Population Health Data Analyst - Bay Area Community Health

Company: Future Talent, LLC
Location: Fremont
Posted on: July 31, 2022

Job Description:

Bay Area Community Health (BACH) is hiring a Population Health Data Analyst to support clinic operations and population health initiatives by extracting, compiling, validating, analyzing, and presenting data to BACH leadership, senior management, and the agency's collaborating partners. This position will help develop and drive clinical improvement and efficiency strategies through the influential delivery of actionable analytics.
**This is a W-2 direct hire position for BACH**
Summary:

• This is a hybrid position that combines remote-work and traveling locally to visit sites as well as attending events.
• This is an opportunity to advance in population health while being part of a mission that delivers high quality, comprehensive, and affordable health care for the local community
• This position works directly with the Director of Compliance and Quality to perform a variety of complex, professional, analytical, and confidential services.
  Bay Area Community Health was formed in 2020 off the strength of southern Alameda County's Tri-City Health Center and Santa Clara County's Foothill Community Health Center. Bay Area Community Health (BACH) brings more than 70 years of combined service to the area that stretched from Union City to Gilroy.BACH serves more than 100,000 people, who rely on high-quality healthcare services, regardless of their immigration status, ethnicity, disabilities, or ability to pay.
  The Population Health Data Analyst will:
  • Advise BACH providers, leaders, and staff in the creation, interpretation, validation, and application of interactive dashboards to monitor and improve outcomes in patient care, service delivery, population health of patients and communities served, and other strategic initiatives.
  • Work with IS staff to create, edit, validate, and maintain reports and dashboards.
  • Be the proactive data lead in multi-disciplinary teams/projects to support quality improvement projects.
    Qualifications:
    • Bachelor's degree in science, public health, statistics, business, or related field with 2 years of clinical/health care experience
    • Experienced backend user of EHR system (i.e. NexGen) and EMR system (i.e. EPIC)
    • Working experience with relational databases and data manipulation (SQL, Access)
    • Highly proficient in Microsoft suite (specifically Excel)
    • Proficient in analyzing a wide array of data types, including medical and pharmacy claims, clinical process and outcome data, e.g., HEDIS and other performance metrics, and survey data.
    • Meaningful experience (2+ years) with data modeling, trend analysis, and statistical reporting.
    • Demonstrated ability to exercise good judgment, prioritize multiple projects, and problem solve under tight deadlines and resource constraints.
    • Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills and presentation skills, including ability to present complex technical concepts in a clear, concise manner to audiences with varying levels of technical understanding
      Preferred Education, Skills, and Experience
      • Master's degree or higher in public health, epidemiology, health sciences, statistics, business, finance, economics and/or health administration
      • Proficiency with visualization tools (such as Tableau).
      • Knowledge of and familiarity with NCQA
      • Knowledge of PCMH requirements/application process.
      • Experienced user of NextGen and i2iTracks.
        Competencies
        • Ability to conduct appropriate analysis independently with solid statistics knowledge and answer business questions.
        • Ability to reliably and consistently deliver quality work product on target dates with minimum supervision.
        • Willing to take the ownership and responsibility of projects.
        • Experience of data analysis/visualization tools such as Excel and Tableau.
        • Good written and verbal communication skills to allow for effective communication with a diverse audience.
        • Highly motivated and capable of adopting new methods, knowledge and skills quickly.
        • Ability to work in a team, to give and receive constructive feedback.
          Essential Responsibilities:
          • Serve as liaison with departmental leaders, Director of Compliance and Quality to develop analytical approaches for accountable care.
          • Lead efforts to ensure data integrity and validity and perform ongoing quality assurance of all data and reports.
          • Participate in developing clinical analyses, including visual displays, for BACH clinicians and operations.
          • Prepare reports and analyses of the clinical and economic impacts on the care provided to groups of patients for various quality improvement.
          • Explore variations in patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes.
          • Identify and analyze patient characteristics that are associated with particular health outcomes or are predictive of future use of particular health care services.
          • Improve the quality of data and information by working with users to identify reporting needs, define report specifications, and develop reports to meet business requirements, turning the reports/processes over to end users' control whenever possible.
          • Attend meetings as needed to provide actionable variance data, ensure appropriate interpretation of information, and elicit information needs.

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