Senior Data Analyst - Clinical Analytics

Job Description:
Position Highlights:
We are currently seeking Data Analyst III for our Data Analytics team. It is a senior clinical and business intelligence development role serving the entire healthcare enterprise and involved with the most critical and innovative operational, business, and research analytics initiatives.
The Data Analytics team's important and growing role is to provide "Clinical Business Intelligence" to NorthShore, with a special focus on Quality and clinical standardization. We develop and implement methodologies to identify unwanted practice variation, support quality improvement workflows, access and utilization, and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions. We work closely with Enterprise Data Warehouse, Finance, Quality, Research, and clinical leadership teams, and have opportunities to use and develop novel informatics technologies, including predictive models, learning systems and natural language processing tools. Data Analytics team is responsible for many influential publications and conference presentations.
This is a full-time, benefits eligible position. While primarily remote, there are occasional requirements to participate in team events, on-site presentations and design sessions, and other interaction opportunities in person - enabling effective teamwork and collaboration with customers in clinical and business areas of the organization.
We are unable to offer 100% remote work environment at this time, and we are also unable to offer work visa sponsorship. You must be located in state of Illinois, or one of the nearby states.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Be responsible for leading analytics-based quality improvement projects that leverage data collected from electronic medical record to measure and predict patient outcomes.
• Serve as a liaison between clinical experts, business leaders, and IT professionals to determine feasibility, timelines, and costs of quality improvement projects.
• Gather business requirements by conducting meetings/interviews, and facilitating large group/cross-functional sessions with customers, while containing the scope of the initiative.
• Produce datasets and reports that will facilitate evidence-based clinical and financial decisions.
• Design and develop reports/dashboards and data extracts using skills developed in a minimum of two of the following tools: Microsoft Reporting Services, Tableau, Power BI, Epic Reporting Workbench, and Epic Radar.
• Work with statisticians and mathematicians to design predictive models using statistical and machine learning methods that will predict patient outcomes.
• Work with clinical experts to analyze data that will help drive decisions on patient centered interventions and quality & performance goals.
• Work with IT and data warehouse experts to design and develop new summary tables and data marts in Enterprise Data Warehouse.
• Ensure all developed solutions are tuned to meet acceptable system performance thresholds.
• Effectively manage multiple concurrent assignments, produce usable documentation and share code & knowledge within Data Analytics team and, as applicable, with colleagues in IT.
• Be part of a talented innovative team that loves what it does, takes pride in its analytics work and impacts across the organization, and is a friendly group where everyone works well with each other.

Our ideal candidate will have:

• Strong intellectual curiosity
• 4 year college degree in information systems, computer science, mathematics, finance, statistics, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience with business intelligence, data warehousing, programming, or statistics
• Demonstrated proficiency writing complex SQL, PL/SQL, stored procedures, or other database experience.
• Experience and understanding of data sources including 3rd party RDBMS, MS access, SQL server and Oracle.
• Strong analytic, problem solving, negotiation, issue resolution and facilitation skills are required.
• Demonstrated strong written and verbal communication and decision-making skills.
• Experience with Tableau, Power BI and/or similar data visualization tools and processes is a plus.
• Statistical or mathematical skills or experience working with statistics packages (SPSS, SAS, R etc) is a plus.
• Epic or another commercial electronic health record (EHR) experience and certifications are a plus.
• Master's level degree or above in a related field is a plus.
• Experience in leading projects that span cross-functional teams is a plus.
• Familiarity with healthcare industry or healthcare information systems is a plus.

Epic Clarity certification will be required during the first year of employment - a process that requires formal Epic training, attendance of in-person and remote classes, student projects, and examinations. You will be provided with time and learning opportunities to attain this certification during the course of employment.
When you work for NorthShore - Edward-Elmhurst Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential. Please explore our website (www.northshore.org) to better understand how NorthShore - Edward-Elmhurst Health delivers on its mission to "help everyone in our communities be their best". NorthShore - Edward-Elmhurst Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information.
Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all.
EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.
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