Sr. Healthcare Data Analyst - Epic

Duties/Responsibilities

• Query healthcare data from multiple sources including electronic medical records, patient experience surveys, claims, and administrative systems to discover meaningful analytical insights for clinical, business, and strategic initiatives.
• Analyze business requirements and source systems to translate these inputs into technical data specifications and workflows for the design and development of analytical solutions.
• Design, develop, validate, and monitor reports and dashboards to track key healthcare clinical quality, operational, and financial data.
• Design, develop, and automate clinical quality and operational performance metrics.
• Maintain knowledge base of data requirements and measure definitions.
• Conduct analysis, including benchmarking and performance forecasts, to enable data informed decision making.
• Perform advanced analytics such as statistical analysis and predictive model development to support clinical and business strategy.
• Adhere to data management and analytics best practices to ensure timely and accurate delivery of high-quality analytics products.
• Establish and maintain data dictionaries, metadata, data definitions, release notes, and other documentation that supports organizational data governance and change management.
• Work closely and collaboratively with multidisciplinary project teams to provide comprehensive analytical support on organizational initiatives.
• Interpret, explain, and discuss data analysis results with project team.
• Make data informed recommendations and support strategies for improving healthcare delivery and outcomes.
• Apply a thorough and methodical approach to analysis and presentation of data results including use of data visualizations.
• Structure analytical results in an organized, visual manner to tell a meaningful and actionable story.
• Use effective written and verbal communication skills to present analysis and results to diverse stakeholders.
• Assess analytics project requirements by performing workflow assessments, capturing business needs, and documenting assumptions, risk, issues, definitions to develop a thorough project plan with realistic goals and timelines.
• Evaluate data needs of assigned projects, assure data integrity and suitability, and determine data collection methods, metrics definitions and evaluation methods.
• Prepares and deliver business communications, including meeting agendas, presentations, business reports and project communications plans to effectively meet stakeholder needs and expectations.
• Coaches and develops other team members, acting as a resource of knowledge and guidance.
• May supervise and ensure the quality of work performed by others.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree, preferably in healthcare analytics, computer science, data science, information technology, computer engineering, or other computational quantitative field required.
• Master’s Degree or higher in a healthcare analytics, computer science, data science, or quantitative based discipline such as economics, epidemiology, statistics, public health, or health services research preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant healthcare industry experience working in analytics, reporting, business intelligence, or data management role required.
• 5+ years of experience in data management, data visualization, and analytics using tools such as MS SQL, SSRS, Power BI, Tableau, SAS, or R required.
• Working knowledge of relational database and data warehouse concepts required.
• Epic or Workday knowledge required.
• Working knowledge of MS Office Applications required.
• Technical project management experience preferred.