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Healthcare Ontologist (Contingent Role) - Essex Management
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A Clinical Data Systems Analyst provides data analysis and reporting and manages applications for an electronic health record system at a hospital or health care organization.
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Healthcare Ontologist (Contingent Role) - Essex Management
LocationUS RemoteAbout EssexThis position supports "Essex, an Emmes Company". Essex is a biomedical informatics and health information technology-focused consultancy founded in 2009 and headquartered in Rockville, MD. The Essex team comprises experts with extensive experience in strategically developing and managing complex health and biomedical information programs for clients in the Federal Government, research academia, and private sectors. Primary Purpose The Healthcare Ontologist is a role within the Health Informatics and Standardization (HIS) Department of the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) Division at Essex. This role brings working expertise in health informatics, clinical data standards, interoperability, ontology, or applied data science to the delivery of technically sound work across federal biomedical research and health IT programs. The Healthcare Ontologist operates with greater autonomy than junior staff, owns well-defined tasks and small projects with minimal supervision, and contributes substantively to team problem-solving and scientific quality. Essex supports NCI and NIH programs requiring deep standards expertise and clinical credibility, and the Healthcare Ontologist is expected to bring sound technical judgment and domain knowledge to the work. ResponsibilitiesCore FunctionsOwn and execute well-defined analytical and technical tasks and small projects with minimal supervision from senior staff or your manager.
Assist junior staff with task-related questions, troubleshooting, and orientation.
Contribute substantively to team discussions on methodology, standards, tools, and technical decisions. working familiarity with best practices in your domain to deliver technically sound, high-quality work products.
Gather, elicit, and document functional requirements and specifications from varied stakeholders involved in health informatics projects.
Support data conversion, mapping, and validation activities relevant to implementation of clinical and health IT systems.
Support peer review of deliverables and contribute to quality assurance activities.
Contribute to team documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base materials.
Shadow senior staff during candidate interviews to begin developing evaluation skills.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Functions Specific to RoleDevelop, curate, and maintain biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabulary resources; apply frameworks such as OWL, RDF, and SKOS to knowledge representation tasks.
Map clinical and research concepts to established terminologies including NCIt, SNOMED CT, LOINC, MeSH, RxNorm, and HPO; ensure semantic consistency and coverage across data domains.
Support the development and governance of Common Data Elements (CDEs) and data dictionaries by providing ontology and terminology expertise; contribute to caDSR curation and maintenance.
Advise program teams on terminology binding, concept mapping, and semantic interoperability requirements for clinical research and health IT systems.
Collaborate with Engineering and Bioinformatics teams to ensure that ontology and terminology resources are integrated correctly into data pipelines, ...For full information see follow application link. The Emmes Company, LLC is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, age, or other legally protected characteristics.
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Healthcare Ontologist (Contingent Role) - Essex ManagementNotice to CandidatesEmployment in this position is expressly contingent upon Essex Management's receipt of a contract award from the Federal Government.LocationUS RemoteAbout EssexThis position supports "Essex, an Emmes Company". Essex is a biomedical informatics and health information technology-focused consultancy founded in 2009 and headquartered in Rockville, MD. The Essex team comprises experts with extensive experience in strategically developing and managing complex health and biomedical information programs for clients in the Federal Government, research academia, and private sectors. Primary Purpose The Healthcare Ontologist is a role within the Health Informatics and Standardization (HIS) Department of the Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (BIDS) Division at Essex. This role brings working expertise in health informatics, clinical data standards, interoperability, ontology, or applied data science to the delivery of technically sound work across federal biomedical research and health IT programs. The Healthcare Ontologist operates with greater autonomy than junior staff, owns well-defined tasks and small projects with minimal supervision, and contributes substantively to team problem-solving and scientific quality. Essex supports NCI and NIH programs requiring deep standards expertise and clinical credibility, and the Healthcare Ontologist is expected to bring sound technical judgment and domain knowledge to the work. ResponsibilitiesCore FunctionsOwn and execute well-defined analytical and technical tasks and small projects with minimal supervision from senior staff or your manager.
Assist junior staff with task-related questions, troubleshooting, and orientation.
Contribute substantively to team discussions on methodology, standards, tools, and technical decisions. working familiarity with best practices in your domain to deliver technically sound, high-quality work products.
Gather, elicit, and document functional requirements and specifications from varied stakeholders involved in health informatics projects.
Support data conversion, mapping, and validation activities relevant to implementation of clinical and health IT systems.
Support peer review of deliverables and contribute to quality assurance activities.
Contribute to team documentation, SOPs, and knowledge base materials.
Shadow senior staff during candidate interviews to begin developing evaluation skills.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Functions Specific to RoleDevelop, curate, and maintain biomedical ontologies and controlled vocabulary resources; apply frameworks such as OWL, RDF, and SKOS to knowledge representation tasks.
Map clinical and research concepts to established terminologies including NCIt, SNOMED CT, LOINC, MeSH, RxNorm, and HPO; ensure semantic consistency and coverage across data domains.
Support the development and governance of Common Data Elements (CDEs) and data dictionaries by providing ontology and terminology expertise; contribute to caDSR curation and maintenance.
Advise program teams on terminology binding, concept mapping, and semantic interoperability requirements for clinical research and health IT systems.
Collaborate with Engineering and Bioinformatics teams to ensure that ontology and terminology resources are integrated correctly into data pipelines, ...For full information see follow application link. The Emmes Company, LLC is an equal opportunity affirmative action employer and does not discriminate in its selection and employment practices. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, age, or other legally protected characteristics.