Clinical Data Analyst

Clinical Data Analyst

Overview

Date Posted: 3/3/2025
Job Code: Analyst I
Location: MLKCH
Address: 1680 E. 120th Street
City: Los Angeles
State: CA
Country: United States of America

Description

POSITION SUMMARY

The Clinical Data Analyst (CDA) will serve an instrumental role in the Office of Quality and Performance Improvement at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Hospital.  The CDA will provide consultative and technical services for identifying, extracting, and integrating clinical data from internal and/or external data sources to support quality improvement and patient safety initiatives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Trend data to identify potential opportunities (e.g., variances, significant outliers, percentile ranked groups) for quality improvement, internal and external reporting, or focused investigations.
• Design data analysis strategies to identify potential areas for quality improvement or focused investigation.
• Develop epidemiological sound indicators of the quality of care.
• Analyze data and summarize into quality indicator values.
• Identify external benchmarks of care for comparative purposes.
• Develop tabular and graphical presentations of data which clearly and concisely illustrate current levels of care.
• Develop comprehensive data dashboards to illustrate hospital, department, and provider performance on key performance indicators and measures.
• Write draft reports which clearly and concisely display current levels of care.
• Contribute to the development of interventions (i.e., develop educational materials for doctors and nurses), which will improve healthcare processes and outcomes.
• Design re-measurement strategies (after interventions) of healthcare processes and outcomes to effectively quantify the impact of interventions for improvement.
• Analyze re-measurement data and summarize into quality indicator values.
• Assist in the preparation of draft manuscripts for publishing in peer reviewed journals.

Minimum Requirements

POSITION REQUIREMENTS

A.   Education

• Bachelor's degree (BA or BS) required, Master’s degree preferred in Statistics, Biostatistics, Epidemiology, Public Health or related discipline (e.g., Economics, Mathematics, Computer Science).

B.  Qualifications/Experience

• Minimum of two years of hands-on SAS, STATA, SQL or other statistical programming work experience or demonstrated equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least one year experience with health-related analytic research and quality improvement methodology preferred.
• Fluency in SAS, STATA, SQL, or other statistical programming software and MS Office.
• Ability to work independently and in teams.
• Knowledge of statistical or epidemiological methodologies, and automation techniques for analytic tasks.
• Ability to work with highly sensitive information while preserving the confidentiality of the information.
• Working knowledge of health systems, Medicare/Medicaid preferred, healthcare databases and coding systems.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Able to perform a variety of tasks requiring independent thought and research.  Creativity and latitude is required.

C.   Special Skills/Knowledge

• Excellent communication skills and evidence of collaborative practice.  History of successful analytic processes and outcomes.Expertise in healthcare delivery systems and performance improvement is highly preferred.  Ability to collaborate in a team environment and produce positive outcomes.

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