Decision Scientist, Clinical Informatics & Data Standards

CVS Health; Rhode Island; Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits (medical,Dental

Paid time off

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Bonus or incentive program

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Decision Scientist - Clinical Informatics to activate the clinical data repository and empower analysts and data scientists with well-documented data assets. You will bridge clinical data assets with stakeholders to ensure accessibility, quality, and regulatory alignment.

Responsibilities include building analytics-ready datasets, maintaining data dictionaries, and contributing to data governance.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in clinical informatics, healthcare analytics, or clinical data management.
• Familiar with CCD data, lab results, clinical notes, and administrative healthcare data.
• Knowledge of ICD-10, CPT, HCPCS, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, NDC, RxNorm.
• Ability to support downstream data consumers through documentation, training, and consultative support.
• Proficiency with SQL and large-scale healthcare datasets.
• Familiar with cloud-based data platforms, preferably Google Cloud Platform (GCP) tools including BigQuery.
• Understanding of data quality principles, validation, profiling, and monitoring of healthcare data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Become subject matter expert in clinical data, including CCD data.
• Build the clinical data feature store with standards, documentation, and best practices.
• Develop analytics by building well-documented, validated, and reusable data assets.
• Create and maintain comprehensive data documentation, including data dictionaries and lineage.
• Build queries, dashboards, and visualizations to communicate data quality and insights.
• Translate clinical concepts into analytical frameworks for business partners.
• Collaborate with data engineering to inform data pipeline development.
• Learn data governance practices, including HIPAA compliance.
• Stay current with HL7, FHIR, ICD-10, SNOMED-CT, LOINC, CPT, NDC, RxNorm.

Skills

SQL

Data governance principles

Communication skills

Clinical informatics knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in health informatics, public health, nursing, health information management, CS, statistics, or related field

Master's degree or higher in Health Informatics, Biomedical Informatics, Clinical Informatics, Public Health, Epidemiology, or related field

Tools

BigQuery

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Decision Scientist - Clinical Informatics to activate the clinical data repository and empower analysts and data scientists with well-documented data assets. You will bridge clinical data assets with stakeholders to ensure accessibility, quality, and regulatory alignment.

Responsibilities include building analytics-ready datasets, maintaining data dictionaries, and contributing to data governance.