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. Candidates who do not meet the required minimum qualifications for the Healthcare Data Analyst III may be considered at a lower level as a Healthcare Data Analyst II*

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:

• 2-3+ years of experience building clinical healthcare data from very large and complex EHR datasets
• 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)

Skills

Critical Thinking; Working Independently; Database Skills

About Geisinger

Founded more than 100 years ago by Abigail Geisinger, the system now includes ten hospital campuses, a 550,000-member health plan, two research centers and the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine. With nearly 24,000 employees and more than 1,700 employed physicians, Geisinger boosts its hometown economies in Pennsylvania by billions of dollars annually. Learn more at geisinger.org or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Geisinger values who you are, where you are from, and where you are going. We seek out people of various backgrounds and cultures with unique abilities, non-traditional career paths and ambitious aspirations. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and Minorities are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status. Read more about Our Commitment to Inclusive Recruiting.

Our Vision & Values

Everything we do is about making better health easier 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.

Our Benefits

We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and prescription coverage.