Medical Officer & Clinical Informatics Technologist

Summary:

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 patient-led data sharing, remote patient monitoring, health data standards, interoperability, artificial intelligence, and clinical quality analysis.  The position supports engagements with clinicians, professional medical societies, informaticists, technologists, and additional stakeholders across government and the healthcare ecosystem.

Essential Job Functions:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Evaluate and recommend data, technology, and interoperability solutions including standards-based exchange, analytics approaches, and tools supporting clinical quality and model performance.
• Review and contribute to policy development by providing substantive expert comments on internal CMMI model documentation, policy drafts, and operational design materials.
• Apply advanced analytical reasoning to complex, often ambiguous healthcare problems, identifying alternatives and developing long term, strategic solutions aligned with CMMI goals.
• Engage and collaborate with medical societies, clinicians, technologists, and informaticists to ensure credibility, clinical relevance, and cross sector alignment of CMMI work products.

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

• Deep expertise in clinical informatics, health data standards, interoperability, and quality assurance
• Experience working with AI tools, remote patient monitoring data, and patient-generated health data
• Ability to assess complex, vaguely defined problems and develop strategic solutions
• Familiarity with CMS/CMMI health system transformation goals
• Strong communication skills for cross-disciplinary collaboration
• Ability to provide high level clinical interpretation of data, models, and policy proposals

Minimum Qualifications:

• Doctor of Medicine (M.D.), with a specialty in Internal Medicine
• 10+ years of relevant professional experience in clinical practice and medical/clinical informatics

Licensure/Certification

• Active, unrestricted medical license
• American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) Certification in Clinical Informatics

Pay and Benefits

The range for this position is $70 to $80 hourly.