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THE MEDICAL HEART OF MARYLAND

Treating over 330,000 patients every year, the University of Maryland Medical Center is at the vital core of Maryland’s health care system and community. We’re known for our prestigious expertise in innovative research and education, along with the talented staff and advanced centers that make it all possible. The R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, the world’s first center dedicated to trauma, treats more than 7,500 critically injured patients a year with an incredible 97 percent survival rate. We also have one of the nation’s largest kidney and pancreas transplant programs at The Joseph and Corinne Schwartz Division of Transplantation, home to Maryland’s first steroid-free protocol and pancreas / kidney transplant. From our National Cancer Institute-designated UM Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Cancer Center to The University of Maryland’s Children’s Hospital, one of the largest pediatric centers in the state, we are dedicated to saving and transforming lives.

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General Summary

Responsible for the development, implementation, and maintenance of a comprehensive data governance framework encompassing processes that pertain to the sourcing, management and consumption of data across all departments within the UMMC’s Office of Health Analytics and Informatics (OHAI).  Expected to collaborate with Data & Analytics, Service Lines, Information Technology, the Office of the Chief Clinical Officer, Faculty Practice Group (FPI), Quality & Safety, Corporate Offices, and other key stakeholder groups to optimize data collection, aggregation, analysis, and utilization to improve quality of care, operational processes, and financial outcomes.

Will lead the data and analytic needs of UMMC across both campuses, the FPI and University of Maryland School of Medicine. OHAI’s offerings include clinical, financial, and quality reporting and analytics, on-demand reporting, self-service reporting, advanced analytics through Big Data solutions and platforms, data extracts, data governance, data integration, data management, data architecture, application integration, and web service integration.

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.  They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all job duties performed by personnel so classified.

Develop, implement, and manage a data governance framework operationalizing a strategic, structured, and coordinated program to enhance the organization’s ability to manage relevant data assets with a focus on quality and financial optimization and adherence to regulatory and compliance data requirements.

• Oversee the development of data policies and protocols in relation to areas such as data quality assurance, data access and utilization, and data life cycle management.
• Oversees the integrity, usability, analysis and security of all data assets at the University of Maryland Medical Center in coordination with UMMS, FPI, and UMSOM
• Maintain an inventory of all data sources supplied to any member of the UMMC, UMSOM, and FPI staff, which includes identification of source, owner, included metrics, metric definitions, interval of distribution and identification of end-users utilizing an end-to-end data lifecycle management approach
• Responsible for the execution, implementation, and oversight of the organization’s strategic data goals
• Facilitate the development and implementation of data quality standards and data protection standards
• Identify opportunities pertaining to the use of information assets to achieve efficiency and effectiveness and represent data as a strategic asset
• Meets with users to determine data needs, ensure users understand data to develop project plans that will meet organizational objectives.
• Collaborates with Data Analysts and IT to ensure data alignment, quality, and availability
• Anticipates the needs of internal and external customers and exceeds the expectations of our patients and others that we serve.
• Serves as a member of cross-functional teams to achieve goals of BI (and broader Data & Analytics) projects, including work plans, system design, and testing of solutions.
• Create data transparency by ensuring all available data in the data ecosystem can be utilized by any service for improvement, subject to usage and access restrictions
• Facilitate the identification, alignment, and synchronizing of data collection, analysis, and reporting.
• Identify and facilitate the implementation of best practices for the governance, aggregation, and utilization of data to drive operational and financial improvement.
• Provide oversight of data analysts / scientists and maintain awareness of issues with data collection, alignment, and integrity.
• Performs the following functions to support informatic optimization and management :

Participate in EPIC functionality optimization and planning of new EPIC workflows, protocols, and processes to drive clinical quality improvements, efficiencies, and patient / physician experience at UMMC.  Must comprehend key interfaces and how these pertain to clinical care.

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