Data Scientist I, IR Health Systems

Data Scientist I, IR Health Systems

Why UT Southwestern Medical Center?

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Job Summary

Under the direction of our CMIO, Dr. Willett, and Directors of the EMR, Josh Youngblood and Scott Minnerly, this Data Scientist position will have the responsibility of assisting in the implementation of IT strategies related to Population Health, Hospital patient outcomes, and Clinical Decision Support solutions used by UTSW as part of a fast-paced agile team. The strategic position needs an analyst with an aptitude for development, execution of performance metrics, and monitoring for multiple registries for both ambulatory and inpatient operations. These registries will enhance operational processing and productivity with positive effects on the overall patient reported outcomes.

This position focuses on performance improvement for population health, Patient Reported Outcome initiatives, and is vital to ensure we meet our patient engagement strategies. Additionally, this position is responsible for building patient registries, which can be a powerful tool to observe the course of disease; to understand variations in treatment and outcomes; and to examine factors that influence prognosis and quality of life.

Expectations:

• Leverage analytical mindset to synthesize complex data, develop specifications, and define design and testing priorities
• Learn to assist in providing internal and member facing clinical consultation regarding definition, interpretation, and calculation of quality metrics from CMS and other standards organizations
• Develop the ability to support the building of process and patient outcome metrics that reflect best clinical practice for a variety of patient populations and conditions
• Implement and support new technologies and special projects to enhance the analytical/reporting performance and Clinical Decision Support of the department Maintain high standards of data integrity and quality throughout the data enrichment process.
• Communicate with operations team and clients on various initiatives, reports and client specific outcomes

Preferred Experience

• Epic Certified (open to any Epic Certification)
• UML Modeling exposure
• SQL and
• Microsoft Excel and Word knowledge

Experience and Education

• Master's degree in biostatistics or related discipline, or MPH with a concentration in biostatistics.
• Minimum three (3) years experience in statistical consulting with preference given to experience working in biomedical or health care environment.
• Requires working knowledge of SAS, SPSS or other major statistical package (S+, R, etc.) and Microsoft Office (ACCESS and EXCEL)

Job Duties

• Collaborates with investigators to identify problems and provide statistical consultation including design of experiments of survey, analysis of data, interpretation of results and preparation of reports.
• Writes statistical portions of manuscript based on results of analysis and address manuscript revisions based on reviewer's comments.
• Assists client data organizations.
• Performs statistical computations.
• Provides graphical and tabular representations.
• Develops, maintains and modifies programs for in-house use.
• Collaborates with investigators in grant development including statistical design of studies and preparation of statistical portion of grant proposal.
• Performs non-statistical components of consulting such as providing analogous examples and explanations using non-technical terminology and helping researchers formulate and clarify research issues.
• Visits client's work field whenever possible to establish rapport and to become familiar with and interested in client's research and data.
• May supervise biostatistical consultants and/or data entry operators.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

To learn more about the benefits UT Southwestern offers, visit https://www.utsouthwestern.edu/employees/hr-resources/

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