Health Informatics Director jobs in Minnesota

HealthPartners is currently hiring for an Epic Health Informatics Analyst. The analyst is responsible for driving the adoption and use of data and analytic services and products to positively impact the health, costs, and experiences, or our patients and members. It works within collaborative scrum teams consisting of developers, data scientists, and data engineers. The analyst maintains a working knowledge of business domains and its associated data and provides visualization, analysis, validation, and consultation services to clinical and operational stakeholders. In collaboration with others, the analyst builds scalable solutions to extract knowledge from data and delivers that knowledge to key decision makers.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, mathematics, business, computer science, data or social science, operations research, statistics, or a related quantitative field. Alternate experience and education in equivalent areas is acceptable.
• One year experience using data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, etc.
• Must have the ability to tell stories using data.
• Basic knowledge of SQL and relational database design
• Familiarity with Python, R, etc. (“or similar”)
• Working knowledge or training using technical and analytical skills to extract, integrate, layout and interpret complex and disparate data sources.
• Demonstrated ability to present findings and actionable recommendations.
• Must be motivated, self-driven, curious, and creative.
• Ability to communicate and work with development teams, end users and business partners.
• Demonstrated ability to support and complement the work of a diverse development and / or operations team.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Epic Clarity
• Knowledge of health care operations
• Exposure to agile/scrum (including tools like JIRA)
• Knowledge of programming skills using Python, R, etc. (“or similar”)
• Willingness to learn medical terminology, medical coding systems; ICD-10, CPT4, DRG, GPI.
• Familiarity with software development, data, and integration architecture

Hours/Location:

• M-F; Days
• May work remotely but will prefer local applicants for occasional onsite needs.

Accountabilities:

• All team members must champion and model our values of partnership, curiosity, compassion, integrity, and excellence, and must contribute to a culture of continuous learning.
• Partners with domain experts, business groups, and data engineers to frame problems, model, clean and integrate data, and determine the best way to leverage that data in service of a goal.
• Works with business partners to understand and create their “user stories;” they support opportunities to leverage data analytics in service of customer or business value.
• Partners with other analysts to create, deploy, monitor, and maintain highly interactive data visualizations.
• Participates in strategic measurement activities, including Return on Investment (ROI) analyses, Key Performance Indicator (KPI) development, risk assessment and indexing, as well as domain-specific measurements (example: readmission rates)
• Works with their teams to ensure data accessibility, accuracy, and quality.
• May provide consultative, data-driven support on product and business strategy development.
• Executes test cases to validate that analytic and software solutions meet the business acceptance criteria.
• Data analysts leverage internal and external sources to validate data accuracy and benchmark results.
• Promotes and champions our security and de-identification standards, while they manage sensitive administrative data (medical and pharmacy claims, clinical data, and other sensitive organizational data assets).