Sr Clinical Data Analyst

Access and analysis of clinical and quality data is critical to optimizing patient outcomes and assuring the success of any healthcare provider in today's healthcare environment. The Senior Clinical Data Analyst is a subject-matter specialist with an in-depth understanding of data structure, clinical data systems, and the analysis of data measures and reports with specific clinical contexts. This role supports clinical and quality data management in one or more areas and is responsible for the management of data reporting and analysis, development and validation of measues, understanding of relevant workflows, identification of technical systematic requirements, and maintenance of internal UH databases. This role leverages a variety of data sources to asses the impacts of hospital clinical and quality improvement initiatives.

What You Will Do

• Use of Systems: Performs concurrent & retrospective electronic data collection from clinical and operational databases, optimizes integration of data from multiple data systems.
• Data Analysis: Analyzes clinical and operational data, develops summary reports / sashboards and recommendations, control charts / graphs, trends outcomes, identifies opportunities for improvement, collaborates with team members, and supports recommendations with data and judgment.
• Communication: Supports and facilitates clinical and quality improvement initiatives in collaboration with domain specialists through meeting attendance, data preparation, leading analytical discussions, effective written/verbal communication skills, professional interpersonal skills. Maintains optimal communication with management regarding data requests.
• Senior Role Expectations: Leads analytical training/education for teams, mentors staff, presents outcomes to leadership and physicians, identifies and corrects data errors, proactively communicates opportunities for improvement, establishes positive relationships with other departments, and serves as a primary resource for the data analytics team within the UH System of care.

Additional Responsibilities

• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Complies with all policies and standards.
• For specific duties and responsibilities, refer to documentation provided by the department during orientation.
• Must abide by all requirements to safely and securely maintain Protected Health Information (PHI) for our patients. Annual training, the UH Code of Conduct and UH policies and procedures are in place to address appropriate use of PHI in the workplace.