Lead Analyst - Health Equity Analytics

Details

Department : Ascension Data Science Institute

Schedule : Full-time, 8 hour day shift, Monday - Wednesday

Location : Remote

Salary : $91,107.00 - $126,998.00 per year

Benefits

Paid time off (PTO)

Various health insurance options & wellness plans

Retirement benefits including employer match plans

Long-term & short-term disability

Employee assistance programs (EAP)

Parental leave & adoption assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Ways to give back to your community

Benefit options and eligibility vary by position. Compensation varies based on factors including, but not limited to, experience, skills, education, performance, location and salary range at the time of the offer.

Responsibilities

The Ascension Data Sciences Institute (ADSI) was created in July 2019 with the mission of supporting Ascension in achieving its Quadruple Aim with uniquely skilled, high-performing associates who develop analyses, models and applications to enable Ascension in providing higher value healthcare and making strategic decisions. ADSI is comprised of 6 domains addressing 1) Clinical quality and patient safety; 2) Health Economics and Clinical Outcomes; 3) Strategic Operations and Financial Analytics; 4) Actuarial and Managed Care Analytics; 5) Registry Abstraction Healthcare Solutions; and 6) Healthcare Data Intelligence. We recognize that the healthcare environment is a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving clinical and economic practices that affect patient and provider experience and demands increasingly sophisticated and complex measurement. Our objective is for advanced analytics and data science to play a critical and foundational role in the transformation of care delivery, quality and financial outcomes to enable our organization's competitive advantage.

We are hiring a Lead Analyst on the Health Equity Analytics team to support Ascension's Health Equity and Community Impact initiatives and those of the Ascension Foundation.

In this position, you will be involved in designing analytics and reporting to assess and monitor trends in health equity, including the overall health and well-being of vulnerable populations we serve. This role will leverage geospatial analytic tools to inform strategic decision-making to support and enhance the care for the poor and vulnerable. You will be expected to work with data management teams to compile datasets from a variety of sources to provide a comprehensive picture of medical and non-medical determinants of health and healthcare utilization. Your work will directly impact health care for vulnerable populations.

You will apply logic to various data sources to develop metrics and report on risks across multiple domains including preventive care, social determinants of health, modifiable behaviors and chronic disease burden. As a liaison between analytics and various national and market-level stakeholders, you will need to have expertise in creating customer-facing reports and self-service visualizations and communicating with clinical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead reporting for data analysis teams and projects writing queries and functional reporting design documents

Lead development of reporting dashboards and data visualizations to support various clinical stakeholders

Identify data trends, make recommendations for improvement, design and implement projects requiring systems integration, small teams and multiple technical platforms

Coordinate across functional and data teams to ensure consistency and optimization of the overall work product. Suggest solutions, improvements, and efficiencies in data quality and management.

Mentor the work of less experienced analysts.

Assume a proactive role in driving improvement activities to achieve department and organizational goals to deliver value.

Write complex SQL or similar queries, use statistical programming languages, and develop complex visualizations.

Utilize geospatial software (ArcGIS, ArcPRO) to produce visualizations of population health trends and insights

Experience

At least 3 years of relevant experience, some leadership experience recommended.

Strong SQL and Tableau skills required

Experience working with ArcGIS or other geospatial analytic software required

Experience working with EMR and adjudicated claims data

Experience working collaboratively with Clinical Stakeholders preferred

Experience with data visualization preferred.

Project Management skills a plus

Experience with BigQuery and Google Cloud Platform a plus

Experience with a programming language such as R or Python a plus

Requirements

Education

• High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate'sdegree / Bachelor's degree with 1 year of experience OR 5 years of applicable cumulative job specificexperience required. 2 years of leadership or management experience preferred.

Additional Preferences

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Why Join Our Team

Ascension associates are key to our commitment of transforming healthcare and providing care to all, especially those most in need. Join us and help us drive impact through reimagining how we can deliver a people-centered healthcare experience and creating the solutions to do it. Explore career opportunities across our ministry locations and within our corporate headquarters.

Ascension is a leading non-profit, faith-based national health system made up of over 134,000 associates and 2,600 sites of care, including more than 140 hospitals and 40 senior living communities in 19 states.

Our Mission, Vision and Values encompass everything we do at Ascension. Every associate is empowered to give back, volunteer and make a positive impact in their community. Ascension careers are more than jobs; they are opportunities to enhance your life and the lives of the people around you.

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