Job Details
Job Location
Corporate Headquarters - Plymouth Meeting, PA
Remote Type
Fully Remote
Position Type
Full Time
Education Level
Graduate Degree Preferred
Travel Percentage
0%
Job Shift
Day
Job Category
Clinical Informatics/Research
Description
WHY CHOOSE ECRI?
Benefits
ECRI is an inspiring place to work. We share a common mission to help healthcare organizations make smart, compassionate, and ethical decisions for patients. Consider these additional benefits of joining the ECRI team:
- Industry leadership: We have a long history and proven reputation in patient safety and medical technology research.
- On-the-job-learning: You will have the opportunity to work with specialists across medical science, patient care, healthcare management, and technology.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits: We offer medical, dental, vision, life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability coverage.
- Retirement Savings: Our employees can participate in an employer-matching 403(b) Retirement Savings Plan.
- Additional benefits: ECRI offers additional benefits to our employees, including paid time off and holiday pay, paid leave for parents, tuition assistance, employee assistance program, access to LinkedIn Learning, and other voluntary benefit programs (e.g. accident insurance, identify theft insurance, flexible spending accounts).
- Volunteer Program: ECRI Cares, our employee volunteer program, provides a framework for us to work together and make a difference in the lives of others. All employees are provided 16 hours annually of paid time to volunteer at preapproved ECRI Cares charities during normal business hours.
About Ecri
At ECRI, our passion for safe, effective, and efficient care is ingrained into the fabric of who we are and why we are here. For more than 50 years, the people of ECRI have been unyielding in their work to protect patients from unsafe and ineffective medical technologies and practices. Now, with the acquisition of the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), we have created one of the largest healthcare quality and safety entities in the world.
As a non-profit, independent organization, we utilize an unbiased, evidence-based approach to develop guidance, and maintain our principles of integrity and transparent work. Our ethical standards have led us to adopt the industry's strictest conflict-of-interest policies, and they are why tens of thousands of healthcare leaders worldwide rely on ECRI to guide their clinical, operational, and strategic decisions across all sites of care.
The Most Trusted Voice in Healthcare
ECRI Is Proud To Serve The Healthcare Industry, From Providers And Insurers To Government Agencies, And Medical Associations. Our Areas Of Focus Include
- Patient Safety: empowering leaders to eliminate patient harm through the dissemination of best practices, guidance, benchmarking, and recommendations.
- Evidence-Based Medicine: providing clinical evidence to inform and support decisions on the effectiveness of medical technologies, procedures, genetic tests, and clinical practice guidelines.
- Technology Decision Support: arming hospital systems with unbiased insights, so they can optimize their supply chain.
ECRI is the only organization worldwide to conduct independent medical device evaluations, with labs located in North America and Asia Pacific. ECRI is designated an Evidence-based Practice Center by the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and a federally certified Patient Safety Organization by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
At ECRI, our passion for the truth drives us to go further and dig deeper in our pursuit to advance effective, evidence-based healthcare globally.
The success of our organization relies on the kind of creative thinking that can only result from a diverse team of individuals. ECRI is proud to be an employer of choice with an inclusive environment for all employees. As part of this goal and in compliance with various laws and regulations, ECRI provides reasonable accommodation to applicants and employees.
It's what makes ECRI unique, and why we are the most trusted voice in healthcare.
Position Summary
The Research Assistant will support the IHSI horizon scanning team in the production, maintenance, and management of horizon scanning content and systems. Research Assistant will perform research on assigned investigational pharmaceutical topics including background information on the disease indication, pharmaceutical mechanism of action, clinical evidence base, development status, and potential cost. Also write summaries on assigned investigational pharmaceutical topics for comment and review by external stakeholders.
Essential Functions
Reasonable Accommodation Statement:
To accomplish this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform, with or without reasonable accommodation, each essential function satisfactory. Reasonable accommodations may be made to help enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Essential Functions Statement(s)
Research assigned investigational pharmaceutical topics including background information on the disease of interest and the investigational pharmaceutical’s mechanism of action, clinical evidence base, development status, and projected cost.
Collaborate with IHSI horizon scanning Analysts and Science Team lead to define the scope and impact potential of assigned investigational pharmaceutical topics.
Draft topic profiles on assigned investigational pharmaceutical topics for review by the Science Team Lead and external stakeholders.
Apply understanding of European and United States regulatory processes, coverage, and payment to generated content.
Attend and contribute to science team and horizon scanning department meetings as required.
Record minutes for project meetings as required.
Assist the horizon scanning research support team with citations management, as required.
Additional Responsibilities
Other duties as assigned.
Accountability Metric(s)
Timely production of assigned topic profiles
High-quality performance of assigned tasks
Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
Experience
1+ years of relevant job experience preferred.
Fast learner able to perform a variety of research duties in a fast-paced production environment.
Ability to distill technical content into reader friendly information.
Excellent written, verbal, communication, and attention to detail skills.
Education
Bachelor’s degree in a life science, healthcare journalism, healthcare administration, public health, healthcare information systems, biomedical engineering, or biomedical sciences area. Master’s degree preferred.
Computer Skills
Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 Suite of products, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
Experience with Microsoft SharePoint or other content manager systems a plus.
Certifications & Licenses
N/A
This position operates in a remote environment and requires the individual to remain in a stationary position, whether sitting or standing, before a desk or other fixed workspace, most of their workday. In addition, this position requires the individual to occasionally move about their workspace to access and inspect work-related materials, such as file cabinets with physical files and standard office equipment. This position requires the ability to operate standard office equipment, including, but not limited to, a laptop, keyboard, mouse, webcam, and phone, as well as effectively communicate information and ideas to a wide variety of audiences in written and oral form.
ADA STATEMENT
ECRI is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status. We value diversity and believe that a diverse workforce enhances our ability to succeed. ECRI complies with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment based on these protected characteristics.
EEO STATEMENT
ECRI is committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity, or veteran status. We value diversity and believe that a diverse workforce enhances our ability to succeed. ECRI complies with applicable federal, state, and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment based on these protected characteristics.
