About the Company

At Covera Health, we have proven that advanced data science can prevent serious misdiagnoses which result in poor outcomes for patients and increased costs for payers. Using our proprietary framework, we help patients recover better, faster, and more affordably. Today, we are working with some of the largest healthcare payers in the country to potentially impact millions of patient lives. We are passionate about improving healthcare for every patient.

About the Role

We are looking for a talented individual to help us oversee the effort to structure our very diverse radiology dataset, across multiple modalities and subspecialties.

You will work with a growing multidisciplinary team of talented data scientists, other statisticians, engineers, and researchers to leverage unique healthcare data (in the form of MRI images, clinical reports, claims data, and beyond) to create new and improved methods for assessing and predicting the quality of care delivered by healthcare providers and determining the impact that care quality has on overall patient outcomes and cost. You will have the opportunity to work with extremely diverse and entirely unique medical image and healthcare datasets that extend to all phases of care delivery (referral, diagnosis, therapy, and outcome/follow-up) from the perspective of all key stakeholders (patients, providers, payers).

Your responsibilities will include helping to shape the company’s AI strategy in the area of medical image analysis, as well as to further create, extend, and validate the image analysis related deep learning models in use at Covera Health. You will also help to coordinate research activities with our clinical and academic collaborators and play a key role in sharing the results we achieve with the broader scientific community.

In collaboration with the Artificial Intelligence team, the Lead for Advanced Structured Reading will be responsible for multiple activities. First and foremost, (s)he will be responsible for overseeing work from all annotators, refining annotation processes, and defining new annotation tasks. The annotation tasks are organized around 2 main activities — annotations of radiology reports and annotations of medical images.

For the tasks that relate to annotations of reports and images, the Lead for Advanced Structured Reading will:
• Help define and document annotation tasks and related processes / guidelines
• Define logic of annotation with the AI team
• Study task related anatomy and terminology, becoming the team's internal subject matter expert
• Generate material for annotation guidance
• Coordinate the internal de-identification processes of reports and images
• Review the work from the annotation team
• Generate and collect ground truth for all NLP and medical imaging tasks

Beyond the annotation tasks, the Lead for Advanced Structured Reading will:
• Be responsible for recruiting and managing the annotation teams
• Work with the Chief Medical Officer and the AI team to coordinate clinical and analytic priorities
• Develop areas of clinical research adjacent to Covera's core competencies, including the quality of radiology care, image quality, and report quality, among others.

Requirements

• BA or BS required
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong written and oral communication with excellent ability to work in a team environment
• Prior experience with radiology, radiology reports, and radiology nomenclature / naming conventions associated with radiology, is heavily preferred
• Ability to read and comprehend medical documents quickly and accurately, identifying the meaning of specific text and phrases
• Ability to effectively communicate detailed information to healthcare providers
• Strong personal time management skills including the ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines
• Passionate about technology, data science, and healthcare
• Strong communicator with excellent interpersonal skills and can-do attitude to work and thrive in a fast-paced team environment

Ideally the Lead for Advanced Structured Reading will have:

• An MD or DO degree
• At least a basic understanding of Python
• At least a basic understanding of machine learning
• Experience with basic interpretation of medical imaging

Benefits

You will be a full-time employee with competitive salary, stock options, and great benefits. These benefits include medical, dental, and vision insurance (with premiums fully covered), FSA, pre-tax commuter benefits, flexible paid time off, and a comfortable office space filled with a variety of quality snacks and beverages. Most importantly, you’ll get to know each of us and we love to work together to find solutions. We are a smart, fun, focused, and unique team of people who are truly passionate about changing healthcare for the better!