Data Analyst

DataStaff, Inc is seeking a Data Analyst for a short-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Richmond, VA.

* This position is onsite.

Job Description:

The role supports workflow improvement, clinical data analysis, and validation work that informs practice and decision-making across Health Services. This is a clinical-facing role with a work focused on clinical practice and end-user experience. They will work closely with the Health Services EHR team and alongside the technical teams responsible for EHR configuration and development.

Responsibilities:

• Documenting current workflows, identifying gaps, supporting staff-facing improvements, and contributing to standardization across state facilities.
• Establish a documented inventory of HSU clinical workflows in EHR with prioritized improvement recommendations.
• Pulling data from the EHR to answer clinical and operational questions and validating it against reliable data sets.
• Building reporting that informs practice, and otherwise visualizing data that supports leadership decision-making with evidence.
• Establish practice for clinical data extraction and reporting with some completed reports answering live HSU questions.
• Validation of EHR updates from user perspective view.
• Consistent testing coverage of the base system in addition to support for MAR and related project components.
• Establish documented reduction in validation gaps on EHR changes.
• Acting as a clinical point of contact for EHR-related questions and requests, with responsiveness as an explicit value.
• Successful handoff of documentation and established processes for continuity of work.

Required/Desired Skills:

• Demonstrated experience in independently structuring unclassified medical data from unstructured texts and mapping data elements to standard vocabulary, enabling interoperability, clinical decision support, coding, and data analytics.
• Deep understanding of medical vocabularies from both a clinical viewpoint and informatics perspective.
• Extensive experience pulling data out of electronic health record systems
• Demonstrated experience in answering clinical questions into analysis of data from an electronic health record system.
• Demonstrated experience validating EHR data with outside data sources
• Demonstrated experience validating EHR data through triangulation with other data within the EHR
• Demonstrated experience documenting workflows from clinical practice into EHR data entry and data management
• Extensive experience with applying national EHR standards to an EHR product.
• Demonstrated experience standardizing processes around EHR implementation.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting clinical workflows in a multidisciplinary care setting.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate clinical and data findings clearly to non-technical audiences, including medical staff and leadership
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary clinical environment with multiple stakeholder groups
• Clinical or medical background (nursing, medicine, pharmacy, or similar) preferred
• Correctional or institutional healthcare experience desired; experience in other constrained, multidisciplinary clinical environments may substitute
• Experience with EHR systems in a clinical capacity is required

This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.