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Availity delivers revenue cycle and related business solutions for health care professionals who want to build healthy, thriving organizations. Availity has the powerful tools, actionable insights and expansive network reach that medical businesses need to get an edge in an industry constantly redefined by change.

At Availity, we're not just another Healthcare Technology company; we're pioneers reshaping the future of healthcare! With our headquarters in vibrant Jacksonville, FL, and an exciting office in Bangalore, India, along with an exceptional remote workforce across the United States, we're a global team united by a powerful mission.

We're on a mission to bring the focus back to what truly matters – patient care. As the leading healthcare engagement platform, we're the heartbeat of an industry that impacts millions. With over 2 million providers connected to health plans, and processing over 13 billion transactions annually, our influence is continually expanding.

Join our energetic, dynamic, and forward-thinking team where your ideas are celebrated, innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts. We're transforming the healthcare landscape, solving communication challenges, and creating connections that empower the nation's premier healthcare ecosystem.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Clinical Informatics, the Clinical Terminologist will be a key component of the clinical informatics department, which consists of a group of professionals with diverse backgrounds but all passionate about data interoperability among electronic data sources. You will be responsible for defining data profiling, metadata documentation, data lineage, and data transformation rules in support of key program deliverables.

The Clinical Terminologist creates, implements, and enforces a taxonomy and meta data inventory while meeting data management needs of internal and external clients by leveraging and establishing data model standards and best practices. The Clinical Terminologist is responsible for performing data impact analyses in partnership with project teams, supporting the building of a strategic model including transformation rules and attribute relationships. This individual would also participate in defining, loading, and maintaining Taxonomy Content.

Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.

Location: Remote, US

Role qualifications:

• 2+ years’ experience with, and mapping across, US standard clinical terminologies, such as LOINC, SNOMED, RxNorm, NDC, ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, is required
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education/work experience in informatics, medical/clinical focus, life sciences, information systems or computer science
• Experience with terminology value set creation and mapping is a strong plus
• Experience with applicable standards specifications and organizations (e.g., C-CDA, FHIR, HL7) and terminology tools (e.g. VSAC) is a strong plus
• Experience working with a terminology platform is a strong plus
• Ability to create, review and modify SQL queries and stored procedures is a plus but not required
• Experience with healthcare information technology or data analytics is a plus but not required
• Flexibility to partner with and negotiate with various personality types at all levels within and outside the organization

What will set you apart:

• You have technical acumen working with large data sets and databases
• You have attention to detail and accuracy
• You have proven ability to learn and adapt to change quickly and easily 
• You have strong organizational and problem-solving skills 
• You constantly seek to evolve and improve current processes
• You have excellent and effective communication, both written and verbal
• You are a logical thinker
• You are positive and self-motivated

What you will be doing:

• Building requirements and maintaining terminology code set data (e.g., RxNorm, NDC, ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED, LOINC, etc.) on a knowledge management server to produce terminology output files
• Working with clinical informaticians to design and implement new terminology data to support new product use cases
• Working with support teams to address product bugs and enhancements related to terminology data
• Writing and maintaining internal terminologist workflow documentation
• Participating or leading other terminology-related efforts as needed

Availity culture and benefits:

• Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”, a “Best Workplaces for Technology Companies”, a “Best Workplaces for Women” and a “Best Workplaces for Millennials”!
• Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
• We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates. “AvaiLadies”, “Beyond Black”, “HOLA”, “Availity Pride”, “VetAvaility” a Young Professionals Group and “She Can Code IT” a group for women in tech are some of the groups you can get involved in.
• Availity is a culture of continuous learning. We have many resources and experts in our tech stack and in our industry that can help get you there too!
• We offer a competitive salary, bonus structure, generous HSA company contribution, healthcare, vision, dental benefits and a 401k match program that you can take advantage of on day one!
• We offer unlimited PTO for salaried associates + 9 paid holidays. Hourly associates start at 19 days of PTO and go up from there with all the same holiday benefits.
• Interested in wellness? We allow our associates to reimburse up to $250/year for gym memberships, participation in racing events, weight management programs, etc.
• Interested in furthering your education? We offer education reimbursement!
• Availity offers Paid Parental Leave for both moms and dads, both birth parents and adoptive parents.
• Want to work for an organization that gives back to the community? You’re at the right place! Availity partners with various organizations, both locally and nationally, to raise awareness, funds and morale as our staff members volunteer their time and funds to engage the organizations campaign.

Next steps:

After you apply, you will receive text/email messages thanking you for applying and then you will continue to receive more text/email messages alerting you as to where you are in the recruitment process.

Interview process:

• Recruiter resume review 
• Manager resume review 
• Recruiter video interview
• Manager video interview
• Team video interview
• Medical Director/Senior Product Director video interview

Availity is an equal opportunity employer and makes decisions in employment matters without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances.

 

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

 

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