Healthcare Data Analyst III (Remote capable)

Location: Work from home (Pennsylvania) Shift: Days (United States of America) Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 Worker Type: Regular Exemption Status: Yes Job Summary: Uses data expertise, programing abilities, and critical thinking skills to provide analytic expertise, deliver innovative solutions, and act as a strategic thought partner. Responsible for supporting investigator driven research from inception to closeout by providing feedback on study design, data collection strategies, effort estimation, analytic strategies, and stewardship. Develops code to deliver high quality data products on time to customers. Mentors junior staff by offering project feedback and code review. Works with research staff to determine goals, priorities, and decision making. Participates on high visibility projects for both internal and external clients. Leads efforts to assess, recommend, implement, troubleshoot, validate, and interpret results. Experience in developing programs using large relational database models written in SQL and/or SAS required. Experience using data from an electronic health record or health care claims in the area of health research or healthcare analytics (preference for Epic's Clarity models) required. Job Duties:

• Performs complex data extraction, manipulation, and summarization of large databases to create analytical datasets and provides a range of solutions to support Research activities.
• Takes lead role in the design, testing, validation, analysis and merging of complicated data structures from a wide variety of source systems.
• Highly effective in written and oral communication of complex, analytical, technical information, results/recommendations to research project team.
• Able to create summarized findings and recommendations that are clearly presented and adapted for audiences that have a varying range of technical and clinical experience.
• Actively engages and takes lead role in the development of complex phenotype algorithms and increasingly significant tasks.
• Acts as a strategic partner for investigators to identify key areas and priorities based on analytic insights and data analysis.
• Utilizes extensive knowledge of research methodology and research data collection to drive discussions with clients and the team.
• Leads discussions that proactively educate the requester of any complexities associated with the data request.
• Oversees, leads and consults on all phases of SAS/SQL/analytical programming, data management, quality control, and reporting.
• Expert ability to identify and resolve problems using knowledge, background and troubleshooting skills.
• Leads efforts to ensure accuracy, data integrity and validity of data and analysis in all work.

Work is typically performed in an office or remote environment. Accountable for satisfying all job specific obligations and complying with all organization policies and procedures. The specific statements in this profile are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.

• Relevant experience may be a combination of related work experience and/or Master's degree obtained (Master's Degree = 2 years relevant experience).

Position Details: Highly Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience building clinical healthcare data from very large and complex EHR datasets
• Experience with Epic Clarity
• At least 5 years of SQL or SAS programming experience with SQL being highly preferred

Education: Bachelor's Degree- (Required) Experience: Minimum of 5 years-Relevant experience* (Required) Certification(s) and License(s): Skills: Critical Thinking, Database Skills, Working Independently OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities.

• KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves.
• EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence.
• LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow.
• INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
• SAFETY: We provide a safe environment for our patients and members and the Geisinger family.

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners. Perhaps just as important, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. We know that a diverse workforce with unique experiences and backgrounds makes our team stronger. Our patients, members and community come from a wide variety of backgrounds, and it takes a diverse workforce to make better health easier for all. We are proud to be an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or status as a protected veteran. Apply Job!