Clinical Informaticist, Research Informatics

Montefiore Health System hires a Clinical Informaticist, Research Informatics, to connect clinical and research teams with data, tools, and technical expertise. The role supports effective use and interpretation of clinical data, translates user needs into practical improvements, and advances care, research, and operational decision-making.

Responsibilities

• Partner with clinicians, investigators, operational leaders, and information technology teams as a liaison and advocate for users of clinical data and informatics services
• Clarify clinical, research, and quality questions; translate them into feasible data requests, workflow needs, and technical requirements
• Guide users in the appropriate use and interpretation of electronic health record data, clinical data repositories or warehouses, cohort discovery tools, and related analytics resources
• Help researchers identify and use fit-for-purpose data for study feasibility, cohort identification, clinical trials, and other research activities, in coordination with applicable data access and governance processes
• Work with data, application, and clinical teams to investigate data questions, explain data definitions and limitations, and resolve barriers to effective use
• Identify and communicate data quality issues; recommend approaches to document provenance, limitations, and data quality considerations that support reproducible analysis
• Contribute to the design and improvement of data sources, informatics tools, reports, and support services by gathering user needs and translating them into actionable recommendations
• Promote practices that support appropriate access, privacy, security, regulatory compliance, and responsible use of clinical information
• Apply knowledge of clinical workflows and health care data to identify opportunities to improve user experience, efficiency, care delivery, and research productivity
• Provide consultation, education, and clear documentation to help clinical and research users understand available data and tools
• Participate in institutional, regional, and national research or informatics initiatives; contribute to working groups, presentations, and grant development as appropriate
• Follow questions through to resolution, communicate status and outcomes to requestors, and recommend durable solutions when recurring issues arise

Preferred

• Experience with clinical data analysis, quality improvement, or performance improvement
• Familiarity with clinical data models, terminology, cohort discovery methods, or common data standards used in health care research
• Experience supporting clinical research, clinical trials, or data-enabled improvement initiatives
• Clinical Data Analysis
• Quality Improvement
• Performance Improvement
• Clinical Data Models
• Clinical Terminology
• Cohort Discovery
• Healthcare Data Standards
• Clinical Research Support
• Clinical Trial Support
• Data-Enabled Improvement Initiatives

Company

• Academic health system providing specialized patient care and medical education
• Bronx, New York, USA
• https://www.montefiorehealthsystem.org/
• Founded in 1884
• 10001+ employees

Qualifications

• MD, PhD, or master's degree in a relevant clinical, health, informatics, data, or research discipline
• At least two years of clinical or research experience working with inpatient and/or outpatient health care data
• Experience using or implementing clinical information systems
• Experience working collaboratively with clinicians and researchers
• Strong communication, analytical, problem-solving, and relationship-building skills; ability to explain complex data concepts to audiences with varied technical backgrounds
• Experience with clinical data analysis, quality improvement, or performance improvement
• Familiarity with clinical data models, terminology, cohort discovery methods, or common data standards used in health care research
• Experience supporting clinical research, clinical trials, or data-enabled improvement initiatives
• At least two years of clinical or research experience working with inpatient and/or outpatient health care data.

Required skills

• Clinical Data Analysis, Clinical Data Models, Clinical Research, Clinical Trials, Cohort Discovery, Healthcare Data, Healthcare Data Standards, Healthcare Terminology

Preferred skills

• $16.68M, (12), (13), (2), (5), *2026, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026-10-15, 68, Accounting and Finance, Bronx, New York, USA, Customer Service and Support, Data Powered by, Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship, Engineering and Development, Grant· $9.68M, H1B Sponsorship, Key Investors, Late Stage, Management and Executive, National Institutes of Health, New York State Department of Health, Product Management, Represents job field similar to this job, Total Funding, Trends of Total Sponsorships, https://www.montefiorehealthsystem.org

Experience

• 2+ years