DATA ANALYST 3

Company Description

The University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS) is an academic private health system, focused on delivering compassionate, high quality care and putting discovery and innovation into practice at the bedside. Partnering with the University of Maryland School of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Nursing and University of Maryland, Baltimore who educate the state’s future health care professionals, UMMS is an integrated network of care, delivering 25 percent of all hospital care in urban, suburban and rural communities across the state of Maryland. UMMS puts academic medicine within reach through primary and specialty care delivered at 11 hospitals, including the flagship University of Maryland Medical Center, the System’s anchor institution in downtown Baltimore, as well as through a network of University of Maryland Urgent Care centers and more than 150 other locations in 13 counties. For more information, visit www.umms.org.

Job Description

General Summary

Under limited supervision analyzes claims, electronic health record, health information exchange, and other data sources to identify opportunities for clinical improvement activities and coordinates directly with the leadership of the Population Health Services Organization. Ultimately, these opportunities are effectively communicated to the participating physicians of the University of Maryland Quality Care Network. Assists in determining what clinical improvement initiatives are needed and what reports and/or visualizations are necessary for the QCN to achieve shared savings within each payer contract. Serves as a liaison to the Information Services & Technology (IS&T) department to assist in the development of UMMS proprietary population health analytical tools. Delegates tasks to other team members as necessary.

Principal Responsibilities and Tasks

The following statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. These are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

• Identify trends, opportunities, and needs for physician practices by using the analytics platform to define actions in effort to drive results improvement in QCN value-based contracts, while also supporting the success of UMMS in the hospital waiver program. This requires thorough knowledge of federal and commercial payer claims data files to conceptualize what reporting is possible and valuable.
• Leads statistical analysis for projects and reports.
•  Provide recommendations and reports/visualizations of specific actions or work based on analysis and research.
•  Track the results of implemented recommendations for progress and impact (provide pre/post analysis)
• Identify early trends that illustrate opportunities to implement corrective actions
•  Make data-driven decisions based on standard health plan measures and physician group contract measures
• Quantify return on investment (ROI) to illustrate the health plan programs’ effectiveness
•  Work with industry standard data query and analysis tools to drive business decisions
• Operate in a self-directed work environment to accomplish goals and initiatives
• Work to implement dashboards for critical success metrics reporting and tracking on programs and implementation
• Perform various ad-hoc analysis to drive business decisions across all functional business groups
• Analyze, manipulate and extract data from a variety of relational databases.
• Liaise with the IS&T team to ensure UMMS analytics platform meets the requirements of the QCN and the broader system in product owner capacity. Assists in guiding design decision making on the capture of claims information. Assists in the development of Tableau dashboards to support population health initiatives
• Delegates reporting and analytics tasks to data analytics team members and monitors their performance.
• Participates in the interview and selection process for other team members.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required. B.S. in Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field preferred.
•  4+ years of data analysis and reporting, or equivalent experience, required.
• Health care experience required.
• Population Health experience strongly preferred.
• Experience leading other team members preferred.
• Strong knowledge of multi-payer claims files, including content and structure.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Strong organizational, quantitative and problem solving skills with strategic and creative thinking
• Proficient with data visualization tools such as GGPlot, Tableau,