Clinical Terminologist - Remote

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 diversity and inclusion, talented peers, comprehensive benefits and career development opportunities. Come make an impact on the communities we serve as you help us advance health equity on a global scale. Join us to start Caring. Connecting. Growing together.

The Clinical Terminologist will lead and develop innovative approaches to meeting complex internal customer clinical terminology needs. They will contribute to the development and maintenance of our library of clinical terminology content to support numerous clinical applications and systems including clinical decision support, population health management, quality reporting, utilization management among many others. Leveraging their clinical and informatics knowledge, specifically with respect to clinical data, along with their experience with terminology this role will lead complex projects working with internal customers to anticipate and define their clinical terminology requirements and ensure delivery of high-quality clinical terminology products that their needs are met. Careful attention to informatics best practices and editorial standards will be needed to ensure high quality content development.

You'll enjoy the flexibility to work remotely * from anywhere within the U.S. as you take on some tough challenges.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Independently lead complex terminology projects while ensuring high attention to detail
• Provides expert authoring and maintenance, along with peer review for colleagues, of clinical terminology content in accordance with editorial standards and best practices
• Independently lead complex projects with internal customers to anticipate, define and deliver on clinical terminology needs to support internal customer use cases
• Serves as a subject matter expert on complex terminology challenges across the enterprise
• Provide mentorship to team members with regards to terminology expertise and practice
• As a leader ensure adherence to ongoing governance of editorial standards for terminology content management, including peer review of content
• Advise on interoperability standards that apply to clinical terminologies
• Ensure existing terminology content library stays up to date as underlying code systems update
• Actively participates in terminology services product roadmap development to ensure adequate planning and resource forecasting

You'll be rewarded and recognized for your performance in an environment that will challenge you and give you clear direction on what it takes to succeed in your role as well as provide development for other roles you may be interested in.

Required Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in authoring and maintaining clinical terminology content (code systems, value sets and cross maps)
• Proven solid working knowledge of reference terminologies, e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD-10 CM/PCS, CPT, HCPCS, RxNorm, NDC and LOINC
• Proficiency with editorial standards and best practices around value set authorship and maintenance, i.e. intensional (aka rule based) vs. extensional
• Proficiency with value set authoring tool sets, e.g., Value Set Authority Center, Symedical, Health Language, Apelon, etc.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Professional clinical experience
• Experience with electronic health records implementation and/or optimization
• Experience with FHIR and HL7 V2
• Experience with data analytics and database technologies
• Project management experience

*All employees working remotely will be required to adhere to UnitedHealth Group's Telecommuter Policy.

The salary range for this role is $89,800 to $176,700 annually based on full-time employment. Pay is based on several factors including but not limited to local labor markets, education, work experience, certifications, etc. UnitedHealth Group complies with all minimum wage laws as applicable. In addition to your salary, UnitedHealth Group offers benefits such as, a comprehensive benefits package, incentive and recognition programs, equity stock purchase and 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). No matter where or when you begin a career with UnitedHealth Group, you'll find a far-reaching choice of benefits and incentives.

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

At UnitedHealth Group, our mission is to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone. We believe everyone-of every race, gender, sexuality, age, location and income-deserves the opportunity to live their healthiest life. Today, however, there are still far too many barriers to good health which are disproportionately experienced by people of color, historically marginalized groups and those with lower incomes. We are committed to mitigating our impact on the environment and enabling and delivering equitable care that addresses health disparities and improves health outcomes - an enterprise priority reflected in our mission.

Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: UnitedHealth Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.

UnitedHealth Group is a drug - free workplace. Candidates are required to pass a drug test before beginning employment.