Data Analyst

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Trend data to identify potential opportunities (e.g., variances, significant outliers, percentile ranked groups) for quality improvement or focused investigations.
• Aid in design data analysis strategies to identify potential areas for quality improvement or focused investigation.
• Analyze data, draw conclusions, and summarize into quality indicator values.
• Develop tabular and graphical presentations of data, which clearly and concisely illustrate current levels of care.
• Populate tabular and graphical presentation of data.
• Contribute to the development of interventions (i.e., develop educational materials for doctors and nurses) which will improve healthcare processes and outcomes.
• Facilitate design re-measurement strategies (after intervention) of healthcare processes and outcomes to effectively quantify impact of interventions for improvement.
• Analyze re-measurement data and summarize into quality indicator values.
• Support development of reports concerning all of the above.
• May mentor junior Data Analysts in technical aspects of their work.
• Assist in preparing findings for publishing in peer reviewed journals.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• Bachelor''s degree (BA or BS) in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health or related discipline (e.g., Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science) required.

• Minimum of 2 years of hands-on SAS or other statistical programming work experience, or demonstrated combination of education and experience.
• 6 months experience with health related analytic research and quality improvement methodology (ISO, CQI, TQM, Six Sigma, Lean, Etc.) preferred.