Quality Analyst Senior

Tucson Medical Center; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 76,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Tucson Medical Center is seeking a Senior Quality Analyst to apply advanced data analysis to clinical and ancillary operations. You will convert data into insight, guiding actionable decisions and supporting registries and quality reporting.

Responsibilities include designing data collection tools, performing statistical analyses, and collaborating with IT and BI teams to present metrics and dashboards. Five years of data analysis experience in healthcare is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of experience and education.
• Five (5) years of data collection, analysis, and database management experience.
• Knowledge of quantitative techniques such as analytic statistics (statistical process control) and enumerative statistics.
• Skill in analytical software such as Microsoft Excel, Access, Minitab, etc.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret reference materials like clinical documents, technical journals, and financial reports.
• Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations or write reports that conform to prescribed style and format.

Responsibilities

• Supports organizational strategic initiatives, registries and required quality reporting through data analysis and report specification interpretation.
• Conducts studies and uses quantitative techniques such as analytic statistics and enumerative statistics to data sets to produce meaningful analysis.
• Evaluates issues and concerns providing critical thinking, and problem analysis to provide solutions.
• Designs data collection instruments, recommends method for collection and estimates sample sizes.
• Applies qualitative techniques such as affinity diagrams, priority matrices, and survey instruments.
• Researches benchmarking sources.
• Analyzes and compares hospital operational and clinical processes.
• Utilizes clinical and operations data sources, and accesses and extracts data for analysis.
• Designs, creates, and maintains databases; works with IT to ensure correct data files in appropriate formats.
• Collaborates with Business Intelligence team to support a variety of quality and safety metrics displays.
• Advises clinical leaders on data collection and measurement methods.

Skills

Data presentation

Analytical thinking

Critical thinking

Problem analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Excel

Access

Minitab

Job description

Quality Analyst Senior

Job Category: Allied Health

Schedule: Full time

Shift: 1 - Day Shift

SUMMARY:

Provides technical expertise and direction in the application of data analysis methodologies to enhance clinical and ancillary operations. Ability to turn data into information, information into insight, and insight into actionable decisions.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Supports organizational strategic initiatives, registries and required quality reporting through data analysis and report specification interpretation.
• Conducts studies and uses quantitative techniques such as analytic statistics (statistical process control) and enumerative statistics to data sets in order to produce meaningful analysis.
• Evaluates issues and concerns providing critical thinking, and problem analysis, sees patterns, makes analogies and thinks systemically to provide solutions.
• Designs data collection instruments, recommends method for collection and estimates sample sizes.
• Applies qualitative techniques such as affinity diagrams, priority matrices, and survey instruments.
• Researches benchmarking sources.
• Analyzes and compares hospital operational and clinical processes.
• Utilizes clinical and operations data sources, and accesses and extracts data for analysis.
• Designs, creates, and maintains databases. Works collaboratively with IT to ensure correct data files in appropriate formats are produced for the variety of clinical databases and registries used by TMC.
• Collaborates with Business Intelligence team to support a variety of quality and safety metrics displays including reports, presentations, scorecards, etc.
• Advises clinical leaders on data collection and measurement methods (chart review, observation, report generation, etc.).
• Adheres to and supports team members in exhibiting TMCH values of integrity, community, compassion, and dedication.
• Adheres to TMC organizational and department-specific safety, confidentiality, values, policies and standards.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION: Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of experience and education.

EXPERIENCE: Five (5) years of data collection, analysis, and database management experience.

LICENSURE OR CERTIFICATION: None required.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Skill in presenting complex data in a meaningful manner.
• Knowledge of quantitative techniques such as analytic statistics (statistical process control) and enumerative statistics to data sets.
• Skill in analytical software such as Microsoft EXCEL, ACCESS, MINITAB, etc.
• Skill in critical thinking and problem analysis to determine patterns and analogies, and using systems thinking to provide solutions
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret reference materials like clinical documents, technical journals, and financial reports.
• Ability to make effective and persuasive presentations or write reports that conform to prescribed style and format.
• Ability to apply analytical techniques to evaluate and assist in metric reporting, may involve advanced mathematical concepts such as exponents or logarithms, frequency distribution, sampling theory and factor analysis.
• Ability to apply mathematical operation to such tasks as frequency distribution, single or multiple regressions, correlation techniques, and sampling theory.
• Ability to apply principles of critical thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism (formulas, equations, graphs, etc.).
• Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and concrete variables.