TaraJee Clarke — Health IT Analyst | Clinical Systems & Digital Health

About

Healthcare Experience Meets
Technology

I work at the intersection of healthcare, clinical systems, technology, and data—translating real-world clinical and operational needs into solutions people can actually use.

With 10+ years across payers, hospitals, health tech, clinical operations, and analytics, I understand both the healthcare problem and the technology behind the solution.

My experience spans clinical workflow analysis, EHR systems, requirements gathering, UAT, digital health implementation, healthcare analytics, AI/LLM evaluation, and technology-enabled process improvement.

I have worked with Epic, Meditech, Salesforce, SQL, Python, Snowflake, and healthcare AI/ML technologies, collaborating with clinicians, operations, Data Science, IT, and cross-functional teams.

My focus is Health IT, Clinical Systems, Digital Health, technology implementation, and product/project delivery.

Portfolio

Health IT Solutions Portfolio

Applied projects demonstrating how I use healthcare domain knowledge, clinical data, analytics, AI, and technology to solve real-world healthcare problems.

01 · Featured

Complete

Pharmacovigilance Data Engineering Pipeline

Built a production-style data engineering pipeline ingesting adverse drug event reports from the openFDA API into an ICH E2B(R3)-aligned MySQL schema. Designed a normalized relational data model capturing drug, reaction, patient, and report entities. Surfaced drug safety signals through a Flask/Plotly interactive dashboard enabling exploration by drug class, reaction type, and report volume over time.

PythonMySQLFlaskPlotlyopenFDA APIICH E2B(R3)

Type

Data Engineering

Standard

ICH E2B(R3) regulatory schema

Output

Interactive signal detection dashboard

Key Skills

REST API ingestion · Schema design · Regulatory standards · Dashboard development

Complete

Drug Interaction ML Classification Pipeline

Developed a machine learning pipeline to classify clinically significant drug-drug interactions using the TwoSIDES pharmacovigilance dataset. Engineered features from adverse event co-occurrence patterns and trained logistic regression and random forest classifiers. Evaluated with AUC-ROC, precision-recall curves, and cross-validation with a focus on minimizing false negatives given clinical risk implications.

100K+

Records Processed

ROC-AUC ~0.69

Model Performance

2 Models

LR + Random Forest

Pythonscikit-learnpandasTwoSIDESLogistic RegressionRandom Forest

Complete

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction

Built a cardiovascular disease risk prediction model using logistic regression across three public clinical datasets. Performed data harmonization, missing value imputation, and feature selection to produce a unified modeling dataset. Evaluated model calibration and discrimination across demographic subgroups to assess equity implications of risk score deployment in clinical settings.

3 Datasets

Framingham · UCI · Cardio Train

Cross-validated

Generalizability Test

Equity Analysis

Subgroup Fairness

Pythonscikit-learnpandasLogistic RegressionModel Calibration

In Progress

Medicare Claims Data Warehouse & Analytics Pipeline

Built a two-layer PostgreSQL data warehouse on real CMS Medicare claims data, a raw layer where data lands as-is and a clean layer where it's transformed and structured. Wrote a Python pipeline that downloads, cleans, and loads data automatically. Produced ten progressively complex SQL queries covering window functions, CTEs, and PMPM calculations. Final deliverable is a live Looker Studio dashboard with four panels: executive scorecard, PMPM trend, claims by service line, and top high-cost members with date and service line filters.

2-Layer

Raw + Clean Warehouse

PMPM + CTEs

Advanced SQL

Looker Studio

Live Dashboard

PythonpandasPostgreSQLAdvanced SQLLooker StudioCMS Medicare

In Progress

Automated Healthcare ETL Pipeline with Orchestration & Monitoring

A fully automated three-stage Prefect pipeline that runs on a schedule — Extract pulls fresh CMS data, Transform applies data quality checks and logs bad records to an error table, Load pushes clean data incrementally into PostgreSQL so only new records are added each run. Includes retry logic for stage failures. A Plotly Dash monitoring dashboard surfaces pipeline run history, records processed per run, error rate over time, and a data quality summary panel.

