Medical Director Clinical Informatics - Remote

Optum Insight is improving the flow of health data and information to create a more connected system. We remove friction and drive alignment between care providers and payers, and ultimately consumers. Our deep expertise in the industry and innovative technology empower us to help organizations reduce costs while improving risk management, quality and revenue growth. Ready to help us deliver results that improve lives? 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.

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 EHR 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 practices 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.

Medical Graduate (MD/DO or MBBS) 5+ years of clinical practice experience 5+ years of experience in Clinical Informatics 2+ years of experience related to CDS Experience collaborating with Clinical subject matter experts, product and