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Data/AI Scientist II

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$95K - $127K/yr

About this role At Waymark, our data science work is grounded in a specific and meaningful challenge: using claims, EHR, and care worker data to help community health workers, social workers ...

Design reusable data platforms that support multiple healthcare clients rather than one-off ... Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Engineering, Information Systems , or a related ...

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The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, comfortable working with data, and interested in developing their career in healthcare analytics and business intelligence. Duties and ...

Our team brings together deep expertise in health economics, actuarial science, data science, policy analysis, and advanced analytics to help clients address complex questions involving healthcare ...

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Lead Data Scientist

San Francisco, CA · On-site

$200K - $225K/yr

What we're looking for: * 8+ years of experience in data science or advanced analytics (preferably in healthcare or health plans; experience with claims and clinical data strongly preferred). * Deep ...

About the Role The Data Analyst plays a key role in monitoring, managing, and improving healthcare data file exchanges across clients, vendors, and internal systems. This role sits within a DataOps ...

About the Role The Data Analyst plays a key role in monitoring, managing, and improving healthcare data file exchanges across clients, vendors, and internal systems. This role sits within a DataOps ...

About the Role The Data Analyst plays a key role in monitoring, managing, and improving healthcare data file exchanges across clients, vendors, and internal systems. This role sits within a DataOps ...

The Opportunity As part of the Operations Consulting team, you will apply advanced data science and ... care and improve population health outcomes for our payer clients. As a Manager, you will lead ...

The Opportunity As part of the Operations Consulting team, you will apply advanced data science and ... care and improve population health outcomes for our payer clients. As a Manager, you will lead ...

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How much do freelance healthcare data science jobs pay per hour?

As of Aug 21, 2026, the average hourly pay for freelance healthcare data science in the United States is $47.71, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $24.28 and $61.78 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is freelance healthcare data science?

Freelance healthcare data science involves working independently to analyze and interpret medical and healthcare-related data for various clients, such as hospitals, research organizations, or healthcare startups. Freelancers in this field use statistical techniques, machine learning, and data visualization tools to help improve patient outcomes, streamline operations, or support medical research. They often handle data cleaning, predictive modeling, and reporting, typically working remotely or on a project basis. Healthcare data science freelancers must be familiar with healthcare regulations and data privacy standards, such as HIPAA, to ensure compliance.

How do freelance healthcare data scientists typically collaborate with clinical teams and stakeholders?

Freelance healthcare data scientists often work closely with clinical professionals, IT teams, and administrative stakeholders to understand project goals and translate complex data findings into actionable insights. Collaboration usually involves regular virtual meetings, data-sharing protocols, and clear communication channels to ensure alignment on objectives. Freelancers must be proactive in clarifying requirements, explaining methodologies, and presenting results in a way that is accessible to non-technical team members. Building strong relationships and demonstrating adaptability are key to effective, ongoing collaboration in this role.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a freelance healthcare data scientist?

To thrive as a Freelance Healthcare Data Scientist, you need strong analytical skills, proficiency in statistics, and a background in fields like computer science, mathematics, or life sciences, often supported by a relevant degree. Expertise in programming languages (such as Python or R), experience with healthcare data systems (like EHRs), and familiarity with HIPAA regulations or certifications are typically required. Excellent communication, self-management, and problem-solving abilities help you effectively convey insights to clients and manage multiple projects independently. These skills are crucial for delivering actionable, compliant data solutions that improve healthcare outcomes and support client needs.
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Healthcare Data Scientist & AI Solutions

BioVid

Bristol, PA • On-site

Full-time

Re-posted 14 hours ago


Job description

BioVid is transforming pharmaceutical market research by replacing slow, traditional methodologies with AI-augmented data systems.

In this role, you will personally analyze the data to uncover HCP prescribing behavior and behavioral insights. You will help bridge quantitative real-world data with qualitative market research, and play a key role in developing synthetic audiences ("Digital Twins") that mirror healthcare provider prescribing behavior and patient treatment journeys, while enabling scalable forecasting, segmentation, and market intelligence solutions.


Must-Have Qualifications


Hands-on analysis of medical / pharmacy claims data (EHR preferred)

Direct, hands-on experience analyzing the data itself - not only engineering it. You can extract and predict HCP prescribing behavior for specific drugs, for specific conditions, in specific treatment areas, and tag HCP qualitative / attitudinal segments to NPIs, associating those segments with real prescribing behavior. HIPAA requirements fluent (most of our data will be deidentified)

  • Analyze medical and pharmacy claims to extract and predict HCP prescribing behavior for specific drugs, conditions, and treatment areas.
  • Perform HCP / patient segmentation, demand forecasting, journey mapping, modeling
  • Help build Synthetics, simulated segments and HCP equivalents.
  • Machine Learning experience in modeling training and evaluating models (LLM fine tuning, training a nice to have)
  • Tag qualitative / attitudinal HCP segments to NPIs and link them to observed prescribing behavior.
  • Translate these analyses into actionable segmentation, targeting, and forecasting insights.


Data Cleaning, Processing, Augmentation and Transformation

  • Data cleaning, scarcity, gap analysis, joining and data augmentation, transformation to create partitions, data marts and analytics workspaces for analysis and modeling in AWS/Athena.

Key Responsibilities


Data Integration & Modeling

  • Data cleaning, scarcity, gap analysis, joining and data augmentation, transformation to create partitions, data marts and analytics workspaces for analysis and modeling inAWS/Athena.
  • Resolve identity matching, tokenization, and data harmonization challenges across disparate sources.
  • Build scalable, tested, and version-controlled data models using dbt on AWS/Athena.


Data Quality, Governance & Compliance

  • Implement automated data quality checks using tools such as Great Expectations or equivalent.


Analytics, AI & Machine Learning

  • Conduct advanced exploratory data analysis (EDA) and feature engineering using SQL, Python, pandas, and numpy.
  • Analyze claims data to model and predict HCP prescribing behavior by drug, condition, and treatment area, and associate attitudinal segments with NPIs.
  • Build AI-powered synthetic provider and patient personas grounded in real-world claims distributions.
  • Develop methods to scale qualitative research insights into national quantitative projections.
  • Machine Learning experience in modeling training and evaluating models. (LLM fine tuning and training a nice to have
  • Perform (or help perform) and automate pharmaceutical market research including:
  • HCP segmentation
  • Demand forecasting
  • Patient journey mapping
  • Audience simulation


API & Product Delivery

  • Build and maintain performant backend APIs using FastAPI, deployed on AWS (e.g., ECS/Fargate, App Runner, or Lambda).
  • Deliver data products, personas, and insights to internal tools and client-facing applications.


Skills & Experience

  • 5+ years in Analytics Engineering, Data Engineering, Data Science, or similar roles.
  • Proven ownership of end-to-end data pipelines and scalable analytics systems on AWS.
  • Hands-on experience with AWS data and analytics tooling, including Athena, S3, Glue, and SageMaker (AWS is the primary environment).
  • Strong experience with healthcare claims and EHR data (Rx, Dx, medical, pharmacy) and major data vendors such as IQVIA, Komodo, Symphony, or Definitive Healthcare.
  • Demonstrated hands-on analysis of medical/pharmacy claims to extract and predict HCP prescribing behavior and tag attitudinal segments to NPIs.
  • Expert SQL and strong Python skills, including pandas and large-scale data workflows.
  • Understanding of pharma market research, including patient journeys, HCP segmentation, and demand modeling.
  • Experience integrating survey or primary research data with large quantitative datasets.
  • Comfortable using AI coding assistants and agentic development tools to accelerate delivery.