Senior Clinical Data Analyst

Hackensack Meridian Health; Woodbridge Township (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Hackensack Meridian Health in New Jersey is seeking a Senior Clinical Data Analyst to manage the collection, organization and integrity of clinical data for quality measure reporting and clinical service registries. This role serves as the link between quality measures and IT-developed reporting capabilities.

You will collaborate with Epic care pathways, support QA for analytics tools, and ensure data accuracy across the data warehouse while guiding vendors on data submissions.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in health care.

Responsibilities

• Subject Matter Expert for regulatory, public reported and internal HMH quality measures (CMS, TJC).
• Provides measure expertise to IT for data analytics tool development and reporting to ensure measurement methodologies and data dictionaries are reflected accurately.
• Identifies opportunities for performance improvement based on reliable data trending. Makes recommendations based on recognition and analysis of gaps in documentation.
• Provides technical assistance to PSQ clinical teams in measuring what matters and move towards patient reported outcomes (PROM).
• Collaborates with Care pathways in Epic to integrate measures and metrics in those pathways, automating the data abstraction when possible.
• Maintains the quality measure catalog that provides measure details; rules, criteria, definitions, validation, ways that analytics tools can reference/lookup measures.
• Supports IT ensuring Epic data collection and outside data abstraction efforts align in the data warehouse.
• Oversees data uploads (Medisolv) provided by IT and manages access requests to Epic and/or third-party applications for vendor abstractors.

Job description

Overview

Our team members are the heart of what makes us better.

At Hackensack Meridian Health we help our patients live better, healthier lives — and we help one another to succeed. With a culture rooted in connection and collaboration, our employees are team members. Here, competitive benefits are just the beginning. It’s also about how we support one another and how we show up for our community.

Together, we keep getting better - advancing our mission to transform healthcare and serve as a leader of positive change.

The Senior Clinical Data Analyst is responsible for managing the collection, organization and integrity of clinical data required for quality measure reporting and/or clinical service registry reporting. This position acts as a resource and serves as the link between quality measures and public reporting objectives and the core technological capabilities the Information Technology (IT) Team is building across the Hackensack Meridian Health (HMH) network. Responsible for assisting IT on tool development required for quality measure monitoring and reporting internal and external to HMH.

Responsibilities

A day in the life of a Senior Clinical Data Analyst at Hackensack Meridian Health includes:

• Subject Matter Expert for regulatory, public reported and internal HMH quality measures (i.e. CMS, TJC, etc.).
• Provides measure expertise and business insights to IT for data analytics tool development and reporting to ensure measurement methodologies and data dictionaries are reflected accurately.
• Identifies opportunities for performance improvement based on reliable data trending. Makes recommendations based on recognition and analysis of gaps in documentation.
• Provides technical assistance to PSQ clinical teams in measuring what matters and move towards patient reported outcomes (PROM).
• Collaborates with Care pathways in Epic to integrate measures and metrics in those pathways, automating the data abstraction when possible.
• Maintains the quality measure catalog that provides measure details; rules, criteria, definitions, validation, ways that analytics tools can reference/lookup measures.
• Maintains clinical quality measurement knowledge through self-development and keeps current on all specification changes relevant to assigned project(s).
• Supports IT ensuring Epic data collection and outside data abstraction efforts align in the data warehouse.
• Support IT by providing quality assurance for analytics tools utilizing quality measures.
• Ensures the integrity and accuracy of information extracted or collected and entered into the data collection system.
• Assesses potential problems affecting the data collection process and coordinates follow-up of problem resolution with the team and/or manager.
• Learns and understands the varied databases and project related terminology. Participates on all educational sessions and/or webinars.
• Support to PSQ network teams on data submissions to CMS and TJC and manual data abstraction performed by vendors (Q-Centrix).
• Oversight for data uploads (Medisolv) provided by IT.
• Manages access requests to Epic and/or third-party applications for vendor abstractors
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Adheres to HMH Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.

Qualifications

Education, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:

• Minimum of 4 years of experience in health care.