Clinical Data Managers

Overview

Clinical Data Managers has a national median salary of $120,230 per year, with +34.6% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.

Work Values

• Achievement
• Support
• Independence

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• 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.

Work Activities

• Working with Computers
• Processing Information
• Getting Information
• Documenting/Recording Information
• Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
• Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
• Making Decisions and Solving Problems
• Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Analyzing Data or Information

Detailed Work Activities

• Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information.
• Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data.
• Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources.
• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person.
• Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards.
• Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems.
• Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Identifying the underlying principles, reasons, or facts of information by breaking down information or data into separate parts.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a bachelor's degree as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished a master's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Master's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a bachelor's degree.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Clinical Data Managers:

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