Contract Medical Terminologist

Contract 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.  

In 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 contract 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. Our contracts will be about a year long with the potential for extensions.

Key Qualifications

• Education in Medicine or related fields (Nursing, Pharmacy, Clinical laboratory science, Medical Informatics, Medical Research, Medical scribing, medical coding…)
• 2+ 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 
• Experience in at least one of these medical terminologies: SNOMED CT, RxNorm, LOINC
• Attention to detail
• Effective communication skills
• Basic computer skills including Microsoft Office Products (Outlook, Excel, Word)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in clinical terminology mapping using SNOMED CT, LOINC or RxNorm.
• Experience in annotating training data for machine learning models.
• Certificate in SNOMED CT is a strong plus.

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.  

This will be a salaried position and hourly rate for this position is $35-45. The pay range reflects the minimum and maximum target. Pay is based on several factors including location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Certain roles are eligible for additional compensation such as incentive pay and stock options.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here.

Truveta is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace. We believe that having employees, interns, and contractors 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.