Sr Clinical Data Analyst

St. Luke’s Health is the largest Catholic health system in greater Houston and southeast Texas. Our integrated delivery network comprises sixteen hospitals covering Houston, Brazos Valley, southeast Texas and Lake Jackson, and East Texas and Lufkin, and includes Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, the research and teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine. St. Luke’s Health is home to the Texas Heart ®Institute (THI), the top ranked heart center in Houston, and the Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, a nationally ranked NCI designated cancer center. Our integrated network of care includes more than 398 employed and 1,668 clinically aligned network providers, and more than 20,000 employees delivering high value, nationally ranked quality and compassionate care along with our Christian ministry of healing.  Our goal is to deliver accessible, nationally recognized high quality care through the highest value network for choice in healthcare for patients, employers and payers with a commitment to an equitable and personalized patient experience for all consistent with our ministry of healing.

The Sr. Clinical Data Analyst will plan, design and delivery reliable and efficient standard integrated analytics that support the Texas Division and facilities’ strategic priorities of quality initiatives.  Utilize quality data from the sources of truth identified/defined by the enterprise.  Sources may include publicly reported databases, quality benchmark platforms, the enterprise national data warehouse and other selected clinical or regulatory data reporting tools (including the facilities’ Electronic Health Record) to perform valuable clinical/quality analysis.

Under the guidance and direction of the clinical analytics leadership, they will work closely with division and hospitals’ quality teams to provide analytic support. The projects for this role will include, but are not limited to: enterprise quality dashboards, predictive analytics, advanced analytics, data visualization, outcomes measures, quality improvement, statistical and advanced modeling techniques using different types of health data, and coordinate with quality and clinical teams to develop data based recommendations and presentations to support stakeholders’ planning and decision making.

The Sr. Clinical Data Analyst will be responsible for abstracting, reporting and managing the Society for Thoracic Surgeons STS registry/database for several facilities within the Texas Division.

ESSENTIAL KEY JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Align with the national analytic strategy to be a resource in support of the Texas Division clinical analytics needs.
2. Work with the Texas Division Clinical Analytics Team members to help develop and support analytic project plans with tactics, key deliverables, and timelines to support the Division’s quality, regulatory or benchmarking reporting needs.

3. Work with customers, such as quality and clinical teams, to define the analytic needs and to provide analytic support for division/hospital quality improvement initiatives.
4. Collaborate with quality, division analytic leaders, service lines, clinical informatics, finance and others in a complex organizational matrix to achieve transformation using analytics.
5. Facilitate the development and maintenance of standard definitions for clinical analytics.
6. Responsible for proactively identifying opportunities to improve customer focus, system thinking and quality (data and functionality). Can readily identify efficient and effective options for new solutions.
7. Uses standard statistical and analytic approaches (Hypothesis Testing, Correlational Analyses, Predictive Modeling, Data Visualization, etc.); defining the appropriate methodologies through the identification of strengths and limitations of alternatives.
8. Identifies opportunities for organizational process re-engineering and performance improvement to deliver and optimize standard division analytics with the greatest possible reliability and efficiency.
9. Guide and mentor other analysts in the department during initiatives and projects as needed.
10. Other duties as assigned by management.

Education and Experience Required:

Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline

Five (5) years of relevant experience

Preferred:  Experience in a Clinical / Health care setting

Knowledge, ability and skills:

• Five (5)+ years’ experience defining requirements and developing health care specific analytics required.
• A foundation typically in analytics, statistics, and data modeling in healthcare settings
• Knowledge of analytic best practices within healthcare and across analytically driven organizations.
• Ability to analyze raw data and disseminate results, with ability to think logically and process sequentially with a high level of detailed accuracy.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and measure/monitor daily/weekly/monthly operational processes to achieve implementation of a long-range enterprise analytics strategy
• Organizational skills to facilitate a productive & healthy working environment.
• Innovation, design, planning, implementation, project management skills.
• Ability to transform ambiguous conceptual models into operational practice.
• Ability to analyze data, synthesize information, transfer knowledge.
• Ability to develop, sustain & optimize diverse professional relationships.
• Ability to motivate, influence, mentor, coach and build high performing teams
• Ability to delegate to staff & colleagues while ensuring leadership is informed.
• Ability to identify, understand and navigate real &/or perceived barriers to change
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritize projects to meet scheduled deadlines.

Disclosure Summary:

The job summary and responsibilities listed above are designed to indicate the general nature of the work performed within this job. They are not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all job responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job. Employees may be required to perform other duties as assigned