Job Description

Join UChicago Medicine, as an Informatics Analyst in the Performance Assessment department. This is a remote, work from home opportunity and you may be based outside of the greater Chicagoland area.

Job Summary

The Informatics Analyst is responsible for serving as a coordinating analyst on designated information systems, informatics, technology-focused, and quality evaluations and initiatives. The Informatics Analyst works as a liaison with clinical staff, including physicians, nurses, and professional allied healthcare workers, to help understand and optimize information technology systems. The position collaborates with interdisciplinary workers to craft operational and quality solutions for medical translation, pharmacy, and other services. The position performs data aggregation, analyses, data presentations, and administrative tasks related to the coordination of proposed and existing projects. The role may serve as lead and/or provide guidance on designated projects. 

Essential Job Functions

• Provide project coordination support and leadership for designated information system, informatics, technology-focused, and quality evaluations and initiatives.
• EMR system analysis and design 
• Supports strategic initiatives and projects, including collaborating with physicians and staff, collecting and analyzing data, developing summary reports, dashboards, and scorecards.
• Performs other administrative duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor degree required; advanced degree preferred
• Experience with hospital information systems and Epic builds strongly preferred
• Two or more years of post-undergraduate experience in a clinical setting, leadership, project management role with proven results, or equivalent required
• Knowledge of the US health care system preferred
• Strong analytical skills (Excel and Access experience required) and excellent problem solving skills
• Ability to use analytic software, report generating software, and analyzing/handling large databases
• Ability to prioritize and achieve goals of multiple simultaneous projects
• Basic presentation creation skills (PowerPoint skills)
• Demonstrated ability to understand complex metrics/drivers related to patient care
• Self-motivated, able to plan and organize tasks across multiple projects, and ability to meet deadlines

Position Details

• Job Type/FTE: Full-time
• Shift: Day
• Department: Performance Assessment – Hyde Park
• CBA Code: Non-Union

Must comply with UCMC’s COVID-19 Vaccination requirement as a condition of employment. If you have already received the vaccination, you must provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. This is in addition to your compliance with the Flu Vaccination requirement as well. Medical and religious exemptions will be considered consistent with applicable law. Lastly, a pre-employment physical, drug screening, and background check are also required for all employees prior to hire.

Why Join Us

We’ve been at the forefront of medicine since 1899. We provide superior healthcare with compassion, always mindful that each patient is a person, an individual. To accomplish this, we need employees with passion, talent and commitment… with patients and with each other. We’re in this together: working to advance medical innovation, serve the health needs of the community, and move our collective knowledge forward. If you’d like to add enriching human life to your profile, The University of Chicago Medicine is for you. Here at the forefront, we’re doing work that really matters. Join us. Bring your passion.

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Bring your career to the next level at a hospital that is thriving; from patient satisfaction to employee engagement, we are at the Forefront of Medicine. Take advantage of all we have to offer and #BringYourPassiontotheForefront.

University of Chicago Medicine is growing; discover how you can be a part of this pursuit of excellence at: www.uchospitals.edu/jobs 

The University of Chicago Medical Center is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, parental status, religion, national origin, age, disability, veteran status and other legally protected characteristics.