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Freelance Clinical Informatics Editor - BMJ Digital Health

BMJ Digital Health is looking for a highly motivated Freelance Clinical Informatics Editor to work in our health informatics team. The successful candidate will be responsible for producing high-quality computable guideline recommendations across the entire patient and population health journey, ensuring the editorial integrity of clinical decision support content translated into computable evidence. 

This is a remote position, and we require availability for freelance work for a minimum of three, and preferably five, days per week. Please clearly state your weekly availability in your application.

Responsibilities:

The Freelance Clinical Informatics Editor will be instrumental in several key areas, ensuring the accuracy, consistency, and clinical validity of our computable guideline recommendations:

• Conduct editorial reviews of computable guideline recommendations to confirm accurate clinical scope and faithful capture of the recommendation's clinical intent.

• Assess the consistency of similar clinical recommendations according to defined editorial guidelines.

• Collaborate with data analysts to implement necessary analyses and subsequent automated checks.

• Liaise with section editors to resolve any queries regarding content statement interpretation.

Qualifications:

• Essential: A medical or pharmacy degree complemented by relevant clinical practice experience.

Experience:

• Essential:

  • Demonstrated experience or a clear, demonstrable interest in health informatics and the machine interpretability of clinical content. This includes understanding how clinical information can be structured and represented for automated processing and decision support.

  • Experience in devising, creating, and updating clinical decision support information for a reputable scientific publisher.

  • Experience with a diverse range of clinical decision support content sources to inform the clinical scope of recommendations within a CDS tool and other linked resources.

• Desirable: Experience working with content databases and clinical terminologies.

Skills:

• A strong understanding of how clinical terminologies support the interoperability of healthcare and patient data.

• The ability to understand the scope, design, and clinical application of clinical decision support content to ensure the editorial quality assurance of its machine interpretation.

• A keen ability to prioritise clinical statements within clinical decision support content to define the scope of machine-interpretable content.

• An understanding of the evidence flow used to justify clinical statements in clinical decision support content, enabling a deeper comprehension of their background and interpretation.

• Strong editorial instincts, meticulous attention to detail, and the ability to work effectively under pressure to meet tight deadlines.