Occupations/15-2051.02

Clinical Data Managers

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

Bachelor’s

Usually a four-year bachelor’s degree.

AI automation risk

79%

Higher automation risk

Human characteristics

38%

Balanced human and task mix

Task orientation

72%

Higher automation risk

A day in this job

  • Mostly routine

    Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.

  • Mostly routine

    Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.

  • Mostly routine

    Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.

The tasks we can read here lean routine. That sits next to the AI risk rank — it is not a forecast that the job disappears.

Core tasks

  1. 01Design and validate clinical databases, including designing or testing logic checks.
  2. 02Process clinical data, including receipt, entry, verification, or filing of information.
  3. 03Generate data queries, based on validation checks or errors and omissions identified during data entry, to resolve identified problems.
  4. 04Develop project-specific data management plans that address areas such as coding, reporting, or transfer of data, database locks, and work flow processes.
  5. 05Monitor work productivity or quality to ensure compliance with standard operating procedures.
  6. 06Prepare appropriate formatting to data sets as requested.

Model drivers (O*NET 1–5)

  • Repeating same tasks3.80
  • Degree of automation2.50
  • Time sitting4.85
  • Originality (ability)3.00
  • Conflict situations2.80
  • Hands-on objects/tools2.37
  • Outdoors / weather1.05
  • Disease exposure1.25
  • Decision freedom3.70

Top abilities

  • Information Ordering4.12
  • Deductive Reasoning4.12
  • Written Comprehension4.00
  • Oral Expression4.00
  • Oral Comprehension4.00
  • Written Expression3.88
  • Problem Sensitivity3.88
  • Near Vision3.88

Essential skills

  • Reading Comprehension3.88
  • Active Listening3.88
  • Writing3.75
  • Speaking3.88
  • Mathematics3.50
  • Science2.38
  • Critical Thinking4.00
  • Active Learning3.62
  • Learning Strategies2.88
  • Monitoring3.62

CIP matches

11.0102Artificial Intelligence11.0103Information Technology11.0701Computer Science11.0802Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration11.0804Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation26.1103Bioinformatics26.1104Computational Biology26.1199Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Other27.0101Mathematics, General27.0301Applied Mathematics, General27.0303Computational Mathematics27.0304Computational and Applied Mathematics27.0305Financial Mathematics27.0306Mathematical Biology27.0399Applied Mathematics, Other27.0501Statistics, General27.0502Mathematical Statistics and Probability27.0503Mathematics and Statistics27.0601Applied Statistics, General27.9999Mathematics and Statistics, Other30.0801Mathematics and Computer Science30.3001Computational Science30.3901Economics and Computer Science30.4801Linguistics and Computer Science30.7001Data Science, General30.7099Data Science, Other30.7101Data Analytics, General30.7102Business Analytics30.7103Data Visualization30.7104Financial Analytics30.7199Data Analytics, Other40.0512Cheminformatics/Chemistry Informatics45.0603Econometrics and Quantitative Economics52.1301Management Science52.1302Business Statistics

Schools offering related programs

12 of 93 shown

Earnings are College Scorecard medians for that program, 1 and 2 years after completion. A dash means the Department suppressed the cell or the campus is not in the field file.

InstitutionProgramTuitionAdmitGrad 6-yrEarnings

Stanford University

Stanford, CA · Private nonprofit

Computer Science

11.0701

$62,4004%96%

1 yr $147,858

2 yr $136,499

Bachelor's · CIP 11.07

University of California-San Diego

La Jolla, CA · Public

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$15,20024%87%

1 yr $109,429

2 yr $110,878

Bachelor's · CIP 11.01

University of California-Berkeley

Berkeley, CA · Public

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$14,80011%93%

1 yr $109,392

2 yr $120,462

Bachelor's · CIP 11.01

Columbia University in the City of New York

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$68,2004%96%

1 yr $103,078

2 yr $100,127

Master's · CIP 11.01

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor, MI · Public

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$17,70018%93%

1 yr $101,903

2 yr $94,281

Bachelor's · CIP 11.01

Georgetown University

Washington, DC · Private nonprofit

Computer Science

11.0701

$65,40012%95%

1 yr $93,342

2 yr $88,639

Bachelor's · CIP 11.07

Northeastern University

Boston, MA · Private nonprofit

Computer Science

11.0701

$63,2007%91%

1 yr $91,744

2 yr $84,100

Bachelor's · CIP 11.07

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

Atlanta, GA · Public

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$11,80017%91%

1 yr $88,731

2 yr $91,152

Bachelor's · CIP 11.01

The University of Texas at Austin

Austin, TX · Public

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$11,70031%88%

1 yr $87,663

2 yr $79,558

Bachelor's · CIP 11.01

The University of Texas at Dallas

Richardson, TX · Public

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$14,60065%73%

1 yr $86,867

2 yr —

Master's · CIP 11.01

University of St Thomas

St. Paul, MN · Private nonprofit

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$50,20077%82%

1 yr $84,021

2 yr $88,527

Master's · CIP 11.01

New York University

New York, NY · Private nonprofit

Artificial Intelligence

11.0102

$60,40012%88%

1 yr $81,158

2 yr $79,957

Bachelor's · CIP 11.01