NCH IMG Senior Data Analyst

at NorthShore University Health System in Evanston, Illinois, United States

Job Description

Position Highlights:
Sign on bonus: (if applicable)
Position:
Location: [City, IL]
Full Time/Part Time: [Full Time / Part Time]
Hours: Monday-Friday, [hours and flexible work schedules]
Required Travel:
A Brief Overview:
Provides analytics that support data-driven decision making and the development, tracking and reporting of access and quality metrics for Healthcare Transformation Program leaders in both clinical and administrative settings. Through the Healthcare Transformation Program, Swedish and NorthShore Medical Groups are embedding specialty care (cardiology, sports medicine/orthopedics, dermatology, endocrinology and gastroenterology) into Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) to increase health access and equity. The program will also connect patients with resources in the areas of social determinants of health (SDOH) such as food security, healthy relationships, housing for the homeless and transportation. The Data Analyst's role includes gathering, analyzing and reporting on various types of data and communicating results of analysis to program leaders and other stakeholders as well as developing tools that measure outcomes, recommend action and guide decision-making. This position interfaces with colleagues at all levels of the organization as well as liaise with community partners, FQHCs, and consultants. This position will require an understanding of how the application of analytical techniques correlate to business value and will necessitate being able to select the appropriate analytical techniques for the problem at hand.

What you will do:
Knowledge and application of NorthShore policies and procedures that apply to job and area of responsibility.
Create analytical tools that allow non-technical leaders to leverage complex data to make program decisions; design and program complex queries against NorthShore proprietary databases that span clinical and financial domains; Create reports for end-users that can either run on demand or automatically
Support data-driven decision making and analysis; Interface with program leaders and stakeholders to translate operational goals into tools that support data driven decision making; Educate and consult with program leaders on how to leverage NorthShore's data warehouse to support the operational and analytics needs of the program; Translate abstract operational goals into specific datasets and analysis that answer questions related to the program; Liaises with external partners in order to provide data to measure the impact of the Healthcare Transformation as an innovative, equity-focused model that improves access and reduces costs
Serve as data subject matter expert; Understand what data is available in the organization in the various systems supported by HIT; Answer questions from end-users and other analysts about the data in NorthShore's databases that relate to the program;
Serve on and work with the program's Quality Oversight Committee to create an access and quality dashboard for the program and each specialty using the IL Dept. of Healthcare and Family Services' Pillars of Quality Strategy and existing
Develop metrics and tracking systems related to the social determinant of health that the program will address, such as food security, healthy relationships, housing for the homeless and transportation.
Prepare regular reports of access and quality metrics, patient volumes, demographics, payer mix, social determinants of health etc. for the Quality Oversight Committee and department chairs and hospital administrative leads and to be reported subsequently to the medical staff and Board of Directors.
Engage with and receive support, training, mentoring and direction from the NorthShore Data Analytics team.
Collaborate with Swedish/Northshore teams involved with health equity work to develop new tools for applying an equity lens to the metrics that the program tracks and relating them to other system and Swedish health equity metrics.
What you will need:
Bachelors Degree Mathematics Required Or
Bachelors Degree Information Technology Required Or
Bachelors Degree Statistics Required Or
Bachelors Degree Computer and Information Science Required
2 Years of analytics, programming, statistics, or mathematics experience required. Previous healthcare experience preferred. And
1 Year Experience with relational databases, data warehousing, data mining, or related computing environments And
1 Year Experience with business intelligence tools (e.g. Cognos, Business Objects) or statistical programs (i.e. SPSS, SAS, R)
Exceptionally strong analytic abilities, with a proven track record of driving insightful findings from quantitative and qualitative dataBenefits:
Career Pathways to Promote Professional Growth and Development
Various Medical, Dental, and... For full info follow application link.

EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.