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Healthcare Data Analyst - Access Center

Galveston, Texas, United States

New

Clerical & Administrative Support

UTMB Health

Requisition # 2502679

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in informatics, information technology, business, data science, or a related field and three (3) years of directly related work experience.

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in business administration or related field and experience in analysis, quality reporting, or decision support in the healthcare industry.

Job Summary:

Responsible for developing, preparing, interpreting, and monitoring moderate–to–complex health process and outcomes data analyses, projections, data modeling, and reports used by system management in decision-making. Develops, implements, and monitors reporting and analysis solutions from multiple databases to ensure efficient processing, up-to-date tools, improved patient experience, and clinical and operational efficiencies. Serves as an expert resource to provide reporting and analysis guidance and support. Responsible for weekly, monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad-hoc reports design and distribution.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Updates job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art/industry-relevant tools, techniques, and equipment; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications. maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

+ Collaborate with various health system stakeholders to design and develop data models and reporting solutions for quality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, and health system operations.

+ Develop and incorporate clinical service line and department patient experience, clinical, quality, and operational reports, scorecards, and databases utilized to improve clinical and operational processes. Work collaboratively with other teams to provide analytical support to periodic quality reporting to external parties (Press Ganey, CMS, Vizient, Leapfrog, etc.), including data validation, discrepancy analysis, market reference, and benchmark establishment.

+ Responsible for the collection, analysis, and reporting of data from multiple data sources to create actionable reports and knowledge for peers and leadership. Abstract information for decision support purposes, including service-line reporting and other duties as may be identified to assist decision-making.

+ Provides technical support to other analysts, managers, clinicians, and executives in utilizing health data. Monitor adherence to data standards, support clients with a broad range of technical expertise, and provide technical and end-user documentation. Prepare and assist in the presentation of the strategic process and outcomes metrics.

+ Assist in developing ETL (Extraction, Transformation, and Loading) processes to acquire and load data from internal and external sources.

+ Extract, interpret, analyze, and prepare presentations of such information for senior management (e.g., patient experience, service line, DRG, and physician profiling).

+ Assists with data for implementing patient experience and quality improvement processes and initiatives. Research other qualified outside benchmark data for comparison to internal benchmarks. Manage and design reports and benchmarking results clearly and concisely, and process and interpret report data for decision-making effectively and efficiently. Serve as a liaison

KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS/ABILITIES

+ Ability to multi-task, prioritize workload, respond to urgent requests, and work under pressure with short time constraints.

+ Ability to speak proficiently in both clinical and financial terms.

+ Skill a database and query design and development for modeling and reporting.

+ Experience with Qlik, Tableau, Power BI, or other data and visualization tools is preferred.

+ Knowledge of HealthCare Informatics, Reporting, and Analytics.

+ Familiarity with writing complex Queries for analysis (i.e., SQL, R, and Python).

+ Familiarity with disease processes, care pathways, and medical terminology.

+ Proficient in Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and Access.

+ Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.

+ Excellent problem-solving or analytical skills.

+ Self-starter who works well alone and in a team.

Salary Range:

Actual salary commensurate with experience or range if discussed and approved by hiring authorities.

Work Schedule:

Partial Remote, onsite as needed. Monday through Friday, 8am to 5pm, and as needed on occasion.

Equal Employment Opportunity

UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by institutional policy or by federal, state or local laws unless such distinction is required by law. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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