Clinical Terminologist

Role - Clinical Terminologist

Experience: - 5+ Years

Location: - Chicago, IL OR Houston, TX (Hybrid)

Educational Qualifications: -

• Degree in a clinical discipline: M.D. or D.O., nursing, NP, PA-C, etc.
• Formal informatics training is a strong plus

Responsibilities: -

• Perform heads-down terminology work, plus review clinical work done by non-clinical terminology analysts.
• Use prior patient care/clinical experience and research skills to develop, QA, maintain, and improve client s interface clinical terminology and complex terminology-based products.
• Identification, evaluation, planning, and execution of projects aimed at raising the quality of client s terminology offerings.
• Ownership of terminology projects: includes analysis, clinical oversight, and communication with customers and client s business stakeholders.
• Conduct complex terminology analysis: e.g. customer terminology migration, development/improvement of value sets.
• Migrate customer term dictionaries into client s terminology; map to SNOMED; create new terms when needed.
• Handle customer term requests, including communicating with customers as needed.
• Review updates to standardized terminologies; create/map new laboratory terms where appropriate in client s lexicons.
• Provide domain and terminology support to client s sales and marketing teams.
• Use data tools for analysis and discovery (including SQL).
• Participate in internal meetings; contribute to development and documentation of processes and policies.
• Maintain professional (clinical) domain knowledge; keep current with literature etc.

Mandatory skills

• Preferably 3+ years of clinical experience; completion of residency minimum.
• 3+ years of experience with standardized clinical vocabularies: developing, mapping, etc., including SNOMED-CT.
• Deep understanding of nuances of language and meaning; excellent English vocabulary and grammar (written & verbal).
• High attention to detail; ability to perform complex work carefully.
• Ability to search and assess medical/scientific literature.
• Willingness to lead projects and grow skills over time.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office; use of Microsoft Access-based tools.
• Experience with databases; knowledge of SQL is a strong plus