Analyst

Lowell Community Health Center (Lowell CHC) is a diverse, community-based health care organization. Our programs have been recognized as national models and LCHC was named one of the top five health centers in the nation for excellence in cultural competency. With a career at Lowell Community Health Center, you will be joining a dynamic team of passionate and talented people.

Job Summary

The Data Analyst will report to the Analytics Manager and be a member of the Analytics Team. This person will provide on-going analyses and support of business or clinical initiatives and programs and to assess quality, service, and performance. This person will produce, distribute, and monitor regularly scheduled and ad-hoc reports. This person will be providing analysis of business and clinical data to produce decision support information. Most importantly the data and reports will support improved service, financial, and clinical outcomes.

The Data Analyst serves as a team member on complex data analysis projects that can be multi-disciplinary or interdepartmental. The Data Analyst will need to work closely with departments (clinical and non-clinical) to achieve departmental and organizational success. They will effectively and openly communicate with multi-disciplinary teams and other health care professionals and will maintain a collaborative work relationship with peers to create a positive work environment in accordance with Lowell CHC’s core values.

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Essential Duties and Responsibilities

General

• Use SQL in a collaborative codebase environment to write reports based on data from our electronic health record (EHR) system.
• Understand programs and evaluate EHR documentation to assess areas for improvement in patient level and clinical level data documentation and reporting.
• Document your reports to meet internal documentation standards.
• Analyze data to identify trends and communicate findings to internal and external stakeholders.
• Analyze clinical, financial, and quality data sets and interpret the clinical and quality significance for business intelligence and other operational and strategic decision-making.
• Review reports for quality and accuracy including working with technical staff on data validation activities.
• Provide in-depth critical thinking in the QA process of your colleagues' reports.
• Contribute to the building of institutional knowledge by documenting technical rules unique to our organization in the knowledge base.
• Design technical specifications for new reports. Modify existing reports as necessary. Validate new reports.
• Represent the organization at external and internal meetings and events as needed.
• Keep abreast of professional information and technology through workshops and conferences.
• Produces high quality work presentable to executive teams and board members.
• Has the ability to understand program/project requirements and execute on the deliverables independently
  with limited supervision. Can update appropriately to all parties as progress on the deliverables is made.
• Is able to understand the equity-focused vision of our organization and how this relates to the presentation of data.

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Staff Management

• No staff management responsibilities.

Clinical and Patient Service

• No direct patient care responsibilities.