a home‐based office in a hybrid work model.
Primary Responsibilities
Independently lead complex terminology projects while ensuring high attention to detail
Provides expert authoring and maintenance, along with peer review for colleagues, of clinical terminology content in accordance with editorial standards and best practices
Independently lead complex projects with internal customers to anticipate, define and deliver on clinical terminology needs to support internal customer use cases
Serves as a subject matter expert on complex terminology challenges across the enterprise
Provide mentorship to team members with regards to terminology expertise and practice
As a leader ensure adherence to ongoing governance of editorial standards for terminology content management, including peer review of content
Advise on interoperability standards that apply to clinical terminologies
Ensure existing terminology content library stays up to date as underlying code systems update
Actively participates in terminology services product roadmap development to ensure adequate planning and resource forecasting
Required Qualifications
Proven solid experience in authoring and maintaining clinical terminology content (code systems, value sets and cross maps)
Demonstrated solid working knowledge of reference terminologies, e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD‐10 CM/PCS, CPT, HCPCS, RxNorm, NDC and LOINC
Demonstrated proficiency with editorial standards and best practices for value set authorship and maintenance, including intensional (rule‐based) and extensional approaches
Demonstrated proficiency with value set authoring tool sets, e.g., Value Set Authority Center, Symedical, Health Language, Apelon, etc.
Proven professional clinical experience
Preferred Qualifications
Proven experience with Electronic Health Record (EHR) implementation and/or optimization
Demonstrated experience with FHIR and HL7 v2
Proven experience in data analysis and pipeline development
Demonstrated experience with Python, including AI assisted development
Equal Employment Opportunity
Optum is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, civil status, family status, sexual orientation, disability, religion, age, race, and membership of the Traveller community, or any other characteristic protected by law. Optum is a drug‐free workplace.
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