Role Description
The Medical Officer and Clinical Informatics Technologist will provide advanced clinical, medical informatics, and health data expertise to support the CMS Innovation Center (CMMI). This role plays a key part in helping CMMI evaluate, design, and improve innovation model tests and health care delivery approaches by leveraging expertise in:
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Patient-led data sharing
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Remote patient monitoring
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Health data standards
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Interoperability
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Artificial intelligence
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Clinical quality analysis
The position supports engagements with clinicians, professional medical societies, informaticists, technologists, and additional stakeholders across government and the healthcare ecosystem.
Responsibilities
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Provide expert clinical and medical informatics guidance to leadership, staff, contractors, and industry stakeholders, leveraging deep knowledge of health data standards, interoperability frameworks, and clinical practice.
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Participate in strategy sessions with senior leadership to shape the design, evaluation, and direction of healthcare innovation models, drawing on advanced clinical judgment and informatics experience.
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Advise teams on emerging research, technologies, and best practices related to patient-led data sharing, remote patient monitoring, quality measurement, AI applications, and health system transformation.
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Evaluate and recommend data, technology, and interoperability solutions including standards-based exchange, analytics approaches, and tools supporting clinical quality and model performance.
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Review and contribute to policy development by providing substantive expert comments on internal CMMI model documentation, policy drafts, and operational design materials.
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Apply advanced analytical reasoning to complex, often ambiguous healthcare problems, identifying alternatives and developing long term, strategic solutions aligned with CMMI goals.
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Engage and collaborate with medical societies, clinicians, technologists, and informaticists to ensure credibility, clinical relevance, and cross sector alignment of CMMI work products.
Qualifications
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Deep expertise in clinical informatics, health data standards, interoperability, and quality assurance
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Experience working with AI tools, remote patient monitoring data, and patient-generated health data
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Ability to assess complex, vaguely defined problems and develop strategic solutions
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Familiarity with CMS/CMMI health system transformation goals
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Strong communication skills for cross-disciplinary collaboration
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Ability to provide high level clinical interpretation of data, models, and policy proposals
Requirements
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Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), with a specialty in Internal Medicine
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10+ years of relevant professional experience in clinical practice and medical/clinical informatics
Licensure/Certification
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Active, unrestricted medical license
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American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) Certification in Clinical Informatics
Benefits
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The range for this position is $70 to $80 hourly.