Medical Director Clinical Informatics - Remote

About the Role

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality, and revenue growth.

The Medical Director Clinical Informatics will lead and develop innovative approaches to clinical decision support (CDS) content authoring in support of electronic health record (EHR) embedded applications. This role will primarily be responsible for deeply understanding and translating clinical practice guidelines from their native narrative form into structured logic representations that faithfully interpret and disambiguate the guidelines. You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Responsibilities

• Author, maintain, and support QA of CDS content
• Translate clinical guidelines from a narrative format into a structured logical representation
• Break down clinical guidelines to the semantically precise clinical concepts referenced in the Clinical Guideline
• Collaborate with peer reviewers to ensure that content is clinically accurate, current, and supported by the best available evidence from the medical literature
• Collaborate with clinical terminologists to identify and represent clinical concepts using industry standard terminologies
• Partner with technical informaticists for implementation of the logical structured representation of the content using well-defined data structures and algorithms
• Act as a content and process steward related to the development of clinical content, author and maintain policies related to curation
• Provide training and support for content authoring colleagues to leverage the tools, process, and policies of content development

Clinical Product Development

• Participate in cross-functional collaboration between clinical content, clinical product, and software development teams to optimize utilization of clinical content in relevant clinical workflows within clinical applications embedded and external to the EHR
• Provide clinical informatics and clinical subject matter expertise and best practices to cross-functional clinical product design to improve user adoption and experience of clinical applications
• Train new teams of content authors in the use of tools, techniques, and best practices for content authoring

Innovation/Leadership

• Design, test, and implement new methods and processes related to clinical content development
• Collaborate in the development of ongoing strategy related to incorporation of AI capabilities into the content development pipeline ensuring appropriate safeguards
• Provide thought leadership internally on clinical content development best practices

Requirements

• Medical Graduate (MD/DO or MBBS)
• 5+ years of clinical practice experience
• 5+ years of experience in Clinical Informatics
• 2+ years of experience related to CDS
• Experience collaborating with Clinical subject matter experts, product, and software architects
• Experience with evidence-based medicine framework
• Experience with FHIR
• Experience with leveraging AI, Large Language Models, generative AI in informatics processes
• Significant experience translating clinical guidelines into structured logical representation
• Deep understanding and use of clinical terminology

Preferred Qualifications

• Advanced degree in Clinical Informatics, Healthcare, or related clinical discipline
• Current and non-restricted MD license
• Board certification in Clinical Informatics
• Experience authoring and maintaining clinical terminology content
• Experience with clinical terminology content authoring platforms
• Experience with Clinical Quality Language
• Experience with CPG on FHIR
• Experience with decision modeling frameworks

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package
• Incentive and recognition programs
• Equity stock purchase
• 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements)

Pay

Compensation for this specialty generally ranges from $xxx,xxx - $xxx,xxx. Total cash compensation includes base pay and bonus and is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, and may increase over time based on productivity and performance in the role. We comply with all minimum wage laws as applicable.