Clinical Data Managers
- Bright Outlook
- Rapid Growth
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
What you’d do
- Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
- Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
- Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
- Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
- Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
- Prepare appropriate formatting to data sets as requested.
- Design forms for receiving, processing, or tracking data.
- Prepare data analysis listings and activity, performance, or progress reports.
Skills that matter
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Reading Comprehension
- Speaking
- Writing
- Active Learning
How to get there
Considerable preparation: most need a four-year bachelor's degree
Also called
- Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director)
- Clinical Data Management Manager (CDM Manager)
- Clinical Data Manager
- Data Management Manager
- Clinical Informatics Manager
- Data Deliverables Manager
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