Healthcare Quality Measure Developer

Overview

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The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Healthcare Quality Measure Developer in our Clinical Research Services department supporting our National Center office located in Dallas, TX. This role can be home based or from our National Center in Dallas, TX.

 

This is a full time, benefits eligible, grant funded opportunity. Current funding will expire on August 1, 2026, with the possibility of extension.

 

 

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Responsibilities

This individual will be responsible for providing administrative, analytic, and technical support for the development, specification, maintenance, harmonization, and endorsement of measures used in the organization’s suite of quality programs, including Get With The Guidelines: Stroke, Heart Failure, Atrial Fibrillation, Resuscitation and Coronary Artery Disease; ambulatory quality initiatives, special disease-focused initiatives, certification programs, and EMS Mission: Lifeline. They will provide advanced data analytics support related to measures by preparing reports and conducting feasibility, reliability, and validity testing, and will develop and maintain standardized documentation for program measures.

 

• Collaborate with volunteers and staff (measures, research, programs, and Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) staff) to operationalize quality measure concepts and evidence into detailed measure specifications for implementation in the organization’s quality programs.
• Contribute to the design, development, and testing of clinical quality measures.
• Provide strategic and technical expertise related to digital quality measures.
• Assist in developing measure-related resources for external use, such as: educational documents, measure logic, and programming queries.
• Analyze existing program measures to identify potentially unnecessary variance and gaps in measures.
• Assist in monitoring relevant national programs such as the Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS): Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and, Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program (HIQR); as well as The Joint Commission; Million Hearts; etc. for changes that may impact measures or programs.
• Coordinate with other staff to communicate changes in national programs and impact to volunteer workgroups and other staff members.
• Create ad-hoc data reports and visualizations to support measure development and testing using raw data sets.
• Conduct feasibility, reliability, and validity testing of measures to support endorsement efforts and potential inclusion in payment programs.
• Create and maintain standardized documentation for measures used in the organization’s quality programs, including documentation of the organizations registry programs and measures information in national programs, databases, and clearinghouses.
• Provide project management support and subject matter expertise for the submission of American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association measures to national endorsement organizations for consideration and/or maintenance of measure endorsement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• At least two (2) years of relevant experience
• Familiarity with the broader healthcare quality measurement environment and related organizations
• Detail oriented with data analysis experience
• Excellent writing and oral presentation skills
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to travel 15% local and overnight stay

 

Preferred Skills:

• Experience with clinical performance measure development, testing, implementation and/or endorsement
• Health