3-Stage

Extract · Transform · Load

Prefect

Scheduled Orchestration

Dash Monitor

Live Pipeline Health

PythonpandasPrefectPostgreSQLPlotly DashIncremental Load

In Progress

End-to-End Healthcare Data Integration Platform on Snowflake

Cloud-native data integration platform on Snowflake with three schemas — raw, staging, and analytics. A Python ingestion script loads CMS data into the raw schema via the Snowflake connector. SQL transformation scripts promote data through staging to analytics, cleaning, joining, and computing metrics at each layer. Snowflake Tasks automate transformations on a schedule. Three live Tableau Public dashboards serve as the front end: an executive scorecard, a clinical operations dashboard, and a payer analytics dashboard.

3-Schema

Raw · Staging · Analytics

Snowflake Tasks

Automated Transforms

3 Dashboards

Executive · Clinical · Payer

SnowflakePythonAdvanced SQLTableau PublicSnowflake TasksCMS Medicare

Case Studies

Health IT Case Studies

Structured analysis of clinical, operational, technology, interoperability, ethics, and digital-health challenges.

Health Informatics & Strategy

Telemedicine as a Health Technology Solution in Jamaica

Examines whether telemedicine can address access, cost, and continuity-of-care challenges in Jamaica particularly for rural and underserved communities while remaining aligned with health informatics principles.

Telemedicine reduces geographic and transportation barriers, with highest impact in rural communities lacking specialist access

Continuity of care for chronic disease (diabetes, CVD) improves with remote monitoring and regular follow-up support

Effective adoption requires interoperable EHRs, digital infrastructure investment, and regulatory framework development

Telemedicine is a policy and change-management challenge as much as a technology one

TelemedicineHealth EquityInteroperabilityEHRCaribbean Health Systems

Health Informatics, Security & Privacy

Strengthening Cybersecurity in Healthcare Facilities

Investigates how healthcare organizations can improve their cybersecurity posture to reduce the risk and impact of cyberattacks while protecting sensitive patient data and maintaining clinical operations.

Phishing, ransomware, and insider threats are the dominant attack vectors often exploiting human behavior over technical gaps

EHR outages from cyberattacks directly delay patient care, making cybersecurity a patient-safety issue, not just an IT concern

NIST Cybersecurity Framework applied to structure recommendations across prevention, detection, response, and recovery

Multi-layered strategy combining access controls, staff training, and incident response planning reduces operational impact

CybersecurityNIST FrameworkPHI ProtectionRansomwareHealthcare IT

Health Informatics, Ethics & Clinical Systems

Profit vs. Care: Ethical Risks in Clinical Decision Support Systems

Examines whether CDSS tools consistently prioritize patient care over financial interests as they become increasingly commercialized with analysis of IBM Watson for Oncology and Epic's sepsis model as real-world failures.

Vendor financial relationships with pharma can shape CDSS algorithms toward high-cost treatments, often without clinician visibility

IBM Watson for Oncology recommended unsafe treatments due to narrow training data and lack of independent validation

Epic's sepsis model raised concerns about high false-alert rates and limited transparency into recommendation logic

Algorithmic transparency, independent audits, and cost-aware recommendations are essential for ethical CDSS design

CDSSResponsible AIAlgorithm TransparencyHealth EthicsClinical Governance

Core Capabilities

Health IT Skills & Technology

Healthcare domain expertise supported by hands-on clinical systems, implementation, analytics, data, and AI capabilities.

