Health Informatics / Terminology SME

Black Canyon Consulting (BCC) is seeking a Health Informatics / Terminology SME to support NLM external UMLS. This part-time Subject Matter Expert (SME) position provides targeted health informatics and terminology expertise for technically focused UMLS user engagements. The SME helps NLM and the user-engagement team accurately understand and interpret findings involving UMLS, biomedical terminology, terminology modeling, interoperability, FHIR, APIs, mappings, and related Health IT use cases.

If you are interested in being a part of an organization that operates within the intersection of technology and health, please apply today!

• →Participate in selected interviews, listening sessions, and follow-up discussions where specialized UMLS, terminology, interoperability, or Health IT expertise is needed.
• →Help formulate technically appropriate questions and clarify user workflows, dependencies, terminology models, mappings, interfaces, and data-exchange use cases.
• →Interpret technically complex user feedback and help distinguish terminology, data-model, interoperability, API, mapping, and implementation considerations.
• →Assist the engagement team in accurately documenting and synthesizing technical findings and identifying questions requiring additional NLM or stakeholder follow-up.
• →Provide subject matter context as needed when evaluating potential UMLS improvement or modernization opportunities identified through user engagement.

• 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.

• 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.

Advanced education in health informatics, biomedical informatics, information science, computer science, biomedical science, healthcare, or a related field, or equivalent specialized experience.