Clinical Informatics Specialist
About The Position
The Clinical Informatics Specialist (described in the posting as a mid-level Clinical Terminology Specialist) will help launch a new terminology services platform and establish the operational processes, documentation, training materials, and governance needed to support healthcare interoperability and analytics initiatives. The role works with business and technical teams, implementation partners, and healthcare data stakeholders to promote consistent use of clinical vocabularies and coding standards across systems. This is a foundational program-building role, not solely a maintenance position. The specialist will develop and maintain terminology mappings, value sets, standards, and supporting documentation; contribute to terminology governance and data standardization; and establish a knowledge repository. The role also develops and delivers training for NC HIEA staff and stakeholders, explains technical concepts in accessible business language, and serves as a resource on terminology practices. The specialist collaborates on requirements, solution design, testing, knowledge transfer, implementation planning, validation, and operational readiness, and helps define program success measures and identify opportunities to improve data quality, interoperability, and analytics readiness. This is a contract position, fully remote, based out of Remote, OR. The listed pay range is $40.00–$55.00 per hour, with individual compensation dependent on factors including qualifications, skills, experience, job knowledge, location, and internal equity. Eligible benefits for this temporary role may include medical, dental and vision coverage; critical illness, accident and hospital coverage; a 401(k) plan; life insurance; short- and long-term disability; a health spending account; transportation benefits; an employee assistance program; and time off or leave. The position is anticipated to close on October 28, 2026.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in healthcare, clinical informatics, healthcare data, terminology management, or a related area.
- Experience working with healthcare coding systems and vocabulary standards.
- Experience developing technical and operational documentation.
- Experience supporting healthcare interoperability, data standardization, or information management initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience with one or more of SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, clinical vocabularies, value sets, code mapping, or terminology management tools.
- Strong foundational knowledge of clinical terminology concepts and healthcare data standardization; deep expertise in every terminology set is not required.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience developing and delivering training content.
- Ability to present complex technical information to diverse audiences.
- Proven ability to collaborate across business and technical teams.
- Ability to bridge clinical and technical teams, learn and apply new terminology management technologies, create structure and documentation in a new program environment, and train and mentor others on terminology concepts.
- Prepare a 5–10 minute presentation demonstrating a previous related project and its objectives, business drivers, challenges, approach, success metrics, results, and lessons learned.
Nice To Haves
- Clinical informatics background.
- Experience with terminology services platforms.
- Experience supporting Health Information Exchange (HIE) initiatives.
- Experience with healthcare interoperability standards.
- Experience in state government, public health, or large healthcare organizations.
- Experience implementing or supporting Rhapsody or similar terminology solutions.
- Familiarity with healthcare analytics and data governance initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Support implementation and adoption of enterprise terminology services.
- Develop and maintain mappings, value sets, and terminology standards used across healthcare systems.
- Apply healthcare vocabularies and coding systems, including SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, and other standards.
- Promote consistent semantic representation of healthcare data across clinical, operational, and analytical use cases.
- Participate in terminology governance and data standardization activities.
- Create and maintain SOPs, process documentation, user guides, knowledge base articles, and training materials.
- Establish and organize a terminology services knowledge repository.
- Document workflows, business processes, and terminology management procedures.
- Develop and deliver training programs for NC HIEA staff and stakeholders.
- Educate users on terminology services capabilities, workflows, and effects on healthcare data.
- Translate technical concepts into understandable business language and serve as a subject matter resource for terminology questions and best practices.
- Collaborate with business users, data teams, architects, analysts, and external vendors, including implementation partners.
- Participate in requirements gathering, solution design discussions, testing, and knowledge transfer.
- Support communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Assist with rollout and adoption of a new terminology services platform.
- Contribute to implementation planning, testing, validation, and operational readiness.
- Help define success metrics and operational processes for the terminology services program.
- Identify opportunities to improve healthcare data quality, interoperability, and analytics readiness.
- Prepare and deliver a 5–10 minute presentation about a prior healthcare terminology, clinical informatics, interoperability, or terminology services project, covering objectives, business drivers, challenges, approach, success metrics, results, and lessons learned.
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Critical illness coverage
- Accident coverage
- Hospital coverage
- 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance for employees and dependents
- Short- and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time off or leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave, subject to eligibility and applicable terms
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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