Senior Quality Improvement Data Analyst

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior QI (Quality Improvement) Data Analyst collaborates with the Director of Clinical Analytics/Manager of Hospital Performance Analytics to ensure the accessibility, understanding, and active use of data necessary to enhance the quality of care, patient safety, service, and related outcomes throughout BMC. The Senior QI Data Analyst provides in-house content expertise in informatics and statistical/epidemiological analysis, as well as limited project management support.  The Senior QI Data Analyst is a customer service-oriented position that serves the analytics needs of clinicians, administrators, and staff throughout BMC.

Position: Senior Quality Improvement Data Analyst       

Department: BMC Quality Analytics

Schedule: Full Time, Hybrid

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES / DUTIES

• Serves the data and information needs of a wide variety of customers, including physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, administrators, and a wide variety of non-technical staff throughout

• Works closely with the BMC Data Hub team to extract data using SQL tools

• Performs as an expert user of the Vizient Clinical Database to acquire data needed to support customers throughout BMC

• Integrates data from BMC Data Hub, Vizient Clinical Database, and other sources as needed

• Prepares graphical reports for a wide variety of customers throughout BMC in a manner that meets the needs of end-users

• Meets with customers throughout BMC, including administrators, clinicians, and staff, to understand  data/information needed to manage the clinical enterprise and facilitate quality improvement activities

• Provides data and information to customers in a readily accessible, understandable, and actionable manner using tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, and other tools as needed

• Serves on quality improvement teams to support data and information needs of high-priority quality improvement projects.

• Supports the development, updating, and distribution of quality and patient safety dashboards and other standard reports

• Promotes continual improvement in data visualization and reporting processes

• Trains the end-user community in the pragmatic interpretation of statistics, such as statistical process control

• Provides guidance to lower-level analysts and aids the Director of Clinical Analytics/Manager of Hospital Performance Analytics in project management

• Performs other duties as assigned and/or necessary.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

EDUCATION

• Bachelor's degree required

• Master’s degree (or equivalent experience) in a relevant discipline, preferred

EXPERIENCE

• Minimum 4 years of experience working with large data sets in a position focused on the delivery of numerical data to a wide variety of customers.

• Experience in health care strongly preferred.

• Experience conducting advanced analytics using SQL

• Intermediate to advanced experience in developing dashboards using Tableau.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

The ideal candidate will have the following skills:

• Technically proficient:

  Strong coding skills. Capable of manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis, and working through challenges independently.

• Strong analytic thinking: Effective at identifying the critical question, capable of navigating the trade-off between accuracy/comprehensiveness/complexity vs. speed and simplicity, able to make independent decisions on how to adjust assumptions and analyses. Can distill complex analysis into simple charts to communicate key takeaways.

• Curious and creative: Capable of finding the right analytic approach, always asking questions and testing the data and analysis to ensure that we are answering the right key questions. 

• Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high-priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key deadlines.

• Strong verbal and written skills. Must be able to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, including physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, administrators, and a wide variety of non-technical staff.

• Excellent interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to work in a team-oriented environment.

Compensation Range:

$58,000.00- $84,000.00

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