Inovalon
Clinical Informatics & Ontology Lead
Remote- United States · Senior
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About the role
- Data Asset and Source Assessment: Evaluate new and existing data assets for clinical depth, code specificity, normalization readiness, and semantic fit for real-world data (RWD) and related products; prepare structured recommendations for leadership review.
- Fulfill those responsibilities and/or duties that may be reasonably provided by Inovalon for the purpose of achieving operational and financial success of the Company.
- Uphold responsibilities relative to the separation of duties for applicable processes and procedures within your job function.
Responsibilities
- Maintain compliance with Inovalon's policies, procedures, and mission statements.
- Clinical Ontology Strategy: Lead the strategy, governance, and maintenance of clinical ontologies and terminology assets, including ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, and internal reference tables, ensuring accuracy, currency, traceability, and alignment with data product needs.
- Terminology Ownership: Serve as the primary Informatics lead for normalization and terminology services; translate business, clinical, and product requirements into terminology configuration, mapping, and implementation priorities.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate closely with Data Engineering, Product, and Clinical teams to ensure that data specifications are accurately implemented, and downstream data products reflect high-fidelity source data.
- Data Quality Rule Design: Define terminology-driven data quality rules, semantic validation checks, and normalization benchmarks; partner with the Data Quality & Analytics team to identify gaps, drift, obsolete codes, mapping failures, and downstream product impacts.
- Pipeline Modernization and Knowledge Graph Support: Lead Informatics input into the migration of legacy reference tables to scalable terminology services, ontology management workflows, and, where applicable, knowledge graph capabilities.
- Governance and Documentation: Maintain documentation of ontology decisions, mapping assumptions, value set definitions, version changes, and downstream dependencies to support auditability, release readiness, and cross-functional transparency.
- And the momentum is building.
Requirements
- Terminology Expertise: Deep hands-on expertise with ICD-10-CM, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED CT, LOINC, RxNorm, clinical concept modeling, value sets, crosswalks, and terminology lifecycle management required.
Skills
- Data Normalization and Ontology Management:
- Communication and Leadership:
- Organizational
Benefits
- Inovalon was founded in 1998 on the belief that technology, and data specifically, would empower the transformation of the entire healthcare ecosystem for the better, improving both outcomes and economics.
- At Inovalon, we believe that when our customers are successful in their missions, healthcare improves.
- Together, as ONE Inovalon, we are a united force delivering solutions that address healthcare's greatest needs.
- 10+ years of experience in healthcare data, clinical informatics, terminology management, ontology governance, clinical data normalization, or a related field with a Bachelor's degree required; or
- 7+ years of experience in healthcare data, clinical informatics, terminology management, ontology governance, clinical data normalization, or a related field with a Master's degree required.
- SQL and Data Analysis Skills: Proficiency with SQL for querying, profiling, validating, and investigating large-scale healthcare datasets, including EHR, claims, RWD, and normalized clinical data assets.
Company info
- Through our mission-based culture of inclusion and innovation, our organization brings value not just to our customers, but to the millions of patients and members they serve.
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