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Crouse Hospital

Clinical Abstraction LPN

Syracuse, NY

$22 - $32/hr

This role is ideal for nurses who are familiar with clinical terminology, medical coding, or healthcare data. Key responsibilities include chart review, data extraction & quality assurance. This ...

Crouse Hospital

Clinical Abstraction LPN

Syracuse, NY · On-site

$22 - $32/hr

This role is ideal for nurses who are familiar with clinical terminology, medical coding, or healthcare data. Key responsibilities include chart review, data extraction & quality assurance. This ...

Halcyon Hospice

Clinical Navigator - Marketing

Austin, TX · On-site

$19.50 - $25.75/hr

Serve as a trusted clinical resource, confidently communicating with physicians and healthcare professionals using appropriate clinical terminology. * Conduct in-person visits to physician offices ...

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InterSystems

Clinical Informatics Specialist

Boston, MA · On-site

Clinical Terminology Management * Serve as the subject matter expert on standard terminologies and code sets, (e.g., SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10, CPT/HCPCS, RxNorm). * Define concept maps and value sets ...

Halcyon Home LLC

Clinical Navigator - Marketing

Austin, TX · On-site

$75K - $85K/yr

Serve as a trusted clinical resource, confidently communicating with physicians and healthcare professionals using appropriate clinical terminology. * Conduct in-person visits to physician offices ...

D4C Dental Brands

Clinical Systems Analyst

Atlanta, GA · On-site

Basic understanding of healthcare workflows and clinical terminology. * Analytical and problem-solving mindset. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate ...

D4C Dental Brands

Clinical Systems Analyst

Atlanta, GA · On-site

Basic understanding of healthcare workflows and clinical terminology. * Analytical and problem-solving mindset. * Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate ...

Noah Medical

Sr. Clinical Engineer

Sunnyvale, CA · Hybrid

Knowledge of basic anatomy, clinical terminology, and general surgical techniques. * Knowledge of fundamentals of robotics or electromechanical systems. * Experience in the regulated medical device ...

Embark Behavioral Health

Clinical Director

Bend, OR · On-site

$105K - $115K/yr

Strong knowledge of DSMIV/VTR, clinical terminology, and a wide range of therapeutic modalities. * Understanding of documentation, compliance standards, and confidentiality laws. * Proficiency with ...

Embark Behavioral Health

Clinical Director

Bend, OR · On-site

$105K - $115K/yr

Strong knowledge of DSM-IV/V-TR, clinical terminology, and a wide range of therapeutic modalities. * Understanding of documentation, compliance standards, and confidentiality laws. * Proficiency with ...

Northwell

Clinical Research Assistant

Manhasset, NY · On-site

$39K - $59K/yr

Experience with clinical terminology, highly preferred *Additional Salary Detail The salary range and/or hourly rate listed is a good faith determination of potential base compensation that may be ...

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As of Aug 18, 2026, the average hourly pay for clinical terminologist in the United States is $34.62, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $16.59 and $32.93 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a clinical terminologist?

A Clinical Terminologist is a specialist who manages and standardizes medical terminology within healthcare systems to ensure accurate and consistent documentation, coding, and data exchange. They work with clinical vocabularies like SNOMED CT, ICD, and LOINC to improve interoperability and support healthcare analytics. Their role is essential for enhancing data quality, supporting decision-making, and ensuring regulatory compliance in electronic health records (EHRs) and other health IT systems.

What does a clinical terminologist do?

As a Clinical Terminologist, your daily work typically includes developing, mapping, and maintaining clinical vocabularies and terminologies used in healthcare information systems. You’ll collaborate closely with clinicians, IT professionals, and data analysts to ensure clinical data is accurately captured and coded for interoperability and reporting. Tasks often involve reviewing medical documentation, validating term usage, and updating databases to comply with evolving standards. This role may also require providing guidance and training to staff on terminology best practices, contributing to ongoing projects like EHR optimization or regulatory updates. The environment is detail-oriented, collaborative, and focused on improving the quality and usability of healthcare data.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a clinical terminologist?

To thrive as a Clinical Terminologist, you need a strong background in clinical coding, informatics, and healthcare terminology management, typically supported by a degree in health information management, clinical informatics, or a related field. Familiarity with terminology standards (such as SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD-10), health IT systems, and certifications like AHIMA Certified Coding Specialist (CCS) are highly valuable. Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and effective communication skills are key soft skills for translating clinical language and collaborating with healthcare teams. These skills are crucial to ensure accurate and standardized data representation across electronic health records, supporting quality patient care and regulatory compliance.

How to become a clinical terminologist?

To become a clinical terminologist, individuals typically need a bachelor's degree in health information management, medical coding, or a related field. Gaining experience with medical terminology, coding systems like SNOMED CT or ICD, and obtaining certifications such as the Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA) can enhance job prospects.
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Infographic showing various Clinical Terminologist job openings in the United States as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 4% As Needed, 70% Full Time, 17% Part Time, and 9% Contract. Highlights an 94% Physical, 1% Hybrid, and 5% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $72,002 per year, or $34.6 per hour.

