Sr. Clinical Terminologist - MD en Imo-online

The Clinical Informatics department develops and maintains the content that powers IMO products.   Our Informatics & Terminology Engineering team includes clinical terminologists, non-clinical analysts, coding professionals, tool developers, and database experts. Clinical Terminologists collaborate across teams to build and maintain a robust corpus of clinical content using advanced tools designed by IMO software teams. As a Sr. Clinical Terminologist specializing in oncology, you’ll leverage your patient care experience and research skills to develop, QA, maintain, and enhance IMO’s terminology-based products – ensuring clinical integrity and supporting innovation in healthcare. This is an ideal role for a clinician who enjoys detailed analytical work, values precise language, and wants to make a meaningful impact on healthcare.  



WHAT YOU’LL DO:

Apply your oncology expertise to create and curate specialized terminology for cancer diagnoses, staging systems, treatment protocols, biomarkers, and emerging precision medicine concepts. 

Conduct research using medical journals and clinically valid sources to support terminology development and proactive content creation for evolving oncology needs. 

Populate and maintain complex, highly specialized terminology datasets using your medical knowledge and clinical experience. 

Create new terms and map them to standard terminologies (e.g., SNOMED CT, ICD-O, RxNorm, LOINC), including analysis, QA, and customer communication. 

Collaborate with clinical informaticists, product teams, and healthcare organizations to ensure oncology content meets real-world documentation and quality reporting needs. 

Provide clinical expertise for customer inquiries and requests, including direct communication when needed. 

Review updates to standardized terminologies and assess impacts on IMO Health content and products; perform maintenance and mapping updates as appropriate. 

Partner with sales and marketing teams to demonstrate clinical value of terminology solutions to prospective healthcare systems and cancer centers. 

Perform data analysis and discovery using database tools, including writing SQL queries. 

Maintain and expand your clinical knowledge to increase impact and effectiveness. 

Assess feasibility and level of effort for projects under guidance of technical leads. 

Identify, evaluate, and execute quality or process improvement initiatives. 

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

Medical degree (M.D. or D.O.) specializing in oncology (U.S. or international). 

Residency or equivalent clinical experience required; 5+ years clinical experience strongly preferred. 

Formal informatics training strongly preferred; 5+ years informatics experience a plus. 

M.S. in Informatics preferred. 

Experience with standardized clinical vocabularies (SNOMED CT, ICD-O, RxNorm, LOINC) strongly preferred. 

Excellent command of English and American medical terminology; familiarity with international vocabularies a plus. 

SQL skills a strong plus. 

Exceptional written and verbal communication skills. 

Passion for language precision and nuanced meaning. 

Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and able to see the big picture. 

Continuous improvement mindset with curiosity to ask “why.” 

Ability to apply learning across different scenarios. 

Willingness to lead projects and acquire new skills over time. 

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