Health Data Analyst

Develop data products and deliver insights that drive safer, more equitable health care for thousands of people across the United States. Health Quality Innovators (HQI) is seeking a rising professional with strong foundational knowledge and skills to join our growing analytic team.

The Health Data Analyst writes and runs programs to analyze and export data from government sources that include Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) and Medicare advantage claims, nursing home resident assessments and healthcare-associated infection databases. Other sources include beneficiary demographic, public health and electronic health record data files. In addition, you will query our Microsoft Dataverse platform and use business intelligence software to generate reports and dashboards at the individual provider, state and regional levels.

These analyses and reports help HQI’s quality improvement teams target geographic areas, patient populations and health care providers to engage in improvement initiatives, assess baseline performance on clinical quality measures for conditions like high blood pressure and patient harms like falls, identify and address health disparities, test the impact of improvement activities and measure progress over time.

As a Health Data Analyst, you will work with quality improvement teams to develop data collection tools, create surveys and other assessments, conduct root cause analyses and support programmatic evaluations. You will come to play an important role as an internal advisor who ensures the design of HQI improvement initiatives, selection and modification of interventions, and conclusions about performance are based on solid data and sound interpretation.

This is a terrific opportunity to enter or expand your familiarity with the rapidly expanding field of healthcare analytics. You will have the benefit of learning from experienced colleagues and working within rapid, responsive cloud-based IT systems. Since this is a fully remote position, you will enjoy the flexibility that comes with working from home.

About Health Quality Innovators (HQI)

HQI is a non-profit health care quality consulting organization that has improved care delivery, patient safety and outcomes for millions of people since 1984. Many of our services are funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and other federal health agencies. We work with hospitals, nursing homes, practices, public health agencies, community groups, stakeholder organizations, patients and family members that want to make sustainable change.

Our team members are energized by opportunities to reduce avoidable harms, improve population health, make health care more equitable, and align technology with care delivery.

The HQI culture values creativity, teamwork and integrity as essential elements of producing excellent work. We believe in the importance of work/life balance and actively support professional growth and our local community. HQI offers a friendly, respectful and collaborative work environment that allows team members to bring their real selves to work every day.

· Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, statistics, epidemiology, biostatistics, data science or related field with two or more years’ work experience or an equivalent combination of education and/or experience (such as a master’s degree with work-study or internship experience).

· Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including the ability to write and troubleshoot complex and nested functions, build dynamic analyses and reports from a structured dataset. Experience programming in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) is not required but is highly desirable.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office products, including Outlook, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint and Dynamics 365. Experience using Microsoft PowerBI, AWS QuickSight or Tableau to analyze a structured dataset and create an automated dashboard is also required. Experience programming in SAS, SQL, Python and/or R is not required but is highly desirable.

· Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to convey analytical concepts and findings to both lay and expert audiences.

· Excellent interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to be a productive remote worker, manage competing priorities, and educate and advise internal teams.

Competitive salary and attractive benefit package with monthly technology allowance and generous tuition reimbursement and 401(k) matching programs. We are a drug free workplace and M/F Disabled and Vet/EEO/AA Employer. Go to www.HQI.solutions/careers to apply