Mgr,Clinical Qlty Improvement

Mgr,Clinical Qlty Improvement

Requisition ID req36821 Working Title Mgr,Clinical Qlty Improvement Position Grade 14 Position Summary

The University of New Mexico Health Science Center, Department of Family & Community Medicine, seeks to hire a highly motivated individual with a background in healthcare administration and an interest in advancing primary care quality improvement. The position will report to the Department Administrator and be responsible for advising and assisting the departmental Clinical Vice Chair, the Quality and Safety Officer, and other clinical and research faculty leaders with the development, preparation, interpretation, and monitoring of complex healthcare analyses, data projection, and reports used by clinical system management to advance value-driven outcomes for patients.

 Responsibilities include standardizing and cleaning data, building prediction models, modeling outcomes, and developing metrics for complex data analysis projects. The position will address data requirements, including quality and performance metrics for analytic reporting and operating areas, with expertise in specific data systems and/or analytical methodologies. Proficiency with a variety of tools (e.g., Cerner, REDCap, Tableau, Midas, Smartsheet, Microsoft products, etc.) will enable extraction of data, writing queries, developing programming logic, running of reports, manipulation of data, and analysis of datasets to meet the needs of the department.

Opportunities include defining, refining, and analyzing meaningful metrics that will improve health outcomes for patients in our family medicine clinics, enhance the financial well-being of the department, and advance innovations and scholarship in primary care quality improvement. This position will also liaise with key community stakeholders in primary care across the state to promote opportunities to build a community of practice that enables sharing of knowledge and best-practices as we the department builds capacity for innovative statewide collaboration.

Essential functions:

•  Extracts, analyzes, and interprets moderate-to-complex population health data using actionable analytics to improve patient outcomes for primary care clinicians.
• Performs analysis and modeling techniques on large clinical, financial, and/or operational data sets.
• Develops graphical presentations of health data that can be used to illustrate findings using data visualization tools and provide analytic guidance and technical support to other analysts, managers, clinicians, and executives utilizing data.
• Assists in the planning, implementing, and evaluating of health care for individuals and populations across the continuum of care through analytics solutions.
• Interprets data analysis and business intelligence tools such as Tableau, Excel, and SPSS to produce reports and perform meaningful quantitative or qualitative analyses addressing impactful business issues or questions via ad hoc and routine reporting.
• Utilizes methods from outside of healthcare; utilizes data broadly using traditional and non-traditional databases.
• Forecasts the impact of system changes to establish targets and mitigate business risk. Has a strong understanding of external pressures.
• Models and frames meaningful scenarios that impact critical business processes and decisions.
• Communicates and works to analyze informatio