Manager, Healthcare Data Analysis-Department of Pediatrics

Job Posting Description

• Manages a team of Healthcare Data Analysts to ensure timely delivery, accuracy, and consistency of healthcare data reports in support of the division's goals. Recruits, hires, manages, motivates, and develops assigned staff.
• Conducts performance reviews and recommends promotions, merit raises, and disciplinary action.
• Plans and oversees the administration of the department's healthcare analytics activities. Ensures efficacy of healthcare benchmarks across the department.
• Researches, designs, develops, implements, and maintains reporting and analytical facilities in the context of the hospital's clinical and/or financial systems.
• Collaborates with clinical and administrative staff to ensure that reports are timely, accurate, meaningful, and interpretable.
• Ensures that analyses and reports provide detailed, specific data regarding performance of individuals, teams, programs, divisions, and the department as a whole.
• Generates reports from internal and external sources, including benchmarking databases (e.g. PHIS, PACT, specialty-specific registries).
• Utilizes standard statistical packages (e.g., SAS, R, Stata, SPSS) and other project-specific software. Ensures that code is accurate, efficient, well commented, and organized.
• Provides analyses and reports of performance indicators, providing trended data using statistical process control or other appropriate epidemiological techniques.
• Defines work requirements and sets goals for team; designs and implements systems to catalog, organize and manage work requests; develops data documentation systems and tools.

• Five years experience or M.S. degree and 3 years of related experience. Bachelor's Degree required. Master's preferred.
• Working knowledge of claims data and risk arrangement methodology is preferred.
• Technical awareness of coding systems, data types, and data structures used to store clinical, demographic, and financial data in healthcare databases is preferred.
• Knowledge of basic relational database concepts.
• Knowledge of clinical concepts, terminology, and workflow - preferably as they apply to pediatrics.
• One year of experience in a pediatric healthcare setting is preferred.
• Working knowledge of the value and use of standardized definitions, calculations, naming, and data storage conventions when working with tools to access data and conduct and maintain analyses and reports.
• Attention to detail and ability to develop and maintain effective metadata/documentation to ensure compliance with data governance and data quality processes and procedures.
• Excellent communication skills.