Medical Terminologist

Medical Terminologist

Truveta is the world’s first health provider led data platform with a vision of Saving Lives with Data. Our mission is to enable researchers to find cures faster, empower every clinician to be an expert, and help families make the most informed decisions about their care. Achieving Truveta’s ambitious vision requires an incredible team of talented and inspired people with a special combination of health, software and big data experience who share our company values.  

Our headquarters are in the greater Seattle area, but we celebrate and embrace a remote culture. 

At Truveta, we believe that the high data quality will play a critical role in accomplishing our mission towards saving lives with data. An important component of this work is data normalization in which the medical terminology linking, and terminology management are essential in building deep intelligence empowering the new generation of clinical research.  

We are looking for a Medical Terminologist who will help to standardize the data sourced from different health systems. The responsibilities include identifying, creating, or validating mapping between medical terms from various healthcare system to standardized Terminologies and extending them.  

Key Qualifications

• Medical training and experience 
  • Education in Medicine or related fields (Nursing, Pharmacy, Clinical laboratory science, Medical Informatics, Medical Research, Medical scribing, medical coding…) 
  • 3+ years of experience in the field 
  • Understanding of Electronic Medical Records, including but not limited to reading medical charts, medication lists, lab reports, procedure notes...  
  • Understanding of vast medical terms and frequently used abbreviations  
• Medical standards and Terminologies mapping and modelling skills 
• • Hands-on experience in all of these medical terminologies: SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC; others are bonus  
  • Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office Products (Outlook, Excel, Word), using web-based tools to carry out mapping tasks 
• Quality Assurance skills
  • Ability to onboard and continuously train contracted Terminologists
  • Ability to review semantic mapping and/or ML assisted annotation results, modify if needed to ensure quality of mapping and annotation
  • Proactively leading Terminologists’ team discussion on annotation guidelines, come to consensus, and facilitate to update & maintain the guidelines 

• Project management skills 
  • Strong communication skills
  • Excel at collaboration with:
    • Internal functional teams including ML and tooling engineers, to provide ML training and feedback on the ML output; to request and verify tooling functionalities
    • External vendors for potential outsourcing including evaluation, trial co-ordination, onboarding, on-going training, and QA.  

Why Truveta?    

Be a part of building something special. Now is the perfect time to join Truveta. We have strong, established leadership with decades of success. We are well-funded. We are building a culture that prioritizes people and their passions across personal, professional and everything in between. Join us as we build an amazing company together.    

 We offer:    

• Interesting and meaningful work for every career stage    
• Competitive compensation    
• Comprehensive benefits for grown-ups, with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans   
• 401K plan   
• Professional development for continuous learning    
• Work/life autonomy via flexible work hours and flexible paid time off   
• Generous parental leave   
• Regular team activities (virtual and in-person as soon as we are able)  

Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contactors with diverse backgrounds enables Truveta to better meet our mission and serve patients and health communities around the world. We recognize that opportunities in technology historically excluded and continue to disproportionately exclude Black and Indigenous people, people of color, people from working class backgrounds, people with disabilities, and LGBTQIA+ people. We strongly encourage individuals with these identities to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements.