Clinical Data Scientist Jobs

Employment Type
Full time
Shift
Day Shift
Description
The Clinical Data Scientist prepares and makes effective use of data, applying knowledge of best practices to support hospital-specific and regional quality improvement and patient safety initiatives. They address the data reporting needs for regulatory bodies such as CMS, CDC, local health departments, and other accreditation bodies such as Joint Commission. They prepare dashboards and reports and develops visualization tools to communicate data insights with clinical teams, hospital leadership, and other operational stakeholders.
A successful data scientist will be responsible for analyzing and interpreting complex data to support clinical and quality improvement initiatives, ultimately leading to improving patient outcomes. They work collaboratively with clinical and operational teams, identifies the research question, generates a hypothesis, and develops project planning for improvement initiatives. They design and implement business intelligence tools and solutions impacting hospital quality metrics. They create automated procedures and databases to optimize report automation, ensuring data quality and integrity. They develop solutions for technical data extraction and manipulation to generate insightful and actionable analysis. They manage the technology used in day-to-day data reporting and analytics.
Position Responsibilities

• Use LUHS information systems to support innovation in clinical care, service, and resource utilization, providing expertise on the use of clinical data to identify quality and performance improvement opportunities and measure success. Creates dashboards, ad-hoc reports, and robust analyses addressing departmental and as well as hospital level analytics needs.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Prepares quality and safety reports for LUHS committees, executive leadership, and management teams to support decision-making and action planning. Design and implement statistical models to identify patterns, trends, and insights in clinical and quality data.
• Provides analytical support for teams addressing local quality and regional improvement initiatives by engaging key stakeholders.
• Communicates performance and technical definitions of national benchmarks and performance reporting with leaderships for programs such as HVBP, CMS Star rating, and other hospital and specialty ranking agencies, including USWR measures and Leapfrog.

Requirements

• Programming skills in Python and R preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Health Sciences, Computer Science, or Health Informatics or related field.
• Strong SQL and coding experience.
• Proficiency in statistical software such as R or SAS, and database management.
• EPIC certification or training minimum in Cognito, Clarity and Caboodle Data models.
• 3+ years of previous job-related experience.

At Loyola, we know you’re more than your job. We see you and all of your potential. That’s why we invest in our people. Clinical advancement programs, flexible scheduling, tuition reimbursement and day one benefits… at Loyola, what’s important to you, is important to us. Join our family.

• Self-Scheduling
• Daily Pay (SJHS only)
• Benefits from Day One
• On Site Fitness Center (Gottlieb Memorial Hospital & LUMC)
• Career Development
• Educational Stipend
• Nurse Residency program for new grads (Transition to Practice)
• Weekender program
• Referral Rewards
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Competitive Shift Differentials including charge and preceptor roles
• Certification reimbursement (up to 1 certification)

Commitment To Diversity And Inclusion
Trinity Health is one of the largest not-for-profit, faith-based health care systems in the nation. It is a family of 123,000 colleagues and nearly 27,000 physicians and clinicians caring for diverse communities across 26 states. Nationally recognized for care and experience, the Trinity Health system includes 88 hospitals, 135 continuing care locations, the second largest PACE program in the country, 136 urgent care locations and many other health and well-being services. Based in Livonia, Michigan, its annual operating revenue is $21.5 billion with $1.4 billion returned to its communities in the form of charity care and other community benefit programs.
Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
Trinity Health is a family of 115,000 colleagues and nearly 26,000 physicians and clinicians across 25 states. Because we serve diverse populations, our colleagues are trained to recognize the cultural beliefs, values, traditions, language preferences, and health practices of the communities that we serve and to apply that knowledge to produce positive health outcomes. We also recognize that each of us has a different way of thinking and perceiving our world and that these differences often lead to innovative solutions.
Our dedication to diversity includes a unified workforce (through training and education, recruitment, retention, and development), commitment and accountability, communication, community partnerships, and supplier diversity.
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