Health Informatics / Terminology SME

The role

This Subject Matter Expert provides health informatics and terminology expertise for NLM external UMLS user engagements. The role involves interpreting findings involving biomedical terminology, interoperability, FHIR, APIs, and mappings.

What you will do

• Participate in selected interviews, listening sessions, and follow-up discussions.
• Help formulate technically appropriate questions and clarify user workflows, dependencies, terminology models, mappings, interfaces, and data-exchange use cases.
• Interpret technically complex user feedback.
• Assist the engagement team in documenting and synthesizing technical findings.
• Identify questions requiring additional NLM or stakeholder follow-up.
• Provide subject matter context when evaluating potential UMLS improvement or modernization opportunities.

Required qualifications

• Demonstrated expertise in health informatics, biomedical terminology, terminology systems, interoperability, or a closely related field.
• Knowledge of UMLS and/or comparable biomedical terminology resources and their use in Health IT environments.
• Ability to communicate complex technical and terminology concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced education in health informatics, biomedical informatics, information science, computer science, biomedical science, healthcare, or a related field, or equivalent specialized experience.

Nice to have

• Experience with terminology modeling, mappings, FHIR, APIs, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, or Health IT interoperability standards.
• Experience working with terminology consumers, developers, informaticians, data architects, researchers, or healthcare technology organizations.

Benefits

• medical, dental and vision coverage
• 401k plan with employer contribution
• paid holidays
• vacation
• tuition reimbursement

About the company

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is an organization that operates within the intersection of technology and health.