Medical Director Clinical Informatics - Remote

Medical Director Clinical Informatics

Optum is a global organization that delivers care, aided by technology to help millions of people live healthier lives. The work you do with our team will directly improve health outcomes by connecting people with the care, pharmacy benefits, data and resources they need to feel their best. Here, you will find a culture guided by inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities.

Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health optimization on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

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 interprets and disambiguates the guidelines. This work will be done with attention to detail and incorporate adherence to clinical ontologies/terminologies, information model and interoperability standards.

The role will work collaboratively with our technical teams on transforming the structured logic into executable content, maintenance and QA of the content. In addition, this role will serve as a thought leader in helping to optimize our content development pipeline including thoughtfully incorporating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the process.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely
* from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges. For all hires in the Minneapolis or Washington, D.C. area, you will be required to work in the office a minimum of four days per week.

Primary 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 HER
  • 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 process related to clinical content development
  • Collaborate in the development of ongoing strategy related to incorporation of AI capabilities into content development pipeline ensuring appropriate safeguards
  • Provide thought leadership internally on clinical content development best…