Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rush University Medical Center is seeking a Medication and Pharmacy Data Analytics Specialist to transform healthcare data into actionable insights for clinical, operational, and strategic decision-making. The role partners with pharmacy, informatics, knowledge management, and IT teams to develop analytics solutions, integrate data, build dashboards and reports, and improve medication safety and pharmacy operations.
Responsibilities
- Produces deliverables for leadership and communicates with all levels of stakeholders
- Collaborate with healthcare providers to implement and refine workflows that incorporate pharmaceutical data
- Continuous improvement of pharmacy-related IT systems, including medication dispensing software, inventory management tools, and automated dispensing technologies
- Leverage data to improve medication safety, reduce errors, and enhance clinical decision-making
- Gather business and data requirements from stakeholders
- Captures, develops, and documents data definitions, business rules, and data quality requirements
- Design and maintain databases that store pharmaceutical, clinical, and operational data (e.g., medication records, patient outcomes, drug interactions)
- Integrate data from various sources such as electronic health records (EHRs), pharmacy management systems, and clinical decision support tools to optimize and automate decision making
- Conducts data analysis in support of a variety of analytic solutions
- Create and produce forecasts, reports, ad hoc requests, dashboards, etc
- Interprets data, analyzes results, create visualizations, and provides insights to determine operational impact, trends, and opportunities to communicate insights to pharmacists, clinicians, and leadership
- Produces reports and analytics that facilitate evidence-based clinical, financial, and operational decisions
- Identifies and defines both process and data improvements
- Build and maintain systems to process, integrate, and transform data into robust analytics
- Create algorithms or models to predict medication utilization
- Work with software developers to integrate data solutions into existing healthcare platforms
- Ensures compliance with deliverable reporting requirements by performing quality data audits and analysis
- Ensure data accuracy, security, and compliance with regulations
- Provide expertise on drug-related data to support clinical trials, population health management, or precision medicine initiatives
Skills
- Education: Bachelor's degree in information science, computer science or related field
- Experience: 3 years of data analysis, query design, and reporting experience
- Experience with test reporting solutions in house reporting solutions, i.e. Tableau, MS SQL Server and Oracle
- Experience with reports, dashboards, scorecards using Microsoft SSRS, SSAS, and MDX in a data warehousing environment
- Strong analytical, multi-tasking and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated experience in requirements gathering and using relational databases
- Ability to perform detailed data analysis (i.e. determine the structure, content, and quality of the data through examination of source systems and data samples)
- Good visual aesthetic sense relative to report development and presentation to the user
- Excellent written and verbal communication, facilitation, and customer facing skills
- Must have a strong customer service orientation and excellent organizational skills
- Experience: Demonstrated pharmacy experience; Proven experience with data engineering tools and healthcare IT systems (e.g., EHRs like Epic or Cerner)
- Specialized certification(s): Epic Revenue Data Model, Epic Clinical Data Model Certification, Epic Clarity Data Model Certification, Epic Caboodle (Data Warehouse) Data Model Certification, Epic Cogito Certification, Epic Willow Ambulatory Certification, Epic Willow Inpatient Certification
- Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, T-SQL; PL/SQL
- Familiarity with ERP information systems
- Familiarity with EMR information systems
Benefits
- Rush offers exceptional rewards and benefits.
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