Principal Clinical Informaticist - Clinical Intelligence

Truveta

Seattle, WA • On-site

Part-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, Retirement, PTO

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Job description

Principal Clinical Informaticist - Clinical Intelligence
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.
Truveta was born in the Pacific Northwest, but we have employees who live across the country. Our team enjoys the flexibility of a hybrid model and working from anywhere. In person attendance is required at least once per year for an onsite meeting.
For overall team productivity, we optimize meeting hours in the pacific time zone. We avoid scheduling recurring meetings that start after 3pm PT, however, ad hoc meetings occur between 8am-6pm Pacific time. #LI-remote
Who We Need
Truveta is rapidly building a talented and diverse team to tackle complex health and technical challenges. Beyond core capabilities, we are seeking problem solvers, passionate and collaborative teammates, and those willing to roll up their sleeves while making a difference. If you are interested in the opportunity to pursue purposeful work, join a mission-driven team, and build a rewarding career while having fun, Truveta may be the perfect fit for you.
This Opportunity
We are seeking a Principal Clinical Informaticist - Clinical Intelligence to join the Catalysts team.
Catalysts enables customers to unlock the full value of Truveta's data, products, and intelligence offerings through practical solutions, reusable assets, and customer-facing enablement.
In this role, you will help define how Truveta Intelligence understands and reasons about healthcare data, evidence generation, and analytical workflows. You will transform healthcare expertise into reusable intelligence capabilities that enable both users and AI systems to make better decisions at scale.
The primary focus of this role is developing reasoning frameworks, decision guides, and intelligence capabilities that improve how Truveta Intelligence interprets healthcare data and supports analytical workflows. These capabilities serve as the foundation for both AI experiences and human-facing guidance.
The ideal candidate combines deep expertise in healthcare data, clinical terminology, healthcare methodology, and hands-on analytical problem solving. They are comfortable moving between data exploration, methodological reasoning, and knowledge creation to improve how AI systems and users work with healthcare data. They enjoy simplifying complex topics, creating scalable knowledge systems, and shaping the future of AI-assisted healthcare analytics.
Key Responsibilities
Clinical intelligence and reasoning frameworks
    • Identify high-value healthcare and analytical concepts that should be encoded into Truveta Intelligence.
    • Develop reasoning frameworks, decision guides, and intelligence capabilities that improve how AI systems interpret healthcare data and support analytical workflows.
    • Translate healthcare expertise into scalable capabilities that improve analytical consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.
    • Help define best practices for how Truveta Intelligence approaches healthcare and analytical challenges.
    • Continuously evaluate and improve intelligence capabilities based on adoption, performance, and user feedback.
    • Identify emerging opportunities where AI can accelerate healthcare analytics and evidence generation.

Example topic: How censoring should be handled in EHR-based research, including practical limitations, tradeoffs, and implementation considerations.
Healthcare data, terminology, and methodology
    • Serve as a subject matter expert on EHR and real-world healthcare data.
    • Use SQL, R, Python, and related tools to investigate healthcare data, validate assumptions, evaluate methodologies, and support intelligence development.
    • Develop guidance around healthcare data characteristics, limitations, and analytical tradeoffs.
    • Define and justify approaches for identifying clinical events, conditions, procedures, medications, and outcomes using healthcare data.
    • Apply clinical knowledge, healthcare terminology expertise, and practical EHR understanding to create robust and explainable approaches.
    • Provide expertise on ICD, SNOMED, CPT, HCPCS, LOINC, RxNorm, and related healthcare standards.
    • Help ensure intelligence capabilities reflect real-world healthcare data rather than idealized assumptions.
    • Establish practical best practices for healthcare data interpretation and evidence generation.
Product and intelligence partnership
    • Partner closely with Intelligence, Product, and Engineering teams to ensure healthcare expertise is effectively integrated into user experiences.
    • Identify gaps where clinical and healthcare expertise can improve AI capabilities and user outcomes.
    • Help prioritize future intelligence capabilities based on customer needs, observed limitations, and adoption signals.
    • Influence roadmap decisions through healthcare expertise, analytical evidence, and practical experience.
    • Measure the impact and usage of developed intelligence capabilities.
    • Act as a bridge between healthcare methodology, healthcare data, and AI capabilities.

Required Qualifications
  • Advanced degree in public health, epidemiology, health services research, clinical informatics, medicine, pharmacy, nursing, healthcare analytics, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of experience working with EHR, claims, registry, or other large-scale healthcare datasets.
  • Deep understanding of healthcare data, clinical workflows, healthcare terminology, and evidence generation methodologies.
  • Strong familiarity with ICD, SNOMED, CPT, HCPCS, LOINC, RxNorm, and related healthcare standards.
  • Experience working directly with healthcare data using SQL, R, Python, or similar analytical tools.
  • Ability to independently investigate healthcare data, validate assumptions, and evaluate methodological approaches.
  • Demonstrated ability to define, justify, and communicate approaches for identifying clinical events, conditions, procedures, medications, and outcomes.
  • Comfortable moving between conceptual reasoning and hands-on data exploration.
  • Experience teaching, mentoring, or translating complex healthcare concepts into practical guidance.
  • Demonstrated ability to independently identify, prioritize, and execute high-value initiatives.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience using generative AI and related tools to accelerate analytical, educational, or knowledge-management workflows.

Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience in clinical informatics, medical informatics, healthcare intelligence, healthcare knowledge management, or healthcare education.
  • Experience collaborating with Product, Engineering, or AI teams.
  • Experience evaluating how domain expertise can be translated into AI-assisted workflows.
  • Experience developing guidance around healthcare terminology, coding practices, healthcare data interpretation, or evidence generation methodologies.
  • Experience working with retrieval systems, knowledge systems, prompt engineering, AI evaluation, or related AI technologies.
  • Experience presenting and teaching complex healthcare concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience developing scalable approaches to knowledge transfer and expert enablement.
  • Experience creating analytical prototypes, validation studies, or exploratory analyses to evaluate healthcare data methodologies.

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
  • Great benefits package
  • Comprehensive benefits with strong medical, dental and vision insurance plans
  • 401K plan
  • Professional development & training opportunities 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)
  • The base pay for this position is $205,000 to $235,000. 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.
Please note that all applicants must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer as we are unable to sponsor work visas or permits (e.g. F-1 OPT, H1-B) at this time. We appreciate your interest in the position and encourage you to explore future opportunities with us.

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