Clinical Systems

Epic
Meditech PDOC
Meditech Order Management
Salesforce
EHR Workflows
Clinical Informatics

Business & Product Analysis

Requirements Gathering
Functional Specifications
Business Analysis
Stakeholder Discovery
Product Requirements
Gap Analysis

Implementation & Project

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Workflow Validation
User Adoption
Go-Live Support
Process Improvement
Agile / Project Delivery

Healthcare Data & Analytics

SQL
Python · pandas · NumPy
Snowflake · PostgreSQL
dbt · Prefect
Tableau · Looker Studio · Plotly
REST APIs · Data Quality

AI & Emerging Technology

LLM Evaluation & AI QA
AI Governance
Model Validation
AI/ML · scikit-learn
NLP / Clinical Text
Prompt Engineering

Healthcare Domain

Clinical Workflow Analysis
Digital Health
Payer & Claims Operations
CMS Medicare / Medicaid Data
ICD-10 · CPT · HEDIS
HL7 / FHIR Concepts

Experience

Career Timeline

10+ years across healthcare operations, payers, clinical environments, and health technology—evolving into Health IT, clinical systems, digital health, and technology solutions.

Jan 2026 – May 2026

Health Informatics Intern — LLM Quality Assurance

Large Health System · Remote · New York

Evaluated healthcare LLM outputs, identified misclassification patterns, and supported model validation and AI governance. Collaborated across Data Science, IT, and clinical teams to translate healthcare needs into technical requirements.

Sep 2025 – May 2026

Vice President

Graduate Healthcare Technology Organization · New York

Led initiatives connecting graduate students with Health IT, digital health, healthcare analytics, and AI through strategic programming, industry engagement, and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Sep 2025 – Dec 2025

Health Informatics Intern

Hospital & Health System · On-site · New York

Partnered with clinicians to translate workflow needs into requirements and functional specifications. Supported UAT and workflow optimization across Meditech PDOC and Order Management.

Aug 2024 – Sep 2025

Professional Development — Health Informatics

Graduate Study & Applied Portfolio

Pursued an M.S. in Health Informatics while building healthcare analytics, AI/ML, and data solutions using Python, SQL, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, scikit-learn, dbt, Prefect, REST APIs, and HL7/FHIR concepts.

Oct 2023 – May 2024

Data Operations Associate — Payment Investigation

Behavioral Health Technology Company · Remote · New York

Investigated complex healthcare payment issues through data analysis and root-cause investigation, identifying workflow inefficiencies and process improvement opportunities across operations.

May 2023 – Oct 2023

Patient Intake Specialist

Digital Health Company · Remote · New York

Supported patient and clinical workflows in an AI-enabled digital health environment using Epic and Salesforce, including go-live support, user adoption, and health-system implementation activities.

Sep 2021 – May 2023

Practice Operations Coordinator

Medical Practice · On-site · Florida

Coordinated clinical and administrative workflows across patient care, scheduling, documentation, and practice operations while supporting process improvement and patient experience.

Sep 2016 – Jul 2021

Data Operations Analyst — Claims & Risk Management

Insurance & Claims Organization · Hybrid

Analyzed claims and operational data, conducted requirements gathering and gap analysis, and collaborated across business functions to support process and technology improvements, contributing to approximately 15% greater operational efficiency.

Aug 2013 – Sep 2016

Claims Data Associate

Insurance & Claims Organization

Managed and validated claims data, investigated documentation discrepancies, and supported accurate processing, reporting, data quality, and regulated claims operations.

Health ITAnalyst

Healthcare Experience MeetsTechnology

Health IT Solutions Portfolio

Pharmacovigilance Data Engineering Pipeline

Drug Interaction ML Classification Pipeline

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Prediction

Medicare Claims Data Warehouse & Analytics Pipeline

Automated Healthcare ETL Pipeline with Orchestration & Monitoring

End-to-End Healthcare Data Integration Platform on Snowflake

Health IT Case Studies

Telemedicine as a Health Technology Solution in Jamaica

Strengthening Cybersecurity in Healthcare Facilities

Profit vs. Care: Ethical Risks in Clinical Decision Support Systems

Health IT Skills & Technology

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