Data Analyst 4 (Clinical Operations Informatics Specialist)

Job Title: Data Analyst 4 (Clinical Operations Informatics Specialist)
Location: Richmond VA - Onsite
Duration: 12 months
Interview Type: Either Phone or In Person

Job Description:
The role supports workflow improvement, clinical data analysis, and validation work
that informs practice and decision making across Health Services. This is a clinical
facing role with a work focus on clinical practice and end user experience. They will
work closely with the Health Services EHR team and alongside the technical teams
responsible for EHR configuration and development.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Competencies:
Minimum:
Demonstrated experience in independently structuring unclassified medical data
from unstructured texts and mapping data elements to standard vocabulary,
enabling interoperability, clinical decision support, coding, and data analytics.
Deep understanding of medical vocabularies from both a clinical viewpoint and
informatics perspective.
Extensive experience pulling data out of electronic health record systems
Demonstrated experience answering clinical questions into analysis of data from
an electronic health record system.
Demonstrated experience validating EHR data with outside data sources
Demonstrated experience validating EHR data through triangulation
with other data within the EHR
Demonstrated experience documenting workflows from clinical practice into
EHR data entry and data management
Extensive experience with applying national EHR standards to an EHR product.
Demonstrated experience standardizing processes around an EHR
implementation.
Demonstrated experience analyzing and documenting clinical workflows in a
multidisciplinary care setting
Demonstrated ability to communicate clinical and data findings clearly to nontechnical audiences including medical staff and leadership
Experience working in a multidisciplinary clinical environment with multiple
stakeholder groups

Additional Considerations:
Clinical or medical background (nursing, medicine, pharmacy, or similar) preferred
Correctional or institutional healthcare experience desired; experience in other
constrained, multidisciplinary clinical environments may substitute
Experience with EHR systems in a clinical capacity required

Core Duties:
1. Clinical workflow documentation
Documenting current workflows, identifying gaps, supporting staff-facing
improvements, and contributing to standardization across state
facilities. Establish documented inventory of HSU clinical workflows in EHR with
prioritized improvement recommendations.
2. Data extraction, analysis and visualization
Pulling data from the EHR to answer clinical and operational questions and
validating it against reliable data sets. Building reporting that informs practice,
and otherwise visualizing data that supports leadership decision-making with
evidence. Establish practice for clinical data extraction and reporting with some
completed reports answering live HSU questions.
3. Validation and testing
Validation of EHR updates from user perspective view. Consistent testing
coverage of the base system in addition to support for MAR and related project
components. Establish documented reduction in validation gaps on EHR
changes.
4. Direct support to medical staff
Acting as a clinical point of contact for EHR-related questions and requests,
with responsiveness as an explicit value Successful handoff of documentation
and established processes for continuity of work.

Required Skills:
Experience in independently structuring unclassified medical data from unstructured texts and mapping data elements to standard vocabulary
Experience pulling data out of electronic health record systems
Experience validating EHR datathrough triangulation with other data within the EHR
Experience documenting workflows from clinical practice into EHR data entry and data management
Ability to communicate clinical and data findings clearly to nontechnical audiences including medical staff and leadershi