Medical Informatics Analyst, Senior
Blue Shield Of California
Location
Oakland, CA | United States
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Job Description
Your Role The Data & Analytics (D&A) team focuses enterprise-wide to partner with business stakeholders to apply the power of data & analytics to deliver new insights and data-driven solutions to accelerate business outcomes. Reporting to Sr. Manager of Care Delivery Analytics, Medical Informatics Analyst, Senior, is responsible for working with stakeholders across the enterprise to be their partner in accelerating achieving population health and health equity business objectives. The Care Delivery Analytics Team supports the Medical Care Solutions, Clinical Quality, Pharmacy and Health Transformation business operations delivering analytical and reporting capabilities to internal stakeholders to monitor performance, reporting to demonstrate compliance to our regulators, and conduct analysis to demonstrate effectiveness of interventions.
This critical analytics team collaborates with other analytical and business teams to deliver insights to power the business forward. This role requires not only analytical prowess but also a broad understanding of the population health to collaborate on all aspects of the health equity strategy and tactical analytics that are designed to ultimately improve health quality and outcomes. Being able to act as "two-in-a-box" with multiple business stakeholders is critical. You will be performing independent analysis of high complexity and communicate analytical results in presentations, abstracts, graphs, or visual summaries.
This role must be adept at "translating" the business problem into an analytical approach, collaborating with the team of analytics professionals, and bringing in other specialties from within the D&A team such as data engineering, visualization, predictive modeling, and data governance as appropriate. We are looking for professionals that are energized by creative and critical thinking, building, and sustaining high-performing teams, getting results the right way, and fostering continuous learning.
Your Work In this role, you will:
- Use deep understanding of drivers to effective implementation of population health and health equity strategies to improve member outcomes and to ensure systems are created to identify, mitigate, and prevent systemic racism, oppression structural bias. While embedding population health and health equity as guiding principles for all aspects of the organization's influence, provide insights on highly complex topics, through the analysis and interpretation of data, in support of cross-functional business operations.
- Translate findings from data into consumable, actionable insights via summaries, visualizations, and recommendations.
- Independently collaborate with business to understand business objective of analytic exercise and translate needs to deliver outcomes using sustainable and scalable reporting mechanism.
- Conduct proof of concept using techniques that can quickly contemplate the viability of a product/service.
- Describe the significance of analytic results for business decision-making and make recommendations to peers.
- Be accountable for the reliability of data and validity and accuracy of analytical results.
- Communicate project status, progress, and outcomes to leaders and stakeholders.
Qualifications Your Knowledge and Experience - Requires an MPH, MBA, MS, MA in science, quantitative social science, public health, health svcs research or business, or BA/BS with demonstrated equivalent work experience
- Requires at least 3 years of experience in Health Care (managed care, academic, or gov't payer)
- Must be able to develop and modify SQL scripts and be able to wrangle large datasets, join multiple datasets
- Must be able to create data visualizations to effectively narrate an actionable data story. Preferred working experience with Tableau Desktop.
- Practical knowledge of agile or project management skills
- Requires practical knowledge of job area typically obtained through advance education combined with experience within managed care
- Understanding of payor relationship and managed care principles
Pay Range: The pay range for this role is: $ 99000.00 to $ 148500.00 for California.
Notes: Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.
About the Team Blue Shield of California's mission is to ensure all Californians have access to high-quality health care at a sustainably affordable price. We are transforming health care in a way that genuinely serves our nonprofit mission by lowering costs, improving quality, and enhancing the member and physician experience.
To fulfill our mission, we must ensure a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment where all employees can be their authentic selves and fully contribute to meet the needs of the multifaceted communities we serve. Our continued commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion upholds our values and advances our goal of creating a healthcare system that is worthy of our family and friends while addressing health disparities, promoting social justice, and integrating health equity through our products, business practices, and presence as a corporate citizen.
Blue Shield has received awards and recognition for being a certified Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work, Military Friendly Employer, People Companies that Care, a Leading Disability Employer, and one of California's top companies in volunteering and giving. Here at Blue Shield, we strive to make a positive change across our industry and communities - join us!
Our Values: - Honest . We hold ourselves to the highest ethical and integrity standards. We build trust by doing what we say we're going to do and by acknowledging and correcting where we fall short.
- Human . We strive to be our authentic selves, listening and communicating effectively, and showing empathy towards others by walking in their shoes.
- Courageous . We stand up for what we believe in and are committed to the hard work necessary to achieve our ambitious goals.
Our Workplace Model: Blue Shield of California is dedicated to making work-life balance a reality. Whether you prefer to work in an office or from home, we understand flexibility is more important than ever. That's why Blue Shield is a hybrid company, offering you the opportunity to decide where you can do your best and most meaningful work.
Two ways of working: Hybrid (our default) and office
- Hybrid - In a business unit approved office a few times per year to 3 days per week, on average
- Office - In a business unit approved office 4+ days a week, on average. If the role you're applying for is deemed an "Essential Role," the company has determined that the role can only be performed in a Blue Shield office or in the field and would require your to meet the office worker classification.
Physical Requirements: Office Environment - roles involving part to full time schedule in Office Environment. Due to the current public health emergency in California, Blue Shield employees are almost all working remotely. Based in our physical offices and work from home office/deskwork - Activity level: Sedentary, frequency most of work day.
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Equal Employment Opportunity: External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest records and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, State and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disability status and any other classification protected by Federal, State and local laws.
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