Manager, Healthcare Data Analysis-Department of Pediatrics
Full Time
Boston, MA 02115
Posted
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The Department of Pediatrics (DoP) is the largest clinical department within Boston Children's Hospital with 800+ faculty members on staff. The DoP consists of 14 clinical divisions that encompass ambulatory as well as inpatient areas along with the Emergency Department. With 200,000+ ambulatory visits and 20,000+ medical admissions per year, ample opportunities exist for improvement work. Our DoP Quality team currently tracks over 400 quality measures across all the clinical divisions. More than 50% of these represent measures of clinical outcomes. Each division maintains a robust inventory of clinical quality and safety improvement projects that are all driven by data captured from our electronic information capture systems.
The Manager, Healthcare Data Analysis will be responsible for:
The Department of Pediatrics (DoP) is the largest clinical department within Boston Children's Hospital with 800+ faculty members on staff. The DoP consists of 14 clinical divisions that encompass ambulatory as well as inpatient areas along with the Emergency Department. With 200,000+ ambulatory visits and 20,000+ medical admissions per year, ample opportunities exist for improvement work. Our DoP Quality team currently tracks over 400 quality measures across all the clinical divisions. More than 50% of these represent measures of clinical outcomes. Each division maintains a robust inventory of clinical quality and safety improvement projects that are all driven by data captured from our electronic information capture systems.
The Manager, Healthcare Data Analysis will be responsible for:
- 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.
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