Tempus

Clinical Terminologist

Tempus$67K — $95K *
Healthcare
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of experience with standard medical terminologies like ICD, SNOMED, and LOINC.
  • Familiarity with UMLS and NCIm.
  • Expertise in developing and maintaining clinical ontology models.
  • Experience handling real-world data from EHRs and lab systems.
  • Proficient with ELT tools for managing data pipelines.
  • Skilled in SQL, Python, and Semantic Web technologies.
  • Knowledgeable in healthcare information standards, including HL7 and FHIR.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with teams to manage terminology services across the company.
  • Maintain and enhance ontology solutions used company-wide.
  • Standardize clinical concepts from various data sources.
  • Oversee quality control for the introduction of new clinical concepts.
  • Support quality assurance and process improvement initiatives.
  • Monitor production processes and suggest improvements.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits package including medical and other health benefits.
  • Incentive compensation and restricted stock units depending on position.
Full Job Description
Responsibilities:
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage and update terminology services made available across the company.
  • Maintain and extend modeled ontology solutions used throughout the company.
  • Standardize clinical concepts from a variety of sources, including Tempus curated data, EHR integrations, and lab systems.
  • Manage the adjudication of, and quality control pipelines for, new clinical concepts and domains.
  • Proactively monitor and support quality assurance and process improvement initiatives.
  • Monitor performance of production processes and recommend areas for improvement.


Qualifications:
  • 3+ years working with standard medical terminologies (e.g., ICD-CM-9/10, SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC, CPT).
  • Working knowledge of UMLS and familiarity with NCIm.
  • Experience developing and maintaining clinical ontologic models.
  • Experience working with real world data from various sources (e.g., EHRs, lab systems, claims, and abstraction or curation).
  • Experience working with ELT tools to maintain high volume, high velocity data through-put pipelines.
  • Familiarity with SQL, Python, and Semantic Web Technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL)
  • Awareness of healthcare information standards, such as HL7 and FHIR for data exchange and interoperability.


Nice-to-haves:
  • Clinical background (PA, NP, RN, etc.).
  • Experience with real world data analysis in Python or sql.
  • Participation in professional organizations (e.g., OHDSI, AMIA).
  • Awareness of OMOP Common Data Model


Pay Range: $67,000 - $95,000 USD

The expected salary range may vary for other locations. Actual salary may vary based on qualifications and experience. Tempus offers a full range of benefits, which may include incentive compensation, restricted stock units, medical and other benefits depending on the position.

About Tempus

Tempus is a technology company that has built an operating system to battle cancer. The company enables physicians to deliver personalized cancer care for patients through its interactive analytical and machine learning platform. Tempus provides genomic sequencing services and analyzes molecular and therapeutic data to empower physicians to make real-time, data-driven decisions. The company also offers research services to enable discovery of new therapeutic targets and clinical services that support clinical trial design and monitoring. Tempus was founded in 2015 by Eric Lefkofsky and has raised over $8 billion in funding to date.
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Size
1,001 employees
Industry
Founded
2015

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