RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conduct an assessment of existing HHS-supported Common Data Elements (CDEs) and patient assessment instruments and definitions relevant to CER, in conjunction with relevant NIH-wide committees and other stakeholders, as a basis for priority setting, selection, and identification of gaps. Work with the technology team to create a web portal listing of these CDEs.
• Engage relevant NIH working groups to draft proposed guidance about the use of standard CDEs and patient assessment instruments in Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) for use in relevant funding announcements.
• Develop a detailed technical design for robust storage of and access to CDEs and patient assessment instruments that:
  
  • supports seamless integration with and use of the NLM Vocabulary Value Set repository
  • is consistent with the analogous infrastructure being designed and developed for clinical quality measures reflects input from ONC, participants in the S & I Framework, the Health IT Standards Committee, and other relevant stakeholders.

REQUIREMENTS

• Extensive knowledge and experience in biomedical informatics
• Very good communications and interpersonal skills. Ability to communicate well with domain stakeholders (such as Medical doctors, terminology expertise, clinical researchers, etc.), as well as technical developers.
• Knowledge or experience of research methods, measurement, and biostatistics
• Good team player

PREFERENCES

• Medical terminology
• Common Data Elements (different domains -often used in clinical studies), CRF modules (logically organize CDEs for data collection)
• Clinical research and practice Instruments such as a survey, questionnaire, test, scale, rating, or tool designed to measure the variable(s), characteristic(s), or information of interest, a behavioral or psychological characteristic, etc. For example The Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) instruments
• Three plus years of working experiences in NCI research projects

HOW TO APPLY

POLICY