Health Equity Analyst
USA, Remote
$63,100 - $105,000
Job Description
Our company is a ~$4B system whose mission is to provide Exceptional Care without Exception. The Health System includes a tertiary academic medical center, a network of community Health centers, a Health plan and an affiliated accountable care organization.
We have recently launched BMC’s “Health Equity Accelerator” with the purpose of ‘transforming Healthcare to deliver Health justice and well-being’. The Accelerator is developing an innovative multi-disciplinary approach to address inequities. As part of this approach, the Accelerator is working on a comprehensive program to further advance our commitment to improving healthcare by holistically addressing all patient needs, including social determinants of health, mental health, addiction, and physical health. We are also committed to doing so in a way that closes any racial disparities in healthcare outcomes. In addition, we are continuing to invest in our analytic/data science capabilities to apply to healthcare challenges facing our System. We are looking for a Senior Analyst who can support this goal by working with clinical departments at BMC to identify health disparities and monitor/evaluate quality improvement efforts to reduce them.
Key projects may include: How have racial disparities in pregnancy outcomes trended over time since the launch of new initiatives? Are there disparities in the rates of high-risk diabetes patients receiving recommended care? What is the expected impact of certain social determinant of health interventions?
The Analyst will report to the Population Health Analytics team and will play a key role in the Accelerator leading analyses that will guide strategy, investigate performance drivers, and drive innovation that will improve the overall health of our patients. This role is ideal for analysts who have built a strong technical and analytic foundation, and who are looking to grow capabilities in strategic thinking, project management, stakeholder management, and presenting.
Position: Health Equity Analyst
Department: System Analytics
Schedule: Full Time
Key Responsibilities:
· Work independently with business leaders in the Health Equity team to scope and conduct analyses that help the organization understand and monitor performance, break down key drivers, and identify new opportunities
· Guide clinical and business teams through metric development to ensure conducted analyses help answer the question at hand
· Develop technical solutions to workflow-issues such as the utilization of data-collection tools and the development of worklists
· Lead analytic projects such as segmenting our patients by health and social needs or data validation workstreams
· Act as technical and analytic expert for the Health Equity team
· Create reports and dashboards that effectively communicate performance to operational and clinical leaders and stakeholders
· Translate complex analysis into simple visualizations that can communicate key takeaways to leaders and stakeholders
· Understand health system data sources and support data architecture team to ensure that data is clean, normalized, and accurate
· Establish credibility and trust in data integrity and accuracy across internal and external stakeholders
· Present analyses to senior leaders and multiple stakeholders
· Collaborate across the health system to ensure that assumptions and methodologies are consistent
· Manage multiple projects and analyses simultaneously while meeting key deadlines and deliverables, and prioritizing time and resources
· Identify and elevate key obstacles for intervention that may jeopardize timelines
(The above statements in this job description are intended to depict the general nature and level of work assigned to the employee(s) in this job. The above is not intended to represent an exhaustive list of accountable duties and responsibilities required).
EDUCATION:
· Bachelor’s degree, preference for concentration in economics, math, physics, computer science, data science
· Master’s degree in a related field (Economics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Social Science, Public Health), preferred
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS REQUIRED:
None.
EXPERIENCE:
· Two to four years of data analytics experience with progressive responsibility, working with large data sets to answer important clinical, operational, or business questions
· Preference for experience working with healthcare data, including claims and electronic medical records
· Experience working with data from Epic preferred; Clarity certification a plus
· Prior Quality Improvement experience a plus.
· Ability to query internal and external data sources using SQL required. Experience with Python or R a plus.
· Ability to create digestible reports using Excel or Business Intelligence software required. Experience with Tableau a plus.
The Ideal Candidate:
We are seeking a top performing senior analyst to help us build a high performing analytic team that will find answers to difficult question across large and complex data sets.
The ideal candidate will be:
· Technically proficient: Capable of extracting data, manipulating large data sets, cleaning and normalizing data, generating analysis and working through challenges independently
· Strong analytic thinking: Effective at identifying the critical question, capable of navigating the trade-offs between accuracy / comprehensiveness / complexity vs. speed and simplicity, able to make independent decisions on how to adjust assumptions and analyses, can distill complex analysis into simple charts to communicate key takeaways
· Interest in building up advanced modelling / data science skills to proactively identify opportunities and possible solutions
· Curious and creative: Capable of finding the right analytic approach, always asking questions and testing the data and analysis to ensure that we are answering the right key questions
· Outcomes-focused: Ability to manage multiple high priority projects simultaneously and prioritize to meet key projects
· Passionate about our mission: Highest level of integrity and respect for colleagues and for our mission to provide Exceptional Care Without Exception to our patients and members