Quality Improvement Analyst III - Health Systems

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

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About The Position

The Quality Improvement Analyst III (QIA III) will serve as an advanced-level analyst supporting the development and administration of a health system-wide quality and operational analytics. Works under minimal supervision to produce expert-level analysis, analytics, reports, dashboards, and other resources in support of Health System Quality & Operational Excellence Department's goals and objectives.

Requirements

• Associate's Degree in healthcare, computer science, nursing, or mathematics
• 4 years of relevant experience.
• Equivalent years of work experience may substitute for educational requirements.
• Data management and querying skills.
• Analytical and statistical methods.

Nice To Haves

• Master's Degree

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and automate clinical quality and performance metrics.
• Maintain knowledge base of data requirements and measure definitions.
• Serve as a content expert for clinical quality measures by keeping current with national healthcare quality program guidelines.
• Implements analytic approaches and technical methodology under supervision; executes work plan tasks as assigned.
• Uses judgement to distinguish relevant from irrelevant information.
• Uses factual data to produce and deliver credible and understandable reports.
• Participate on multi-disciplinary teams and provide comprehensive analytical support for clinical performance improvement initiatives.
• Extract, validate and summarize data from different large databases using data management and querying skills.
• Analyze and organize data using appropriate analytical and statistical methods to efficiently track clinical processes and outcomes.
• Assist in the interpretation of data to identify opportunities for improved healthcare delivery.
• Participate in special projects as needed.
• May provide mentoring and guidance to less experienced staff.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree