Senior Clinical Terminology / Digital Health Standards Consultant

Job summary

Lead the implementation and mapping of clinical terminology standards to ensure healthcare interoperability. Develop terminology artifacts and support the lifecycle management of assets within digital clinical workflows.

Job details

Senior Clinical Terminology / Digital Health Standards Consultant 10+ years of hands-on experience in clinical terminology mapping, implementation, and terminology standards within healthcare environments. Strong expertise in SNOMED CT / SNOMED CT-CA and LOINC / pCLOCD, including terminology mapping, value sets, and terminology artifact development. Extensive hands-on knowledge of HL7 FHIR and HL7 v2 and their application in healthcare interoperability. Strong understanding of Canadian and pan-Canadian digital health standards, frameworks, tooling, and interoperability initiatives. Proven experience implementing clinical terminology solutions and supporting terminology asset lifecycle management. Experience with EHR/EMR systems, clinical information systems, clinical data repositories, interoperability services, and healthcare integration initiatives. Experience developing and implementing terminology standards within electronic forms (eForms), referrals, and other digital clinical workflows. Strong understanding of clinical data harmonization, standards assessment, interoperability, and standards-based clinical information exchange. Experience assessing existing clinical systems for readiness to collect, submit, and exchange standards-based clinical data and identifying appropriate clinical workflows. Canadian healthcare experience in acute care, primary care, and/or community care settings; public-sector experience is mandatory. Strong requirements gathering, research, analysis, documentation, specification development, testing support, and stakeholder/partner engagement skills. Experience with terminology asset-management tools such as Apelon DTS, TermWorks, Ontoserver, or Shrimp is an asset; excellent communication, collaboration, and knowledge-transfer skills are required. Location: Ontario — Remote currently, with potential onsite work at the hiring manager's discretion. Engagement: October 2026 – March 2027 | Senior-level consulting engagement.

What you’ll do

Lead the implementation and mapping of clinical terminology standards to ensure healthcare interoperability. Develop terminology artifacts and support the lifecycle management of assets within digital clinical workflows.

Requirements

Requires over 10 years of experience in clinical terminology and digital health standards, specifically with SNOMED CT and HL7 FHIR. Mandatory experience in the Canadian public sector healthcare environment is required.

Listed skills

• Technical Documentation · Preferred
• Requirements gathering · Preferred

Other relevant skills

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• Clinical Terminology Mapping
• SNOMED CT
• LOINC
• HL7 FHIR
• HL7 v2
• Interoperability
• Clinical Data Harmonization
• EHR/EMR Systems
• Terminology Asset Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Digital Health Standards
• Clinical Workflow Analysis
• pCLOCD
• Data Repository Management
• Technical Documentation

Job areas

• Healthcare
• Consulting
• Technology
• Data & Analytics
• Government & Public Sector