Healthcare Data Analyst I

position summary
Member of the Cardiology data science team, providing readily available and actionable data to inform and influence team decision-making and drives better patient care and outcomes. Provides departmental data support for aggregation of healthcare data, including quality, patient, and financial, to support departmental reporting needs. Researches, designs, develops, implements, and maintains reporting and analytical facilities in the context of the hospital’s clinical and/or financial systems.. Provides administrative support to the Director of Heart Center Quality Improvement (QI) and supports ad hoc QI data and analytical requests.
Key responsibilities

• Assists in the research, design, development, implementation, and maintenance of reporting and analytical tools in the context of the Department and hospital’s clinical and/or financial systems. Collaborates with clinical and administrative staff to ensure that reports are timely, accurate, meaningful, and interpretable..
• Performs standardized data validation activities to ensure the accuracy of information prior to sharing with audiences and the highest quality information for decision-making
• Assists in the creation of databases as needed and maintains a valid, accurate data repository to ensure availability of required information, including the Cardiology data repository, ensuring it is accurate and accessible for applicable users Assists in the definition of key data elements, data collection procedures, and integrity of databases. Improves and maintains the production environment for tasks and applications.
• Works with team members to develop insightful display of data using visualization tools.
• Assists in the interpretation of data, and provides team with data-driven recommendations.
• Provides administrative support to the Director of Heart Center QI, including scheduling, communications, meeting preparation, and coordination of departmental initiatives.

Minimum qualifications
education:

• High School / GED required. Bachelors preferred.

experience:

• Experience with Data Analytics tools
• Understanding of basic relational database concepts, SQL syntax, and coding practices. In addition, familiarity with dimensional data modeling concepts used in data warehousing, business intelligence, and business analytics applications.
• Ability to translate reporting needs expressed in clinical or operational terms to technical solutions based on existing data, data structures, and query tool functionality.

Schedule:
40 hours weekly, Monday- Friday, hours between 8 am and 5pm. Hybrid, requiring at least 1x a week onsite in Boston, MA

The posted pay range is Boston Children’s reasonable and good-faith expectation for this pay at the time of posting.

Any base pay offer provided depends on skills, experience, education, certifications, and a variety of other job-related factors. Base pay is one part of a comprehensive benefits package that includes flexible schedules, affordable health, vision and dental insurance, child care and student loan subsidies, generous levels of time off, 403(b) Retirement Savings plan, Pension, Tuition and certain License and Certification Reimbursement, cell phone plan discounts and discounted rates on T-passes. Experience the benefits of passion and teamwork.