Verda Health Plan of Texas needs an Informatics Analyst to manage and organize healthcare data, analyze trends, and provide insights to inform decision-making, improve healthcare quality, and reduce costs.
Requirements
- 2-3+ years’ experience relational databases, and/or common Microsoft data analytics tools (i.e. – PowerBI, SSRS,etc) to develop data visualizations and dashboards
- 2+ years’ experience with data analysis to analyze and provide data trend reporting to senior leaders
- Experience with relational databases and common commercial analytics tools and other data visualization techniques
- Experience in SQL and/or T-SQL use for queries, stored procedures and functions.
- Knowledge of medical terminology, including ICD-10, CPT and HCPCS.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
- Proficient in Microsoft Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Project, Outlook, Word, Visio, etc.)
Responsibilities
- Develop and implement clinical decision support tools and analytics that assist Verda leadership in making evidence-based decisions, producing clinical guidelines, and evolving best practices.
- Develop and implement analytical trending reports to uncover patterns and communicate that information to suggest improvements.
- Build data models that support analytical and decision support efforts by collecting and integrating data from disparate internal and external sources.
- Based upon data analysis, recommend ways to increase healthcare quality or reduce health plan costs.
- Create queries, visualizations, algorithms, and reports.
- Collecting and integrating data from disparate sources.
- Analyzing data to uncover trends and patterns.
Other
- Bachelor's degree preferred in Healthcare Informatics, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field
- Healthcare analytics certifications such as Certified Health Data Analyst (CHDA) or Certified Professional in Healthcare Information and Management Systems (CPHIMS) or equivalent preferred
- Cross-functional collaboration across multiple lines of businesses
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks, promote teamwork and fact-based decision making
- Critical listening, problem solving, and communication skills
