Clinical Informaticist

OpenLoop Health•Des Moines, IA

8d•Remote

About The Position

OpenLoop is seeking a remote Clinical Informaticist to join its Clinical & Informatics team. Reporting to the Senior Medical Director of Clinical & Informatics, this role serves as a clinical subject matter expert for product and project teams and develops and maintains clinical data sets that power clinical decision support and workflows across the platform. The Clinical Informaticist translates clinical needs into workflow and data specifications, builds and maintains clinical data assets, and works with clinical, product, engineering, quality, and training stakeholders to ensure platform features and workflows are safe, usable, accurate, and clinically meaningful. The role also supports clinical content governance, guideline development, interoperability, and ongoing quality and product improvements.

Requirements

Active, unrestricted clinical license, such as MD/DO, PharmD, NP, or PA, and current board certification in the relevant clinical discipline.
At least 5 years of clinical practice experience.
At least 5 years of hands-on clinical informatics experience, including data development, data analysis, and data maintenance.
Strong working knowledge of clinical workflows and experience working in or with multiple EHR systems.
Demonstrated clinical informatics experience, ideally combining clinical knowledge with data development to support clinical decision-making and workflows.
High proficiency in SQL and PL/SQL.
Knowledge of and/or experience with FHIR, the FHIR resource model, and FHIRPath syntax.
Computer proficiency with Google Suite, Zoom, Zoho, Notion, Slack, and similar platforms.
Strong analytical skills and attention to detail, including the ability to reason through complex clinical and data-modeling problems.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to translate between clinical and technical audiences.
Ability to work cross-functionally with multiple teams and stakeholders.
Ability to pivot quickly in a rapidly growing startup environment.

Nice To Haves

Formal training in clinical informatics, such as graduate coursework, a certificate, or board certification in Clinical Informatics.
Experience building or maintaining clinical content, terminology mappings, or decision-support data sets.
Experience working with Claude, Claude Code, or other AI models to assist with data design, quality assurance, and integrity.
Experience as an informaticist for a clinical data or medical vocabulary company, such as LOINC, SNOMED CT, Medi-Span, First Databank (FDB), or Lexicomp.

Responsibilities

Serve as the clinical subject matter expert for product and project teams, advising on clinical workflows, clinical knowledge, and clinical data best practices.
Design, build, test, and update clinical data assets used for clinical decision support and workflows, maintaining their accuracy, completeness, and clinical validity.
Translate clinical requirements into workflow and informatics or data specifications, and validate that delivered features reflect sound clinical reasoning.
Analyze clinical data to identify gaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities, and use findings to enhance decision-support logic and workflow automation.
Review technical specifications for clinical workflow applications and provide clinical informatics input and subject matter expertise to product managers leading clinical application products.
Maintain and curate mappings to standardized clinical and medical vocabularies to support interoperability and consistency across systems.
Collaborate with clinical, product, and engineering stakeholders to ensure data-driven features are safe, usable, and clinically meaningful.
Partner with clinical leadership on guideline development, clinical content governance, quality improvements, and product enhancements.
Work with Quality and Clinical Training/Education teams to identify workflow improvement opportunities and collaboratively design and implement solutions.
Perform other duties as assigned.