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Helium Health

Clinical/Health Informatics Consultant

NigeriaRemoteContract

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About this role

Read the responsibilities and requirements before you apply.

We are Helium Health!

A full-service Healthtech company on a journey to digitize healthcare across Africa. We have been doing this since 2016, and our pioneering approach has helped to transform healthcare delivery systems across Sub-Saharan Africa and the GCC, creating an alternative vision for patients and providers, whilst facilitating hundreds of thousands of high-quality patient experiences every month.

We are very good at creating for the market we live in, because we fully understand from our own experiences. Our innovative and reliable products are engineered for the nuances of the African landscape, empowering frontline providers to deliver excellent healthcare to patients. Our products span Provider Digitization, Financial Solutions, and Public Health & Data Partnerships, including HeliumOS, HeliumDoc, HeliumCredit, HeliumWallet, and HeliumCare.

We are looking for a Clinical/Health Informatics Consultant to support a review of clinical data capture and workflows within HeliumOS.

The consultant will work with relevant teams to review existing clinical forms and data-entry processes and provide recommendations to support the continued optimisation of the platform.

Responsibilities

  • Review clinical forms, data fields, and data-entry workflows within the EMR.
  • Assess data capture across key areas of the patient journey.
  • Recommend opportunities to optimise the structure and standardisation of clinical data capture.
  • Review the use of structured fields and free-text documentation and recommend appropriate approaches.
  • Recommend relevant clinical terminology, classifications, and coding standards where applicable.
  • Ensure recommendations reflect practical clinical workflows and do not create unnecessary documentation burden for healthcare providers.
  • Work with relevant clinical, Product, Data, Public Health, and Engineering teams to validate and prioritise recommendations.

Requirements

  • Medical degree (MBBS/MD or equivalent) or other relevant clinical qualification.
  • Minimum of 3 years' relevant experience working with EMR/EHR systems, clinical informatics, clinical data management, or the design and optimisation of clinical data capture and documentation workflows. 
  • Good understanding of clinical documentation and healthcare workflows.
  • Experience reviewing or designing clinical forms, EMR data fields, or structured health datasets.
  • Understanding of health data quality and standardisation.
  • Familiarity with relevant clinical terminology and coding standards such as ICD-10, SNOMED CT, LOINC, HL7/FHIR, or similar standards.
  • Strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills.
  • Ability to work effectively with clinical and technical teams.
  • Experience working with EMRs/EHRs in Nigeria or other African healthcare settings.
  • Experience working with multi-facility health information systems.

Benefits

This role is on a short term contract basis and offers a competitive pay.

Helium Health is an equal opportunity employer, thus it is not biased in its employment to any race, colour, creed, religion, sex or physical disability.