Job Id: 805128
Data Analyst- Clinical Operations Informatics Specialist
Client: VA DOC
Location: Onsite, 6900 Atmore Road, Richmond VA 23225
Duration: 12+ Months
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.
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Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Competencies:
Minimum:
- Demonstrated experienceย in independentlyย 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 experienceย answeringย clinical questions intoย analysis of data from an electronic health record system.
- Demonstrated experienceย validating EHR data withย outside data sources
- Demonstrated experience validating EHRย data throughย triangulation withย otherย data within theย EHR
- Demonstrated experience documentingย workflowsย fromย clinicalย practice into EHRย data entry and data management
- Extensiveย experience withย applyingย national EHRย standardsย to anย 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 clinicalย and data findings clearly to non-technical 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
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ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Documenting current workflows, identifying gaps, supporting staff-facing improvements, and contributing to standardization across state facilities.ย ย Establish documented inventory of HSU clinical workflows in EHR with prioritized improvement recommendations.
2. Data extraction, analysis and visualization
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ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Pulling data from the EHR to answer clinical and operational questions and validating it against reliable data sets.ย ย Building reporting that informs practice, and otherwise visualizing data that supports leadership decision-making with evidence.ย Establish practice for clinical data extraction and reporting with some completed reports answering live HSU questions.
3. Validation and testing
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ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Validation of EHR updates from user perspective view.ย ย Consistent testing coverage of the base system in addition to support for MAR and related project components.ย ย Establish documented reduction in validation gaps on EHR changes.
4. Direct support to medical staff
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ยทย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย ย Acting as a clinical point of contact for EHR-related questions and requests, with responsiveness as an explicit value.ย Successful handoff of documentation and established processes for continuity of work.