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Occupational Profile & What They Do
Apply knowledge of health care and database management to analyze clinical data, and to identify and report trends.
Alternative Tech Titles
Clinical Data Management Director (CDM Director)
Clinical Data Management Manager (CDM Manager)
Clinical Data Manager
Clinical Informatics Manager
Data Deliverables Manager
Data Management Manager
Daily Duties & Technical Responsibilities
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.
Core Technology, Languages & Tools
Data base user interface and query software
Microsoft Access
Structured query language SQL
Presentation software
Microsoft PowerPoint
Analytical or scientific software
IBM SPSS Statistics
SAS
Skills, Knowledge & Engineering Competencies
Basic Skills
thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem
listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions
Problem Solving
noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it
People and Technology Systems
figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it
thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one
Arts and Humanities
English language
Engineering and Technology
computers and electronics
Business
customer service
Math and Science
arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, or statistics
Verbal
communicate by speaking
listen and understand what people say
Ideas and Logic
order or arrange things
use rules to solve problems
Math
choose the right type of math to solve a problem
add, subtract, multiply, or divide
