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1. Manage all aspects of clinical quality data of focus and meet established deadlines, inclusive of data collection, data analysis and interpretation, data submission, daily quality reporting issues, and outcomes report review.
2. Utilize the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and any other appropriate resources to obtain valid, reliable data for developing dashboards and scorecards.
3. Perform data collection, data entry, abstraction, validation, and analysis.
4. Prepare and submit timely quarterly data harvests to appropriate data warehouses.
5. Interpret and translate data for senior management to clearly understand analysis and use it for meaningful decision making, and strategic planning purposes.
6. Assume facilitation role with clinical service line and quality teams to identify and verify patients for inclusion, identify and verify criteria and protocols for inclusion/exclusion, obtain clinical interpretation of data elements, and to support clinical improvement initiatives.
7. Manages entire process of clinical care pathways which includes research, scheduling and attending meetings with multidisciplinary teams, data collection, submission, validation, and audit.
8. Close collaboration with providers, clinicians, and other professionals to ensure compliance with documentation
9. Work with other team members of Quality Data and Analytics Team and Clinical IT Teams to incorporate clinical data into the Electronic Health Record and develop/ validate reports.
10. Run queries/ analyses from databases for hospital, service lines and physician-level performance analytics.
11. Use clinical databases and national benchmarking to continuously identify opportunities for improved outcomes and cost reductions, and relay findings and recommendations to appropriate decision maker.
12. Facilitate the timely reporting of care transformation data and initiatives to all key stakeholders
13. Create customized and recurrent reports and dashboards.
14. Assist with development and evaluation of internal and external data audits.
15. Evaluate and analyze opportunities to merge data elements from various electronic medical record sources.
16. Adhere to data definitions as it pertains to specified criteria and specifications.
17. Assist quality team members in developing, reviewing and interpreting data.
18. Participate in annual meetings and conferences.
19. Complete data abstraction training programs.
20. Prepare reports for review with department leaders that analyze physician.
21. Monitor quality performance, outcomes and/or safety metrics to make recommendations for targeted process improvement projects.
22. Prepare briefings and reports.
23. Follow up and follow through on assigned action items for various projects, meetings, and committees.
24. Solve data integrity issues as they arise, and monitor the addition of new data, analytics and reporting systems.

This list of duties and responsibilities is not intended to be all-inclusive and may expand to include other duties or responsibilities as necessary.

Education:
Minimum Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Management, Nursing, Health Sciences, or related field.

Experience:
• Minimum 3 years' experience with databases, data manipulation, data validation, analysis, creating dashboards to track performance. Healthcare background and quality improvement experience preferred.
• Required experience supporting clinical quality or process improvement initiatives in a hospital or clinical setting.
• Advanced proficiency with creating complex and advanced formulas in Excel and data manipulation.
• Knowledge of EPIC as well as their respective report writer tools.
• Knowledge of SQL.
• Knowledge of healthcare quality and outcomes measurement and reporting.
• Knowledge of USNWR methodology and criteria a plus.
• Knowledge of Vizient Clinical Data base tool a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Demonstrated knowledge of medical terminology and understanding of cardiovascular related diseases.
• Experience with clinical database systems and decision support tools including and understanding of medical terminology and clinical coding protocols.

Knowledge, Skills and Attitudes:

• Ability to maintain effective interpersonal relationships
• Ability to communicate effectively in both oral and written form
• Skill in collecting, organizing and analyzing data
• Proficiency in computer software (i.e. Microsoft Office)
• Ability to work independently and/or in a collaborative environment

The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.

Job Status:
Full time

Employee Type:
Staff