Data Analyst

Department:

34207 Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center - Nursing Staff Development

Status:

Full time

Benefits Eligible:

Yes

Hours Per Week:

40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:

This is an on-site role that will offer some work from home flexibility post orientation. Monday-Friday hospital business hours. Knowledge of Epic highly desirable.

Performs data collection, analysis, and monitoring of data to identify business needs, perform trend calculations, and provide recommendations and consultation which guides decisions.

Major Responsibilities:

• Extracts and manipulates data to perform trend calculations, identify benchmarking opportunities and business needs, and measure process or organizational performance. Extracts patterns from data to transform data into information.
• Analyzes, compiles, researches, and validates data to ensure accuracy and appropriateness of analytics. Presents, displays, and calculates various statistics displaying analysis results. May assist others with data cleansing and more complex statistical analysis.
• Collaborates and consults with leadership and staff to transform the data providing insight and recommendations for business decisions, quality, research, performance, and/or organizational initiatives.
• Facilitates leadership's and staff's interpretation of data by developing narrative and quantitative reports (charts, tables, or graphs) depicting analysis results, recommendations, forecasting, and performance.
• Identifies and implements opportunities for increasing business efficiency by developing new methods for automating or improving data collection, validation, and benchmarking activities.
• May functions as system administrator for the database(s) to audit database functionality and assign and train new users.
• Implements, and maintains database systems based on leadership and end-user specifications to advance departmental/organizational data collection, analysis, and reporting capabilities.
• May manually review or oversee the manual review of medical records or other data sources to supplement programmatically extracted data.
• Ensures data is provided in a manner that is consistent and compliant with applicable laws, regulations, legal agreements, policies and procedure, and/or other standards.

Licensure, Registration, and/or Certification Required:

• None Required.

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree in Finance or related field.

Experience Required:

• Typically requires 3 years of experience in data management or analysis which includes experiences in extracting, analyzing, and manipulating data to provide consultation, and identify trends and business opportunities.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Required:

• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office Suite or similar products. Experience with relational databases as well as other data management systems. Knowledge of Epic is highly desired.
• Ability to perform complex reporting, including demonstrated skill in composing logical, detailed, and analytical reports that support planning and decision making.
• Skills in understanding abstract concepts and in translating those concepts into an analytics to depict data or support business needs.
• Knowledge of basic statistics and data presentation to summarize and present data accurately reflecting and conveying meaning.
• Skills in creating benchmarking analysis and identify process improvement opportunities.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to display and communicate information to all levels of employees, management, and other organizations.
• Thorough understanding of data points within data sources and the advantages and disadvantages.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

• Operates all equipment necessary to performing the job.
• Exposed to a normal office environment.
• Must be able to sit for long periods of time.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

About Advocate Health 

Advocate Health is the third-largest nonprofit, integrated health system in the United States, created from the combination of Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health. Providing care under the names Advocate Health Care in Illinois; Atrium Health in the Carolinas, Georgia and Alabama; and Aurora Health Care in Wisconsin, Advocate Health is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Advocate Health services nearly 6 million patients and is engaged in hundreds of clinical trials and research studies, with Wake Forest University School of Medicine serving as the academic core of the enterprise. It is nationally recognized for its expertise in cardiology, neurosciences, oncology, pediatrics and rehabilitation, as well as organ transplants, burn treatments and specialized musculoskeletal programs. Advocate Health employs 155,000 teammates across 69 hospitals and over 1,000 care locations, and offers one of the nation’s largest graduate medical education programs with over 2,000 residents and fellows across more than 200 programs. Committed to providing equitable care for all, Advocate Health provides more than $6 billion in annual community benefits.