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GENERAL PURPOSE OF JOB
Advanced Healthcare Data Analysts (AHDA) bring clinical or business experience to reporting and analytics. At this level, the AHDA will independently design, build and maintain specialized analyses, reporting tasks with little supervision. The objectives at this level are advanced report writing, data validation, and end user training and education: all with minimal errors.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES - Positions in this class may perform any or all of the below listed duties. These should be interpreted as examples of the work, and are not necessarily all-inclusive.
- Generates analyses and advanced reporting solutions for the system.
- Ability to design, build and analyze complex reports with a strong understanding of data models.
- Establishes proper QA and data validation skills and applies this to their work.
- Is proficient in Excel, including pivot tables, Power Query, Dashboards, etc.
- Engagement with end users: provide report training, assist with report scoping/requirements, helps generate report specifications and checklists.
- Can build complex reports in Midas, SSRS, Crystal, Epic, Workday, or other DHS software tools.
- Builds and distributes proper Data Visualizations for end user needs: (PowerBI, Qlik, SlicerDicer, Radar Dashboards, Excel Dashboards).
- Assists data analysts with peer review and provides guidance on report development.
- This position has the opportunity to advance into a Lead Advanced Healthcare Data Analyst.
- Follows the Driscoll Way with communication, end user engagement, and customer service at all times.
- Follows all guidelines for PHI and data management.
- Performs other related work as required.
KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES
Knowledge of:
The job requires the ability to design reports using industry standard tools to mine data from the hospital’s clinical enterprise systems. The information produced is for enhancing business/clinical processes. The successful candidate should have working experience with relational database querying tools and critical thinking skills to determine the appropriate course of action to meet reporting needs. The successful candidate must possess the ability to work in a team setting as well as independently and possess excellent analytical skills. Communication skills need to be above average to assess customer needs, assist others with report writing, and explain reports to customer audience. Preferred candidates must be well versed in clinical reporting. Preferred candidate will have healthcare industry or related experience, prior experience working with an Electronic Medical Record (EMR)system, knowledge of Clarity data structure clinical applications, experience with report performance tuning and optimization, experience with SQL query writing and comfortable in making data manipulations and calculations directly in the SQL script.
Specific Focus Area Requirements
Clinical:
- Graduate from an accredited college/university preferred
- Clinical experience preferred
- Prior experience with information systems with clinical information system experience preferred.
- Provide leadership in the development of hospital initiatives or programs related to data collection, retrieval, analysis and interpretation to assist in optimizing patient outcomes and/or effectiveness and efficiency.
- Must be able to extract internally generated data from current clinical modules within the electronic medical record. In addition to the internal data, will need to work with external data sources to provide external benchmarking comparisons and identify thorough clinical data.
- Exhibits the ability to produce reports for internal clinical data and external data as necessary.
- Serves as an expert on clinical data production/interpretation.
- Collaborate with colleagues and provide insight on data generation and interpret results and help facilitate recommendations/solutions.
- Facilitate standardization of definitions to help provide consistent measurements of data throughout the facility.
- Assess other clinical databases for attributes, data validation and necessity.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE - Any combination of education and experience that would likely provide the required knowledge, skills, and abilities is qualifying.
- Degree in the fields such as Statistics, Data Mining and Analytics, Clinical Analytics, or Health Care Administration with Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience preferred.
- 2 - 3 years of reporting and analytics experience or preferred degree with at least 3 years of business experience (nursing, epidemiology, health plan, etc.)
