Data Analyst

Job Description: Join Ingalls Memorial Hospital as a Data Analyst in our Harvey office.
The Data Analyst is accountable for the accuracy and integrity of clinical data needed to make informed decisions related to patient safety, quality, and risk management.This individual will conduct analysis to maintain our organization's dedication to providing high quality patient care.
Job SummaryThe position supports clinical performance through abstraction, review, and reporting of data from multiple sources, including, but not limited to: the clinical record financial systems, manually abstracted data, dashboards, etc. to support various initiatives related to quality improvement, accreditation, and regulatory requirements. Collaborates with clinical informaticists, data analysts, clinicians, administrators, and others to identify opportunities that support high-value, patient-centered care. Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team to assist in the implementation of quality and safety programs and initiatives. Supports the clinical excellence office in promoting and implementing quality, safety and risk reduction goals associated with the quality plan, dashboard and annual operation plan objectives. Actively utilizes skills in data analysis to proactively identify potential opportunities for improving the delivery of high-quality, safe patient care.
Job Functions

• Provide abstraction and analysis of clinical medical record documentation and hospital billing codes to support clinical measures of care and to identify trends and opportunities for clinical improvement
• Lead responsible work through to completion
• Work with inter-disciplinary teams to continue large scale project
• Ensure compliance with requirements from CMS (e.g. Meaningful Use, Core Measures, Inpatient Quality Reporting, and Outpatient Quality Reporting) and other payers and regulators with respect to reporting of clinical quality and other quality-related initiatives
  
• Communicate performance and technical definitions of national measures of quality and patient safety to key stakeholders to support reporting requirements and quality improvement initiatives
• Engage clinical teams in improvement initiatives through ongoing monitoring and feedback of performance
• Performs other duties assigned

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, Degree in IT, Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, Business Decision Support/Statistical Analysis, Healthcare Administration, or a clinically associated health care field preferred
• Minimum of 3-5 years directly applicable experience, including experience in health care environment.
• Experience with Core Measures/regulatory requirements and reporting
• EHR experience
• Strong analytical skills
• Advanced level skills in data analysis and software programs
• Ability to work in a time-oriented environment
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Job Details

• Job Type: Full-Time
• Shift: Days
• Unit/Department:Quality Resource Management
• CBA Code: Non-Union

Why Join Us:

For nearly a century Ingalls Memorial has pioneered sophisticated clinical care and developed the area's most convenient network of comprehensive outpatient centers, all dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of the community. Now, partnered with UChicago Medicine, we have expanded our network of expert physicians, convenient facilities and scope of service to speed your healing process and help navigate your path to wellness. A skilled Medical Staff and talented employees dedicated to prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of illness and injury provide a firm foundation for our reputation for quality. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, UChicago Medicine Ingalls Memorial is for you. Here at Ingalls, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us!

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