Manager, Healthcare Quality Data Analytics

Manage all aspects of clinical quality data of focus and meet established deadlines, including data collection, data analysis and interpretation, data submission, daily quality reporting issues, and outcomes report review.

Responsibilities

• Utilize the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and other appropriate resources to obtain valid, reliable data for developing dashboards and scorecards.
• Perform data collection, data entry, abstraction, validation, and analysis.
• Prepare and submit timely quarterly data harvests to appropriate data warehouses.
• Interpret and translate data for senior management to clearly understand analysis and use it for meaningful decision making and strategic planning purposes.
• Assume facilitation role with clinical service line and quality teams to identify and verify patients for inclusion, identify and verify criteria and protocols for inclusion/exclusion, obtain clinical interpretation of data elements, and support clinical improvement initiatives.
• Manage the entire process of clinical care pathways, including research, scheduling and attending meetings with multidisciplinary teams, data collection, submission, validation, and audit.
• Collaborate closely with providers, clinicians, and other professionals to ensure compliance with documentation.
• Work with other team members of the Quality Data and Analytics Team and Clinical IT Teams to incorporate clinical data into the Electronic Health Record and develop/validate reports.
• Run queries/analyses from databases for hospital, service lines, and physician-level performance analytics.
• Use clinical databases and national benchmarking to continuously identify opportunities for improved outcomes and cost reductions, and relay findings and recommendations to appropriate decision makers.
• Facilitate the timely reporting of care transformation data and initiatives to all key stakeholders.
• Create customized and recurrent reports and dashboards.
• Assist with development and evaluation of internal and external data audits.
• Evaluate and analyze opportunities to merge data elements from various electronic medical record sources.
• Adhere to data definitions as they pertain to specified criteria and specifications.
• Assist quality team members in developing, reviewing, and interpreting data.
• Participate in annual meetings and conferences.
• Complete data abstraction training programs.
• Prepare reports for review with department leaders that analyze physician performance.
• Monitor quality performance, outcomes, and/or safety metrics to make recommendations for targeted process improvement projects.
• Prepare briefings and reports.
• Follow up and follow through on assigned action items for various projects, meetings, and committees.
• Solve data integrity issues as they arise, and monitor the addition of new data, analytics, and reporting systems.

Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Management, Nursing, Health Sciences, or related field.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience with databases, data manipulation, data validation, analysis, and creating dashboards to track performance.
• Healthcare background and quality improvement experience preferred.
• Required experience supporting clinical quality or process improvement initiatives in a hospital or clinical setting.
• Advanced proficiency with creating complex and advanced formulas in Excel and data manipulation.
• Knowledge of EPIC as well as their respective report writer tools.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Knowledge of healthcare quality and outcomes measurement and reporting.
• Knowledge of USNWR methodology and criteria a plus.
• Knowledge of Vizient Clinical Database tool a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated knowledge of medical terminology and understanding of cardiovascular-related diseases.
• Experience with clinical database systems and decision support tools, including an understanding of medical terminology and clinical coding protocols.

Skills

• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships.
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form.
• Skill in collecting, organizing, and analyzing data.
• Proficiency in computer software (i.e., Microsoft Office).
• Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental.
• Tuition remission.

Job Status: Full time
Employee Type: Staff