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Responsible for managing clinical quality database to support Quality Data Processes and strategic patient safety and clinical quality initiatives for UHealth.
Perform data abstraction, validation, and analysis. Create, maintain, and enhance dashboards in Power BI to visualize outcomes for departments.
Ensure an effective feedback loops for continuous performance improvement focused on multiple service lines’ performance improvement.
The incumbent will lead the design, planning, and production of dashboards and analysis to support clinical excellence, and quality improvement initiatives.
Establish and maintain collaborative working relationships with service line teams, hospital leadership, and quality leadership to effectively facilitate appropriate data management, timely and accurate reporting of data and outcomes, accurate benchmarking of outcome initiatives, and ability to provide immediate feedback for assigned quality initiatives.
Responsible to ensure all work products are compliant with national recognized patient care processes and clinical outcomes.
Ability to function well under timeline commitments.
The ideal candidate is a seasoned Power BI expert and quality analyst that has successfully worked with clinicians in a hospital or clinical setting.
Excellent presentation skills, excellent attention to detail, clear articulate communications skills, ability to receive feedback constructively, and demonstrated ability to engage clinical decision makers on performance improvement opportunities.
Manage all aspects of clinical quality data of focus and meet established deadlines, inclusive of data collection, data analysis and interpretation, data submission, daily quality reporting issues, and outcomes report review.
Utilize the Electronic Health Record (EHR) and any other appropriate resources to obtain valid, reliable data for entry into the registry.
Perform data collection, data entry, abstraction, validation, and analysis.
Prepare and submit timely quarterly data harvests to appropriate data warehouses.
Interpret and translate data for senior management to clearly understand analysis and use it for meaningful decision making, and strategic planning purposes.
Assume facilitation role with clinical service line and quality teams to identify and verify patients for inclusion, identify and verify criteria and protocols for inclusion / exclusion, obtain clinical interpretation of data elements, and to support clinical improvement initiatives.
Close collaboration with providers, clinicians, and other professionals to ensure compliance with documentation
Work with other team members of Quality Data and Analytics Team and Clinical IT Teams to incorporate clinical data into the Electronic Health Record and develop / validate reports.
Run queries / analyses from databases for hospital and physician-level performance analytics.
Use clinical databases and national benchmarking to continuously identify opportunities for improved outcomes and cost reductions, and relay findings and recommendations to appropriate decision maker.
Create customized and recurrent reports and dashboards.
Assist with development and evaluation of internal and external data audits.
Evaluate and analyze opportunities to merge data elements from various electronic medical record sources.
Adhere to data definitions provided by the registry of focus.
Assist quality team members in developing, reviewing and interpreting data.
Participate in annual meetings and conferences.
Complete data abstraction training programs.
Prepare reports for review with department leaders that analyze physician performance within the Electronic Health Record (EHR).
Monitor quality performance, outcomes and / or safety metrics to make recommendations for targeted process improvement projects.
Prepare briefings and reports.
Follow up and follow through on assigned action items for various projects, meetings, and committees.
Solve data integrity issues as they arise, and monitor the addition of new data, analytics and reporting systems.
Education :
Minimum Bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering, Information Management, Nursing, Health Sciences, or related field.
Experience :
Minimum 3 years’ experience with databases, data manipulation, data validation, analysis, creating dashboards to track performance.
Healthcare background and quality improvement experience a must.
Required expert level experience with Microsoft Power BI, building dashboards and ability to present data clearly.
Required experience supporting clinical quality or process improvement initiatives in a hospital or clinical setting.
Advanced proficiency with creating complex and advanced formulas in Excel and data manipulation.
Knowledge of EPIC as well as their respective report writer tools.
Knowledge of healthcare quality and outcomes measurement and reporting.
Knowledge of USNWR methodology and criteria a plus.
Knowledge of Vizient Clinical Data base tool a plus.
Demonstrated ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Demonstrated knowledge of medical terminology and understanding of cardiovascular related diseases.
Proven knowledge of and abilities using software tools including but not limited to, Business Intelligence tools, Microsoft Power BI and Tableau as well as data modeling expertise and complex problem solving skills.
Experience with clinical database systems and decision support tools including and understanding of medical terminology and clinical coding protocols.
Department Specific Functions :
1. Retrieve raw data monthly, weekly, daily, and ad-hoc for hospital quality metrics (CMI, Race-Ethnicity, LOS, etc.) using software such as Vizient and Epic.
2. Use data analytics to create graphs and reports (PowerPoint, Excel, 3M Reporting) that can be effectively used by upper management to support decision making in hospital quality matters.
3. Maintain, collect, validate, and update data used in Power BI Dashboards.
4. Create / Update process maps and flowcharts depicting new and existing department processes (SDOH, AQM Installation, Provider Provisioning, etc.).
5. Send daily quality-metrics to other departments by email to assist with quality observation, collection, and improvement.
6. Aid providers in answering queries and troubleshooting 3M PillBar issues.
7. Provide technical assistance in other quality review projects and tasks within CCT.
The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, tuition remission and more.
UHealth-University of Miami Health System, South Florida's only university-based health system, provides leading-edge patient care powered by the ground breaking research and medical education at the Miller School of Medicine.
As an academic medical center, we are proud to serve South Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Our physicians represent more than 100 specialties and sub-specialties, and have more than one million patient encounters each year.
Our tradition of excellence has earned worldwide recognition for outstanding teaching, research and patient care. We're the challenge you've been looking for.
Patient safety is a top priority. As a result, during the Influenza ("the flu") season (September through April), the University Of Miami Miller School Of Medicine requires all employees who provide ongoing services to patients, work in a location (all Hospitals and clinics) where patient care is provided, or work in patient care or clinical care areas, to have an annual influenza vaccination.
Failure to meet this requirement will result in rescinding or termination of employment.
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Job Status : Full time
Full time
Employee Type : Staff
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