Department Data Analyst, Simulation Center

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Department Data Analyst at UT Southwestern plays a crucial role in data acquisition, management, and report generation to support administration and clinicians/researchers. This position involves working under general supervision to ensure data integrity, perform analyses, and facilitate the distribution of vital information across departments, ultimately contributing to improved patient satisfaction and operational efficiency.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Science, Information Management, Healthcare Information, Statistics, Business or closely related field.
• 3 years of data management/analyst experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working in a clinical or healthcare related field.

Responsibilities

• Abstracts data, reconciles data inconsistencies and performs analysis.
• Interprets numerical data and relates to Manager.
• Creates data reports from existing databases based on needs analysis from leadership and/or clinicians/researchers.
• Shares vital information with department management team for dissemination across all divisions.
• Prepares and submits documents to federal agencies, state agencies, private research funding agencies and other organizations as required by law and contractual vehicle.
• Monitors existing compliance documents with the terms of contractual vehicle with the university.
• Monitors data gained from department information services and creates useful downloads for distribution among division directors.
• Designs and creates merges data files and/or warehouse data sets; determines best methods for efficient capture and merging of information from various data resources and access to tools to generate reports.
• Facilitates efficient distribution of information gleaned from departmental billing downloads.
• Partners with senior leadership and/or clinicians/researchers to design and perform complex analyses and report creation, including identifying and interpreting trends, patterns of variations and implications for improvement initiatives.
• Focus on patient satisfaction outcomes and scores as noted in quarterly department data downloads.
• May provide education/training to team members on generation and/or interpretation of data, statistical analysis and application to decision making to improve organization efficiency and outcomes.
• Provides essential and informative feedback to department manager/director as to how well their area functions within parameters measured.
• Develops and maintains protocol for maintaining department-wide volunteer faculty credentialing.
• Designs and creates tools to capture data, run/build reports and conducts analysis for the purpose of measuring productivity and identifying trends/patterns that represent opportunities to improve and increase operational efficiency.
• Partners with senior leadership for review and data interpretation and then participates in plan development and implementation.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Paid parental leave
• Paid holidays
• Health insurance
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off
• Loan forgiveness
• Childcare assistance

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Hospitals
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree