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 12 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.
The Clinical Informatics team at Availity operates at the exciting intersection of healthcare and information technology. The team is charged with being Availity’s clinical center of excellence. This team builds and maintains the proprietary mapping and intellectual property of Availity’s clinical solutions at large. Reporting to the Medical Director of Clinical Informatics, the Clinical Informatician will be a key member in the clinical informatics and terminology department. In this role, you will use your specialized clinical informatics experience, FHIR and CDA expertise to work closely with product, terminology, and development teams to help implement clinical informatics and data interoperability best practices, inform product design, and meet a wide variety of complex cross-team goals.
This is a complex role in a fast-paced environment that spans multiple responsibilities and requires working across different teams. Examples of your day-to-day work will include authoring C-CDA and FHIR data transformation requirements, working directly with engineering teams to support implementation and testing; engaging with HL7 standards communities to influence future implementation guides; and acting as a clinical informatics team mentor and leader to ensure continued support and growth of all team members. In addition, you will play a key role in assessing how our product development can best stay aligned to the evolving HL7 and USCDI standards and anticipate how our product roadmap should be shaped based on evolving specifications. Your unique skillset will make you a key resource in FHIR product planning and in clinical informatics cross-department initiatives.
Sponsorship, in any form, is not available for this position.
Location: Remote, US
Why you want to work on this team:
- The Clinical Informatics team is the foundation of our product – tell me about impactful work!
- This team is highly collaborative and constantly engages with each other via team and individual efforts to ensure project execution and team success, while allowing for creativity and innovation.
- Fun, fast-paced, and flexible work environment where you are encouraged to bring your authentic self every day in the pursuit of serving our customers.
To be qualified for this position you:
- 3+ years combined clinical informatics or informatics-based product development experience.
- Domain expertise in healthcare business, clinical data, and various HL7 standards (e.g., C-CDA, HL7v2, USCDI).
- Experience working with customers to understand their complex data use cases to guide requirements writing and refinement, and experience working directly with engineering teams to deliver against those requirements.
- Develop and maintain architecture across different data models which includes guiding principles, standards, and patterns.
- Hands-on experience with information architecture and clinical data solution design.
- Bachelor’s degree in clinical informatics, information technology, or a clinical discipline with extensive informatics experience; master’s degree preferred but not required.
- Analytical skills with hands-on experience in identifying, quantifying, and effectively raising risks associated with clinical data quality and data standards compliance.
- Working experience with standardized clinical terminology code sets (e.g., SNOMED-CT, ICD-10, LOINC, RxNorm, etc.).
- Strong communication and collaboration skills with capability to execute with business and technology stakeholders.
- Have flexibility to partner with and negotiate with various personality types at all levels within and outside the organization.
You will set yourself apart with:
- You have a unique and specialized clinical informatics skill set with proven success in HL7-related product development.
- Experience working with real-world data and delivering against customer use cases related to that data.
- Hands-on experience with clinical data modeling to support large-scale structured, semi-structured and unstructured data storage and translation.
- Logical thinker and posses expert organizational and complex problem-solving skills.
- Constantly seek to evolve and improve current processes.
- Experience working with customers.
- Thrive in fast-paced environments and when working on vastly complex projects.
- Natural leader amongst your peers.
You will be:
- Using your specialized informatics experience and creativity to design FHIR applications and complex data solutions.
- Integrating with and guiding engineering teams to deliver and test those solutions.
- Working directly with customers to understand their data use cases, writing detailed requirements and acceptance tests to deliver superior quality solutions against those use cases, and educating customers on how to use our product to meet those use cases.
- Writing and maintaining detailed internal and external-facing product documentation.
- Through leadership and influence, using your subject matter expertise to guide product planning and other cross-department initiatives to meet business needs.
- Liaising with standards organizations and actively participating in future implementation guide development.
- Guiding our HL7 product strategy and roadmap by tracking how the HL7 standard is evolving amidst the standards community and how HL7 is being adopted and implemented in the broader market.
- Participating and leading other informatic and terminology-related efforts as needed.
Availity culture and benefits:
- Availity is a certified “Great Place to Work”! Culture is important to us and there are many ways for you to make your mark here!
- We have several Diversity & Inclusion teams, a Young Professionals Group, a She Can Code IT group for women in tech, and various ways to engage with fellow Availity associates.
- 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!
- Don’t feel like wearing business attire? Cool, you can wear jeans – we are a casual place.
- 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 Recorded Video Pre-Screen
- Video Interview with Hiring Manager
- Video Interview with Senior Director, Product Management
- Peer Panel 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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