Director of Clinical Informatics

Director of Clinical Informatics

Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’ s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values.

Truveta was born in the Pacific Northwest, but we have employees who live across the country. Our team enjoys the flexibility of a hybrid model and working from anywhere.  In person attendance is required for two weeks during the year for Truveta Planning Weeks.

For overall team productivity, we optimize meeting hours in the pacific time zone. We avoid scheduling recurring meetings that start after 3pm PT, however, ad hoc meetings occur between 8am-6pm Pacific time. #LI-remote

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

Truveta is seeking a motivated and enthusiastic director of Clinical Informaticist (CI) to join our growing team of physicians. A successful director of CI at Truveta will play a pivotal role in transforming the extensive healthcare data provided by Truveta's member health systems into valuable insights, ensuring that it is clean, complete, useful, and easy to work with. This role demands a blend of clinical expertise, knowledge of healthcare workflows, and a solid understanding of informatics standards to effectively address real-world interoperability challenges to enhance our platform’s impact on customer-driven research.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with product managers, architects, and engineers to design and implement data models for healthcare data.
• Establish principles for term normalization and unstructured data extraction, partnering with terminologists to develop best practices using established terminologies and ontologies, including SNOMED, LOINC, and RxNorm.
• Scale clinical data quality initiatives by developing and implementing metrics through scalable frameworks that ensure high quality and integrity.
• Serve as an expert in healthcare and informatics, providing guidance to cross-functional teams, customers, engineers, and data scientists.

Required Skills

• Medical Doctor (M.D.) degree from an accredited U.S. medical school
• Experience working in with hospital workflows and using EHRs in the United States.
• Previous experience in organizing healthcare data through data modeling, normalization, quality reporting, or related clinical informatics skill sets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with an emphasis on attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with experience conveying complex clinical and informatics concepts to diverse audiences.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage time efficiently and meet stringent deadlines.
• Proactive self-starter with a commitment to continuous learning and professional development.
• Experience and proficiency in data analysis tools, platforms, or programming languages, such as SQL, Python, and R.
• Experience working with terminology systems including SNOMED, LOINC, RxNorm, and ICD to encode and query healthcare data.
• Familiarity and experience using OMOP or FHIR to organize and utilize healthcare data from EHRs and other sources of clinical data.

Why Truveta?   

Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well-funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together.  

We Offer:

• Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage
• Great benefits package
• Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• 401K plan
• Professional development & training opportunities for continuous learning
• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off
• Generous parental leave
• Regular team activities (virtual and in-person as soon as we are able)
• The base pay for this position is $217,000 to $246,000. The pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target. Pay is based on several factors including location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional compensation such as incentive pay and stock options.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.