IT Consultant IV, Solutions - SNOMED CT, Clinical Coding, Epic, EHR, Informatics

Kaiser Permanente

Hyattsville, MD

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Best Practices, Business Case, Business Intelligence, Business Operations, Business Processes, Business Skills, Business Solutions, Business Support, Clinical Information Systems, Clinical Medicine, Clinical Research, Clinical Support, Code Reviews, Cost Analysis, Cross-Functional, Customer Support/Service, Data Modeling, Enterprise Architecture, Epic Systems, Green Business, Health Information Exchange (HIE), Healthcare, Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS), Healthcare Management, Healthcare Quality, Industry Standards, Informatics, Information Technology & Information Systems, Information Technology Consulting, International Classification of Diseases (ICD), Interoperability, Knowledge Representation, Machine Tool, Medical Coding, Medical Record System, Medical Records, Medical Terminology, Ontology, Operations Processes, Problem Solving Skills, Procedure Implementation, Process Improvement, Project Planning, Quality Assurance, Release Management/Engineering, Requirements Management, Return on Investment (ROI), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Software Administration, Team Lead/Manager, Technical Support, Test Case, Testing, Time Management, Total Cost of Ownership, Use Cases
LOCATION
Hyattsville, MD
POSTED
5 days ago

Job Summary:

The Concergent Data Modeler within the Convergent Medical Terminology team (CMT) is responsible for designing, maintaining, and optimizing clinical terminology models using SNOMED CT (Systematized Nomenclature of Medicine - Clinical Terms). This role supports interoperability, data normalization, and semantic precision in electronic health records (EHRs), clinical research, and healthcare analytics. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of clinical terminology systems, ontologies, and data modeling concepts within healthcare environments.

  • Fulfillment of terminology request for Procedures, diagnosis records coming from different KP markets.
  • Ability to data model, map terminology concepts to industry terminology standards such as, SNOMED, LOINC, ICD, CPT, HCPCs
  • Ability and/or having the capacity to learn -knowledge representation- logic to create, maintain subsets of clinical records to support reporting, business intelligence in the areas of best practice alerts, population and healthcare management, quality measurements, and health information exchanges.
  • Interface with a variety of business units and collaborate on request clarification, coding review, completion, and maintenance for production use.
  • The ability to translate business requirements to -technical speak- and interface with our technical team for tooling enhancements, quality assurance, business rules building, and use case and test case building of technical to business requirement enhancements.
  • Oversee (track, maintain, communicate, oversee ) SOX requirements with our release management process.

In addition to the responsibilities listed below, this position is responsible for providing support for customers (users), and assigned applications and/or information systems, including software implementation, integration, configuration, and testing. Additional responsibilities also include supporting solution design, researching how to help translate requirements into workable technical solutions, and supporting the evaluation of third-party vendors as directed.

Essential Responsibilities:

  • Completes work assignments and supports business-specific projects by applying expertise in subject area; supporting the development of work plans to meet business priorities and deadlines; ensuring team follows all procedures and policies; coordinating and assigning resources to accomplish priorities and deadlines; collaborating cross-functionally to make effective business decisions; solving complex problems; escalating high priority issues or risks, as appropriate; and recognizing and capitalizing on improvement opportunities.
  • Practices self-development and promotes learning in others by proactively providing information, resources, advice, and expertise with coworkers and customers; building relationships with cross-functional stakeholders; influencing others through technical explanations and examples; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; listening and responding to, seeking, and addressing performance feedback; providing feedback to others and managers; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; supporting team collaboration; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.
  • Develops requirements for complex process or system solutions within assigned business domain(s) by interfacing stakeholders and appropriate IT teams (for example, Solutions Delivery, Infrastructure, Enterprise Architecture) and leading junior team members in the development process as appropriate.
  • Leverages multiple business requirements gathering methodologies to identify business, functional, and non-functional requirements (for example, SMART) across multiple business domains.
  • Develops and documents comprehensive business cases to assess the costs, benefits, ROI, and Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of proposed solutions.
  • Provides insight and supports the evolution of applications, systems, and/or processes to a desired future state by maintaining a comprehensive understanding of how current processes impact business operations across multiple domains.
  • Maps current state against future state processes.
  • Identifies the impact of requirements on upstream and downstream solution components.
  • Provides recommendations to management and business stakeholders on how to integrate requirements with current systems and business processes across regions or domains.
  • Identifies and validates value gaps and opportunities for process enhancements or efficiencies.
  • Supports solution design by providing insight at design sessions with IT teams to help translate requirements into workable business solutions.
  • Identifies and recommends additional data and/or services needed to address key business issues related to process or solutions design.
  • Participates in evaluating third-party vendors as directed.
  • Supports continuous process improvement by participating in the development, implementation, and maintenance of standardized tools, templates, and processes across multiple business domains.
  • Recommends regional and/or national process improvements which align with sustainable best practices, and the strategic and tactical goals of the business.

About the Company

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Kaiser Permanente

At Kaiser Permanente, we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence. Driven by our mission to provide the highest quality preventive medicine, we are committed to eliminating health care disparities, and to making lives better through innovation, technology, and research. Our desire to deliver the best possible care inspires us to promote wellness among our members, communities, and each other. It also fuels our belief that everyone — regardless of circumstance — deserves access to affordable care, which further drives our motivation to expand our reach. Founded nearly 80 years ago, our unique business model sets us apart — positioning us to drive improvements across the industry and around the world.
COMPANY SIZE
10,000 employees or more
INDUSTRY
Healthcare Services
FOUNDED
1945
WEBSITE
http://www.kp.org/careers