Senior Knowledge Engineer - Remote US

Smile Digital Health

1d • Remote

About The Position

The Knowledge Engineer expresses medical specifications as data queries using software language designed to be accessible to non-technical individuals. These queries are used by healthcare systems around the world to support clinical decision-making and measure healthcare quality. The role involves researching and writing simplified healthcare code, researching healthcare data models, designing test plans to ensure data accuracy, building data models to exercise those plans, and using test results and feedback to correct the code. This is a one-year contract position.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of experience as a clinical informaticist, data scientist, software developer, or in another relevant role.
• Healthcare technology experience.
• Post-secondary education in computer science or a related field, or comparable related work experience.
• Excellent computer literacy.
• Strong collaboration and verbal and written communication skills.
• Creative problem-solving and critical-thinking abilities, strong analytical skills, and attention to detail.
• High self-motivation, drive, and enthusiasm, coupled with integrity and professionalism.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Clinical Decision Support algorithms.
• Experience with Clinical Quality measures.
• Prior Authorization Adjudication Algorithms experience.
• Experience with FHIR.
• Experience with query languages such as SQL.
• Experience in programming and/or programming tools.

Responsibilities

• Write simplified healthcare code to represent healthcare specifications, including eCQMs and CDS-Hooks.
• Research healthcare data models such as FHIR, healthcare logic expressions such as CQL, and healthcare definitional models to correctly express specifications.
• Design test plans to ensure the code generates the correct data, expressed in FHIR.
• Generate sample FHIR data to exercise defined test plans and criteria.
• Document, maintain, and publish results in FHIR Implementation Guides to enable adoption and implementation by healthcare institutions.
• Collaborate with healthcare specialists, clinicians, terminologists, and cross-functional partners to understand and implement requirements and test implementations.
• Provide expert feedback on prior authorization policies, including analysis of complexity, scope, and effort.
• Identify and capture best practices and lessons learned.
• Maintain the confidentiality, privacy, and integrity of Smile Digital Health information.
• Comply with company policies, including privacy, security, and confidentiality policies.

Benefits

• Remote work environment.
• Flexible time-away-from-work policy, including PTO, personal days, and sick days.
• Competitive salary and health/medical benefits.
• RRSP/TFSA/401K employee contribution.
• Life and disability benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• FHIR Study Program and Skillsoft Learning.
• Super HAPI Fun Club.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior