Healthcare Data Analyst III (Remote Capable)

Geisinger is a healthcare organization that is seeking a Healthcare Data Analyst III to provide analytic expertise and innovative solutions. The role involves supporting research activities, developing high-quality data products, and mentoring junior staff while leading discussions with investigators to drive data analysis and insights.

Responsibilities:

• 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

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree-Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Science (Required)
• Minimum of 5 years-Relevant experience (Required)
• 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
• 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