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Medical Terminology Analyst Subject Matter Expert

J P Systems provides professional services for large Federal Healthcare IT projects.  Be part of a team influencing the future of global clinical data management by helping us to analyze and improve workflows across the Federal Government.  

This is not a medical billing or coding position.

Responsibilities of the Medical Terminology Analyst Senior:

• Provide expertise in Clinical Terminologies, Protege Ontology tool, clinical workflows and electronic health record systems to support analysis, design, customization, data mapping, integration, and continuous improvement of clinical data for specific use cases.
• Provide skills in the standardized reference terminologies such as SNOMED CT and LOINC for terminology authoring, editing, mapping, modeling, content peer review, new term submission and inclusion in US edition releases.
• Application of clinical care practice and in-depth knowledge of SNOMED CT to model clinical terms and concepts accurately for enterprise-wide data representation, organization, and interoperability.
• Develop and maintain major agency SNOMED clinical terminology extension, terminology references, and value sets to support enterprise clinical data structure and project requirements.
• Provide clinical expertise in healthcare software development and implementation focused on clinical decision support (CDS) applications, clinical practice guidelines, clinical workflow, clinical vocabulary architecture, and systems integration.
• Utilize informatics principles and tools to improve data accuracy, data capture, data integrity, data quality, and best practices by implementing validation checks and quality control procedures for health information systems data management.
• Develop mapping processes of local data to standard terminology concepts, health data messaging standards, clinical documents, and vocabulary standards to ensure seamless data exchange and integration with other healthcare information systems or third-party applications.
• Apply knowledge of data standards (HL7 FHIR, CDA), clinical terminologies (RxNorm, SNOMED CT, LOINC), ontologies (OWL, UMLS), and natural language processing (NLP) to support collection, sharing, standardization, and integration of healthcare data within the enterprise.
• Engage with domain experts to improve interoperability and compliance with healthcare regulations, industry standards, implementation specifications, and governance process for relevant standards development organizations (SDO) (e.g., HL7, SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, DICOM).
• Communicate effectively with customers and stakeholders to provide updates on project progress, challenges, and recommendations for improvement.
• May conduct, analyze, evaluate, and advise on project/healthcare-related areas, including terminology standards, health information architecture, clinical workflow, clinical efficiencies, business requirements identification and impact, care quality, and patient safety.
• Analyze the economic impact, feasibility, practicality, and effectiveness of existing and/or proposed federal standards, regulations, programs, and policies.
• Identify key policy issues and priorities, design analyses, evaluate alternative strategies, and make definitive recommendations to senior leadership.
• Present management briefings, reports, and plans to Senior Executives and stakeholder groups including both government and private entities within the healthcare industry.

• Medical informatics training or experience in clinical informatics, biomedical informatics, health informatics with terminology standard implementation
• SNOMED CT certification, or formal SNOMED CT training, or experience mapping SNOMED CT and LOINC
• Knowledge of data standards (HL7 FHIR, CDA), clinical terminologies (LOINC, RxNorm, UMLS), ontologies (OWL), and natural language processing (NLP)

• Active contributions to the field of medical informatics through application development, research, publications, presentations, or participation in healthcare standards development organization workgroups.

• Work closely with the Project Manager to prioritize project duties and establish goals for the
• Create policies, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and workflows that are implemented for business standardization and data governance.
• Perform Quality Assurance (QA) and data cleansing throughout the mapping and modeling process to preserve the integrity of the data and ensure all deliverables meet the quality requirements identified by the project team.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 5 - 9 years' experience required for this role.
• Strong critical and analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills
• 3 years' experience with Stanford's open-source Ontology editor Protégé’, Knowlegegraph database, SPARQL queries, MEME tool familiarity
  
• 5 years of triple store graph databases such as Stardog
• Demonstrate excellent attention to detail and work
• Proven ability to learn and adapt to change quickly and commitment to delivering high-quality results within tight project 
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to explain complex data concepts to a variety of audiences.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with the capacity to manage time effectively and meet tight 
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced, dynamic
• Self-starter attitude with a willingness to take initiative and continuously drive 
• Ability to work with all types of personnel with a professional

• Medical Doctor degree (M.D.) or equivalent healthcare education and experience with hospital workflows in the United States.
• Prior experience in medical informatics, clinical informatics, health information technology, or a similar 
• Advance SNOMED CT mapping skills, certification desired, termSpace experience is helpful
• Knowledge of healthcare data standards (e.g., HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, LOINC)
• Familiarity with common data analysis tools and platforms (e.g., SQL, Python, R)

Educational Requirements:

For senior specialists on select assignments, an MD, DO, PhD, PharmD or other advanced degree with commensurate experience, plus a minimum of five years additional experience in biomedical information systems content design and management, including thorough knowledge of major biomedical terminology standard products and terminology development practices, is preferred. For a Sr. Biomedical Informatics Specialist – pathologist advanced degree in medicine or osteopathic medicine (M.D. or D.O.) with specialization in pathology and minimum of five (5) years of pathology experience in clinical or/and academic setting is preferred. Specialization and experience in oncopathology are strongly preferred. 

Although we are 100% virtual, you must be located in one of our hiring states of AZ, CO, FL, GA, ID, IL, MD, MI, TX, VA, or WI.

Must have high speed internet connection.  

Relocation: Not paid

J P Systems does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Please note that our pay ranges are carefully researched and set based on the requirements of the position.  The salary range is displayed under Compensation for each position.  If you feel you qualify for a more senior level position than the ones advertised, please feel free to instead submit your resume from our Open Jobs webpage for consideration.