Department
BSD CRI - Data Warehouse
About the Department
Job Summary
Responsibilities
Meet with faculty, residents, clinicians, and students (clients) to develop and design functional project specifications for data requests from the Clinical Research Data Warehouse (CRDW) and the MDClone application.
Act as a liaison between clinicians, researchers, and data stewards to streamline data acquisition processes.
Understand data extractions and identify new data sources for the data warehouses and affiliated data marts, both local and distributed.
Assist in the preparation of self-service data from various applications.
Preparation of scientific publications, presentations, and grant proposals.
Oversees the prioritization and portfolio of Cardiology Data Center projects in partnership with the faculty lead and the CRI’s Center Director; includes the planning, design, implementation, and completion of all projects
Provide ongoing feedback and support to clients to understand how available data sources align with project needs while working with the team to facilitate an understanding of client’s goals.
Ensure that activities dependent upon the CRDW and self-service applications adhere to relevant regulations, industry standards, and internal policies.
With moderate direction from others, conducts business process analyses, needs assessments, and preliminary cost/benefits analyses. Uses basic understanding of applicable business processes, systems, and industry requirements.
Implements functional, system, and program specifications. Assists in revising existing system logic difficulties as necessary, under the direction of more experienced colleagues.
Performs other related work as needed.
Minimum Qualifications
Education:
Minimum requirements include a college or university degree in related field.
Work Experience:
Certifications:
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Preferred Qualifications
Education:
Advanced degree in a health-related field.
Experience:
1 year of clinical experience.
Experience with the clinical research processes.
6 month experience with clinical quality improvement processes and project management, cardiology preferred.
Experience w/ AHA Get With the Guideline program.
Experience with AAMCs.
Experience navigating a matrixed organizational structure.
Experience translating between clinical and data ontologies.
Experience facilitating groups with multiple stakeholders.
Experience investigating data issues and working with a cross-functional team for problem resolution.
Experience with statistical software such as R, Stata, and SAS.
Experience with Tableau or other business intelligence tools.
Certifications:
Epic Cosmos Super User certification required w/in 6 months of employment.
MDClone Super User certification required w/in 6 months of employment.
Epic Report Builder, Epic Caboodle, or other related Epic certifications a plus.
RN, DNP, MD, or other clinical licensure a plus.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
Knowledge of healthcare data including ICD-9, ICD-10, and CPT.
Academic medical center knowledge.
Medical terminology knowledge.
Preferred Competencies
Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams including but not limited to bioinformaticists, software developers, system administrators, and hospital reporting teams.
High level of problem solving and decision-making skills.
Excellent communication skills, working directly with clients and the team to translate clinical research deliverables into technically viable data extraction needs.
Ability to understand faculty research requirements and translate them to technologies.
Ability to develop functional project specifications.
Ability to elicit cooperation and maintain productive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Ability to translate technical information to non-technical audiences.
Critical thinking and multi-tasking skills with the ability to manage multiple projects
Time management skills.
Proficiency in creating technical specifications, business cases, and other development-related documentation.
Proficiency in MS Word, MS Excel, and web-based applications.
Proficiency w/ AgileMD software.
Proficiency w/ REDCap EDC software.
Ability to manage, interpret, and present data.
Self-motivated given appropriate direction for goals. Must be able to work autonomously in a sometimes ambiguous and changing environment.
Intellectual curiosity.
Energized by working through complex problems
Application Documents
Resume (required)
Cover Letter (preferred)
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Job Family
Role Impact
Scheduled Weekly Hours
Drug Test Required
Health Screen Required
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Pay Rate Type
FLSA Status
Pay Range
The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.
Benefits Eligible
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Skills Required
- College or university degree in a related field
- 2-5 years of related work experience / knowledge and skills developed through 2-5 years
- Epic Cosmos Super User certification (required within 6 months of employment)
- MDClone Super User certification (required within 6 months of employment)
- 1 year of clinical experience
- Experience with clinical research processes
- 6 months experience with clinical quality improvement processes and project management (cardiology preferred)
- Experience with AHA Get With The Guideline program
- Experience with AAMCs
- Experience translating between clinical and data ontologies
- Experience facilitating multi-stakeholder groups and investigating data issues with cross-functional teams
- Experience with statistical software such as R, Stata, and SAS
- Experience with Tableau or other business intelligence tools
- Epic Report Builder, Epic Caboodle, or other Epic certifications
- RN, DNP, MD, or other clinical licensure
- Knowledge of healthcare data coding systems (ICD-9, ICD-10, CPT)
- Academic medical center knowledge and medical terminology knowledge
- Proficiency with MS Word, MS Excel, web-based applications, AgileMD, and REDCap EDC software
What We Do
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