What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Scientist position at Steward Health Care?
About Steward Health Care
Nearly a decade ago, Steward Health Care System emerged as a different kind of health care company designed to usher in a new era of wellness. One that provides our patients better, more proactive care at a sustainable cost, our providers unrivaled coordination of care, and our communities greater prosperity and stability.
As the country’s largest physician-led, tax paying, integrated health care system, our doctors can be certain that we share their interests and those of their patients. Together we are on a mission to revolutionize the way health care is delivered - creating healthier lives, thriving communities and a better world.
Steward is among the nation’s largest and most successful accountable care organizations (ACO), with more than 5,500 providers and 43,000 health care professionals who care for 12.3 million patients a year through a closely integrated network of hospitals, multispecialty medical groups, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities and behavioral health centers.
Based in Dallas, Steward currently operates 39 hospitals across Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Utah.
For more information, visit www.steward.org.
Steward Health Care Network (SHCN) takes pride in its community-based care model, which drives value-added tools and services to our communities, patients, physicians, and hospitals across the continuum of care. In addition, Steward Health Care Network promotes care coordination and collaboration within the network in order to provide high-quality, efficient care to patients. With Steward in the community, all residents can be sure that there is a world-class doctor close to where they live.
The network is also responsible for the implementation and execution of our managed care contracts, medical management services, quality improvement programs, data analysis, and information services.
Position Purpose: The Analytics and Data Science group is required to analyze and build models to make sense of large datasets resulting from claims, Practices (EHR), Hospitals, Care Management, ADT, and Patient Surveys. This will combine domain knowledge and programming expertise with statistical and machine learning skills to build scalable models and solutions that help drive timely and more accurate business decisions on patient engagement and patient care.
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- Work with large, complex data sets. Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems, handling data challenges from a real-world setting.
- Develop quality control and pre-processing tools for a broad range of digital and clinical data types.
- Iterate on, engineer key features, and build new statistical and machine learning models relating measured features to clinical endpoints.
- Communicate highly technical results and methods clearly, as well as interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of people and teams.
- Work cross functionally with teams to develop and productionize models for risk stratification, patient engagement and clinical care coordination for optimal care and provider performance.
- Work closely with business teams, software engineers and Business Intelligence (BI) developers to deliver end user products.
- Other duties as assigned based on business need
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This position is subject to the COVID-19 Vaccination Policy for Steward Health Care Workforce. Employees in this position will be required to provide adequate proof of vaccination for COVID-19 by an FDA-approved vaccine prior to starting work. Steward will consider requests for exemptions from this vaccine requirement on the basis of medical condition or sincerely held religious belief in accordance with applicable Federal laws.
Steward Health Care is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. Steward Health Care does not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.
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Steward Health Care is proud to be a minority, physician owned organization. Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging are at the foundation of the care we provide, the community services we support and all our employment practices. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, and or expression or any other non-job-related characteristic.