Clinical Informatics Specialist

Opportunity

Are you an experienced nurse, pharmacist, or other clinician with an interest in working health informatics?  Would you like to work in a high tech environment helping to build a state of the art health search engine?

Whether you are an experienced clinician interested in becoming part of the emerging field of informatics, or an experienced informaticist seeking to join a new high tech company, this position could be a perfect fit. We are seeking clinicians interested in a Clinical Informatics Specialist position to join our Medical Informatics Group. Informaticists collaborate with our software engineering and user interface design teams to develop Web-based applications that integrate healthcare information for consumers, patients and medical professionals.

Responsibilities

• Organizing medical subjects and assigning appropriate concepts from medical terminologies; developing graphical representations of medical concept relationships; managing and transforming medical terminology. Requires attention to detail and excellent critical thinking skills.
• Ensuring QA, accuracy, relevancy and completeness of medical topic content as a member of our team.
• Researching healthcare topics of emerging professional and popular interest; extending our range of medical topics and expanding our topic content.
• Identifying ways of improving our products, product development, and content development processes; communicating these ideas effectively.

• Broad clinical experience.
• Minimum B.S. in Nursing OR Pharmacy required.  Advanced degree preferred.
• Advanced competency with medical terminologies.
• Sufficient computer skills to be able to view and edit content through a spread sheet (MS Excel), a word processor (MS Word) or an internet browser.
• Superior interpersonal skills; enthusiasm and ability to collaborate with a wide range of co-workers from software engineering, user interface design, product development, marketing and management.
• Experience within the area of patient education and the design and creation of consumer educational materials.
• Advanced training and experience in medical informatics (preferred).
• Working knowledge or prior experience in dealing with medical dictionaries such as MeSH, SNOMED, for example (preferred).
• Working knowledge of health plan or clinical software systems (preferred).

We offer the choice of a contract position or a competitive compensation and benefits package along with the opportunity to work in an exiting, challenging and team-oriented environment.

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About Healthline

Healthline Networks offers an innovative approach to meeting the needs of today’s health information seeker. The company’s unique consumer healthcare taxonomy, the largest of its kind, powers a suite of intelligent health search, navigation and content services. Combining advanced search technology with deep medical expertise, Healthline and its business partners—a network of trusted destination sites that include publishers, portals, search engines, employers and health plans—help consumers navigate the complex world of healthcare information, empowering them to make more confident, informed decisions. Headquartered in San Francisco, Healthline is backed by Aetna Ventures, Peacock Equity, JHK Investments LLC, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, Mitsui & Co., Ltd., Reed Elsevier Ventures, U.S. News and World Report, and VantagePoint Venture Partners.

Healthline is centrally located in the South Beach neighborhood in San Francisco.  We are located a few blocks from the San Francisco bay and AT&T Ball Park.  The Embarcadero Center restaurants and shops, museums and ferry are reachable within minutes via local streetcar and subway. The office is dog-friendly.

To apply, email your resume and cover letter to careers@healthline.com. Please identify your submission by placing “Clinical Informatics Specialist” in the subject line.