Clinical Informaticist II

Our Team

Dandelion Health was founded in 2020 by experts in health tech, hospital systems, academia, and clinical AI. We are building the world’s largest AI training and clinical development platform. Today, we pride ourselves on our ability to make data access as easy as possible for AI developers, pharma, and medical devices, while raising the bar for patient safety and data quality. Tomorrow, we will be the place where any healthcare organization can go to build a responsible clinical AI product. Our culture is all about learning from data and improving, so we can help our clients improve health through AI. Meet the rest of our team here.

Our Data

We partner with health systems to safely and ethically make their de-identified patient data available to AI developers. Currently, the data is acquired from Sharp HealthCare, Sanford Health, and Texas Health Resources – with two additional U.S. health systems joining soon.

We have clinical data dating back to July 1, 2016. This data represents over 10 million patients and includes but is not limited to:

• Structured data (e.g., 100% of the EMR, including some claims)

• Unstructured text (e.g., clinical notes, radiology reports)

• Images (e.g., DICOM, pathology)

• Video

• Waveforms

• Continuous streaming monitoring data

Your Role

You are a technically strong, medically trained individual with a health informatics background who knows your way around clinical and health record data. Your primary responsibility is to own and be responsible for interpreting and analyzing data from hospital systems and clinical workflows to develop meaningful Dandelion data models that accurately represent a patient’s healthcare journey. This role bridges clinical practice and data engineering by guiding the representation of clinical concepts, workflows, and outcomes within scalable data models used for analytics, clinical trials, and regulatory-grade evidence generation.

You are not afraid to dig into massive, confusing, and disorganized new datasets and get them under control. You are excited to learn new environments, languages, and skills. This is a small, early-stage company with enormous ambitions.

Responsibilities

• Query complex source systems in a variety of health data sources (e.g., EMRs, ECG data, DICOM data) to identify and map data tables and their contents

• Define and govern clinical vocabularies, ontologies, and phenotypes, ensuring client datasets accurately reflect real world care delivery, clinical decision making, and patient trajectories

• Guide clinical informatics decisions on choosing clinical vocabularies and ontologies (e.g., ICD, SNOMED, LOINC, CPT), and develop concept harmonization and terminology mapping strategies

• Develop Dandelion data models by reconciling different healthcare systems’ datasets and mapping data fields to standardized clinical ontologies, enabling harmonization across disparate health systems and ensuring data elements reflect clinical concepts

• Partner with data scientists to validate clinical accuracy, interpretability, and appropriate use of data while proactively identifying risks related to data quality, misrepresentation, or misuse

• Summarize complexity of Dandelion and health system data discovery, data structures, and operations into clear explanations and documentation for both internal and external audiences

• Support all phases of SQL/analytical programming, data management, quality control, and reporting on our informatics approach

• Create summarized findings and recommendations on Dandelion’s informatics approach, clearly presented and adapted for audiences with a range of technical and clinical experience

• Ensure accuracy, data integrity, and validity of data and analysis in all work

Qualifications

• Healthcare provider (MD, DO, or NP with training in a broad clinical discipline) preferred; or M.S. or PhD in a relevant clinical field; or B.S. with at least ten years of experience

• Clinical informatics certification (AMIA or ABMS), completion of a clinical informatics fellowship, or at least two years direct clinical informatics experience

• At least two years of clinical practice experience, supporting a strong understanding of real world clinical workflows and how clinical care is represented in structured, unstructured, and multimodal data

• At least one year of experience querying EHR data (fluency in SQL required; experience or familiarity with tools such as dbt and Python strongly desirable). Experience with Epic and/or Cerner systems is a huge plus

• Strong expertise in clinical terminologies, ontologies, and data standards, including LOINC, SNOMED, CPT, HCPCS, RxNorm, NDC, and OMOP (or equivalent common data models)

• Strong technical writing and communication skills, with a collaborative mindset and willingness to support cross-functional teams

• Strategic and outcomes-oriented, able to balance depth and breadth to demonstrate value

• Excellent organizational skills, with the ability to embrace change and effectively manage multiple projects and consistently plan work to meet deadlines

• Experience working with startups is a plus

Nature of Our Work

Our work is fast-paced and iterative. We are growing, and we want to support our team members in growing their skills as well. We are building a team that approaches problems with a diversity of perspectives, values experimentation, and refines our approach based on that experimentation. We work with the full spectrum of healthcare data—from tabular data, videos, images, waveforms, and more. If a health system collects it, we might work with it!

If this looks like a partial fit, please reach out; we would love to share more about the work we do so you can determine if this is the right fit for you.

Other Details

• Occasional travel for in-person company working days (approximately quarterly)

Team Benefits

• Remote work and flexible hours. Availability needed for meetings, which we try to keep to a healthy minimum

• Complete wellness benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, PTO, sick days and more. Ask for details

• Professional development days to build your skills

• Collegial work environment

• Academic bent towards inquiry and problem solving but start-up speed and flexibility

• Great balance of focus time to work on projects but easy to access team members to discuss issues and work collaboratively

• Dandelion is a mission-driven company that is focused on improving patient care