Clinical Terminologist

Who We Need

Truveta is rapidly building a talented and diverse team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. Beyond core capabilities, we are seeking problem solvers, passionate and collaborative teammates, and those willing to roll up their sleeves while making a difference. If you are interested in the opportunity to pursue purposeful work, join a mission-driven team, and build a rewarding career while having fun, Truveta may be the perfect fit for you.

This Opportunity

At Truveta, we believe that high data quality will play a critical role in accomplishing our mission towards saving lives with data. An important component of this work is data normalization in which the medical terminology linking, and terminology management are essential in building deep intelligence empowering the new generation of clinical research.

We are looking for a full-time contract Clinical Terminologist who will help to standardize the data sourced from different health systems. The responsibilities include identifying, creating, or validating mapping between medical terms from various healthcare system to standardized Terminologies and extending them.

Key Qualifications

• Education in Medicine or related fields (Nursing, Pharmacy, Clinical laboratory science, Medical Informatics, Medical Research, medical coding, etc.)
• 2+ years of experience in the field.
• 1+ year of practical application in clinical terminologies: SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC
• One of the following but not limited to these certifications: Certified Professional Coder (CPC) – AAPC, Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) – AHIMA, Certified Coding Associate (CCA) – AHIMA, Registered Health Information Technician (RHIT), Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA), Certified Outpatient Coder (COC), Certified Inpatient Coder (CIC), Certified Coding Specialist (CCS), Certified Coding Specialist – Physician (CCS-P)
• Understanding of Electronic Medical Records, including but not limited to reading medical charts, medication lists, lab reports, SOAP notes, procedure notes, etc.
• Understanding of vast medical terms and frequently used abbreviations.
• Ability to provide subject matter expertise in one or more areas within data management.
• Effective communication skills, project management with minimal supervision
• Cross-functional team collaboration (engineering, project manager, modeling team) to deliver constant improvement in data pipeline.
• Actively participate in efforts to enhance data management process as needed.
• Develop and maintain project documentation.
• Perform data checks and edits to ensure quality.
• Comprehension of guidelines to maintain effective data standards.
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office Products (Outlook, Excel, Word).

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in clinical terminology mapping using SNOMED CT, LOINC and RxNorm.
• Experience in annotating training data for machine learning models.