Terminologist - Ontologist

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• Hop on a rocketship: Included Health has recently become the second-biggest digital health company in the US.  We’re on a roll and we are still only in the early innings of our mission.
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• Make healthcare work for millions of people: We’re taking on healthcare head-on. End each day knowing that your work is transforming a $3.6 trillion industry and millions of people’s lives for the better.

About the role

• We are seeking someone with deep exposure to multiple aspects of healthcare (incl. payer and provider) and experience in re-using and building ontologies and terminologies for healthcare knowledge and content. You will work closely with business leaders and stakeholders holders to unambiguously define and standardize company-wide taxonomies and ontologies. You will leverage your knowledge of healthcare terminology standards, understanding of the healthcare context and use cases and operational datastores to build out standardized taxonomies and terminologies.

What you'll be doing

• Engage with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to clarify and document business definitions which lead to definitions of standardized concepts that can be organized into ontologies and terminologies/taxonomies.
• Review and monitor existing data definitions in Database Schemas, data distributions captured in current operational systems
• Review and Document requirements - in the form of stakeholders, product features, information needs, and navigation flows across various sub-products and stakeholders
• Identify Industry Standards (Ontologies and Terminologies) and standardized taxonomies and terminologies. 
• Collaborative and Iterative Design of Terminologies and Taxonomies - and their cross-mapping to industry standard terminologies and IH taxonomies
• Validate Terminologies for consistency and coverage (completeness) - based on feedback from stakeholders and running test queries and reports
• Collaborate with members of the data platform team to map terminology concepts into data values in operational systems.
• Collaborate with members of the data platform team to identify downstream impacts whenever there’s addition/deletion/modification of concepts in terminologies.
• Evaluation of Terminology Creation and Management tools - e.g., Protege, Health Language, Apelon, Symedica

What makes you a great fit

• Deep understanding and knowledge of Terminology Standards such as ICD10, CPT, Snomed, LOINC, RXNorm (Must Have), ERGs, RERGs, DRGs (Nice to Have)
• (Preferred) Experience with Terminology Creation and Management Tools
• Experience in a healthcare setting with deep exposure to Payer and Provider oriented terminologies (Nice to Have)
• Experience with Clinical Information Models - FHIR (Preferred), OMOP, Pcorenet (Nice to Have) Knowledge of the Healthcare Ecosystem and Use Cases - e.g., Care Workflows, Careplans, Prior Auth, Population Health, Segmentation/Stratification, Risk Computation, etc. (Must Have)
• (Nice to have): Knowledge of Semantic Technologies - RDF, OWL etc.