SENIOR DIRECTOR PERFORMANCE INFORMATICS

Montefiore Health System•Plaza, ND

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Senior Director, Performance Informatics is responsible for leading the Data & Analytics team in the Network Performance Group as well as leading interdepartmental efforts at the medical center and health system to enhance the ability to acquire and analyze data for quality/performance improvement efforts and provide expertise for the prioritization of quality topics where resources should be devoted. This includes, but is not limited to, contributing to strategic planning to improve Montefiore’s ability to respond to external pay-for-performance programs as well as improve Montefiore’s performance in public hospital rankings (e.g., CMS Hospital Quality Star Rating) , setting performance goals for performance improvement, facilitating quality/performance improvement activities by serving as an expert in health policy and quality measurement, advising and assisting with the acquisition of data needed to support quality/performance improvement activities, providing quantitative/analytic expertise to gauge success with meeting quality/performance improvement goals, and serving as a lead executive, in partnership with MIT, in establishing a standardized data governance and reporting infrastructure via the new enterprise reporting standard, Power BI.

Requirements

PhD in Health Policy, Informatics, or other related health care field
10+ years of experience in Data and Analytics
Leadership experience at a large academic medical center
Advanced training and experience in econometrics/statistics, data management, data reporting, and study design
Expert knowledge of federal and NY state health policy pertaining to quality and patient safety, quality measurement (QI) programs, and associated penalties/consequences
Ability to operationalize health policy knowledge into tangible QI strategies and work products
Strong experience with quality measures and quality improvement methodologies
Ability to work with structured query language (SQL), PL/SQL desirable, and Oracle Developer or other related software
Experience with at least one statistical software package (e.g., SAS, Stata, R, etc.)
Experience with visualization software packages (e.g., Tableau, Web Intelligence, etc.)
Knowledgeable about data warehousing, data models, and metadata
Experience partnering effectively across various levels of an organization (e.g., C-suite and other leaders, database engineers, business analysts, clinicians, etc.)
Ability to communicate effectively in writing and verbally
Strong interpersonal skills
Strong project management skills

Nice To Haves

Experience in more than one statistical software package
Ability to contribute to the education of medical students at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (i.e. hold faculty appointment of Assistant Professor or greater)

Responsibilities

Leading the Data & Analytics team in the Network Performance Group.
Leading interdepartmental efforts at the medical center and health system to enhance the ability to acquire and analyze data for quality/performance improvement efforts.
Providing expertise for the prioritization of quality topics where resources should be devoted.
Contributing to strategic planning to improve Montefiore’s ability to respond to external pay-for-performance programs.
Improving Montefiore’s performance in public hospital rankings (e.g., CMS Hospital Quality Star Rating).
Setting performance goals for performance improvement.
Facilitating quality/performance improvement activities by serving as an expert in health policy and quality measurement.
Advising and assisting with the acquisition of data needed to support quality/performance improvement activities.
Providing quantitative/analytic expertise to gauge success with meeting quality/performance improvement goals.
Serving as a lead executive, in partnership with MIT, in establishing a standardized data governance and reporting infrastructure via the new enterprise reporting standard, Power BI.