Health Data Governance - Summer Internship at Blue Shield of California

About Our Internships

Our paid internship program is thoughtfully curated to provide students with experience and exposure to the healthcare industry. Interns will be given the opportunity to get hands-on experience with real work projects, build meaningful relationships and connections within the organization, and experience our mission and enterprise goals through our program curriculum centered on our leadership model (Personal, People, Thought, and Results Leadership). To see more about our internship program, check out this video.   

Our Summer 2025 Internship is June 9th or June 16th through August 15th, 2025. 

Application Process and Timeline:

• Now: Actively accepting applications
• November: If you meet the requirements, you will receive an invitation to complete a Pre-Recorded Video Interview
• November - January: 2nd round interviews & offers extended

As an intern at Blue Shield of California, you will:

• Participate in impactful projects during a 10-week internship program
• Undertake a 10-week curriculum designed to familiarize interns with BSC, leadership development, exposure to the healthcare industry, and more
• Be invited to participate in BSC employee events and networking opportunities such as Employee Resource Groups, employee volunteer activities, and more

General Requirements:

• Must reside in the state of California for the duration of the internship
• Hybrid requirements - Preferably live within a 50-mile radius of a BSC office and be available for in-office collaboration 2 times per month
• Must currently be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate program at the time of the internship, with a graduation date of December 2025 or later

Your Role

The Data Governance team drives building trust in data via alignment and transparency across the organization to achieve the company’s goal of transforming healthcare. In this role you will be part of a high-performing team which works across the enterprise by SME based stewardship and transparency on definitions of business concepts in data, technical metadata management, data quality, reference data management, master data management, security and compliance.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

• Mapping BSC business taxonomy to Healthcare Industry standard taxonomy: 
  • Associate BSC business taxonomy to HL7 taxonomy to enable interoperability
  • Suggest refinement of the business taxonomy of BSC in data catalog for industry standardization 
• Compliance: 
  • Associate applicable regulatory policies to business taxonomy

Your Knowledge and Experience

• Actively pursuing a master’s degree in Health Informatics & Public Health
• Interest in and understanding of Industry standards for healthcare data and applicable regulatory policies
• Minimum 1 year of related professional experience, project, or coursework
• Proactive, solution focused mindset with demonstrated creative, problem-solving skills
• Passionate about changing healthcare and challenging the status quo via Healthcare Information management

Pay Range:

The pay range for this role is: $25.00 to $30.00 for California.

Note:

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.