Humana's Clinical Analytics Team is seeking a Research Scientist 2 to identify opportunities and build solutions to improve clinical outcomes and lower costs for millions of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries by leveraging data science & analytics, clinical expertise, strategic mindset, and rigorous study designs. The role will focus on optimizing healthcare delivery, lowering medical costs, and improving member health outcomes, especially for underserved populations, using high volumes of structured and unstructured data.
Requirements
- Proficient in manipulating and analyzing data with at least one of the programming languages such as Python, R, SAS
- Experience working with big data and using PySpark, Spark R or Spark Scala
- Experience with causal inference and causal machine learning techniques, and/or advanced machine learning algorithms such as deep learning, NLP, recommender system, network analysis.
- Master's Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Economics, Statistics, Clinical Informatics, Mathematics, Data Science, Data Analysis and/or related fields
- 1-3 years of experience in applying mathematics, statistics, epidemiologic or econometric principals to transform high volumes of complex data into actionable insights
- Experience working with medical, pharmacy, lab claims
Responsibilities
- Research, prototype and scale new ideas to improve population health and healthcare delivery
- Leverage a wide range of analytics methods ranging from descriptive to prescriptive to transform high volumes of complex data into analytics solutions and actional insights
- Collaborate with clinicians and clinical informaticists to define various clinical concepts and extract clinical information from medical, pharmacy, and lab claims for analytics and modeling purposes
- Translate analytic results into key takeaways and make recommendations to business partners
- Apply mathematical, statistical, epidemiologic and data science methods to optimize healthcare delivery, lower medical cost while improve member health outcomes
- Partner with stakeholders across the enterprise to identify, prioritize and measure the impact of core and novel solutions to significant problems in healthcare and improve the health of especially underserved population, using high volumes of structured and unstructured data.
Other
- Collaborate with analytic and business teams to set objectives, approaches, and work plans
- Collaborate with strategy to evaluate existing programs and identify and measure new solutions to impact healthcare
- Understands department, segment, and organizational strategy and operating objectives, and translate the strategy to work priorities
- Make decisions regarding own work methods, occasionally in ambiguous situations with general guidance
- Demonstrated strong interest in healthcare and desire to make a positive impact on population health
- Flexible, dynamic personality who can work independently and collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary team
- Clear and concise oral and written communication skills, with a proven ability to translate complex methodologies and analytical results to higher-level business insights and key takeaways
- Occasional travel to Humana's offices for training or meetings may be required.
