Associate, Clinical Measurement and Informatics

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as subject matter expert and point of contact for clinical registry datasets, clinical terminology and healthcare informatics, ensuring standardization across all NCDR registry products.

• Responsible for maintaining clinical terminology standards as well as translating clinical terminology into recognized technical standards, including:

  • Standards for encoding diagnostic and procedure information, including ICD-9, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT and CPT-4

  • Standards for encoding laboratory results, such as LOINC

  • Standards for encoding healthcare administrative data, such as EDIFACT specifications for ASC X.12, HL7 ADT messages, and FHIR, as needed

  • Standards for health specialties (e.g., RxNorm for prescribing, and other workflows)

  • Standards for clinical trials and research (e.g., CDISC)

• Lead the development, maintenance, and implementation of hospital and ambulatory patient registries for NCDR, including:

  • Identifying target data elements, definitions, and data quality submission criteria and thresholds, aligned with national standards and in partnership with internal informatics experts.

  • Developing or updating data collection forms that are aligned with clinical workflow and minimize data collection burden.

  • Advising on the translation of data collection forms into data capture tools by IT, including supporting incorporation of voice of the customer and applying human-centered design principles.

• Standardize, update, and monitor ACC's Clinical Data Dictionary to ensure consistent, accurate terminology, definitions, and coding across all NCDR registries.

• Support the development, maintenance, and reporting of quality/performance measures and other complex quality indicators to NCDR participants, including:

  • Providing measurement expertise for a wide range of quality metrics, including but not limited to risk-adjusted outcome, appropriate use criteria, processes of care, and quality composite measures.

  • Working with NCDR's academic analytic center partners to develop models for risk-adjusted or complex measures, or other calculation algorithms.

  • Advising on the translation of measures into visual and quantitative displays, including benchmark groupings, by IT, including supporting incorporation of voice of the customer applying human-centered design principles.

  • Analyzing quality measures for healthcare and translating into recognizable electronic specification formats.

• Convene and collaborate with work groups of clinical and methodologic experts, and volunteer NCDR leadership, to ensure clinical sensibility during strategic planning and decision making for projects.

• Serve as staff liaison and/or content expert to internal committees and advisory work groups, including presenting measure and dataset work at committee meetings, seminars, and national conferences.

• Manage multiple projects simultaneously and independently while demonstrating a high degree of productivity and adherence to deadlines.

• Provide technical consultative guidance to internal teams to manage customer relations and address issues related to clinical datasets or measures.

• Lead or support tasks related to government or private contracts, dependent on need and funding.

• Other responsibilities and duties, as needed.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree preferably in public health, informatics, or related field.

• 5 + years of related work experience in performance measurement, quality improvement, clinical decision support, and/or medical informatics (at least 2 years must be directly related to informatics) with technical understanding of specification development and implementation of performance measures.

• Strong understanding of clinical terminology, informatics, evidence-based medicine, performance measurement, FHIR standards, electronic clinical quality measures or digital quality measures.

• Experience with standard health-related terminologies, e.g., SNOMED, ICD, CPT, LOINC, RxNorm, etc.

• Strong organizational and project management skills with the ability to organize multiple tasks and set priorities under strict deadlines.

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills.

• Ability to initiate and manage complex projects and to work independently.

• Ability to oversee and manage complex relationships.

• Ability work well in a team environment and to lead matrix project teams with physicians, executives, contractors, consultants, and other staff.

• Proficient with Windows-based Microsoft Office Suite.

Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree in public health, informatics, or related field preferred.

• Clinical experience or knowledge of cardiovascular medicine.

• Experience in outcome research or quality improvement processes.

• Public speaking and presentation skills.

• Familiarity with Agile development methods (scrum, kanban, etc.) and technical support platforms.

• Experience with industry informatics groups (AMIA, HL7, KIMSS)