Data Scientist - Health Outcomes Statistician

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We Are Hiring: We are hiring a full time Data Scientist - Health Outcomes Statistician.
The Ascension Data Sciences Institute (ADSI) was created in July 2019 with the mission of supporting Ascension in achieving its Quadruple Aim with uniquely skilled, high-performing associates who develop analyses, models and applications to enable Ascension in providing higher value healthcare and making strategic decisions. ADSI comprises 6 domains addressing 1) Operational Experience; 2) Nursing and Patient Safety; 3) Clinical Quality and Registry Operations; 4) Ascension Medical Group Patient, Physician and Programs ; 5) Population Health; and 6) Actuarial and Managed Care. We recognize that the healthcare environment is a complex ecosystem of rapidly evolving clinical and economic practices that affect patient and provider experience and demands increasingly sophisticated and complex measurement. Our objective is for advanced analytics and data science to play a critical and foundational role in the transformation of care delivery, quality and financial outcomes to enable our organization's competitive advantage.

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What You Will Do: We are hiring a Health Outcomes Statistician on the Patient, Physician and Programs Analytics team to support Ascension's strategic initiatives. As a Health Outcomes Statistician, you will have the opportunity to work at the confluence of value-based care and clinical operations through study design support and measurement. The Health Outcomes Statistician will collaborate with clinical stakeholders and value-based care leaders during planning of key initiatives to develop evaluation plans employing rigorous yet pragmatic approaches to measuring outcomes predominantly in real world settings.
Responsibilities:

• Defines process and global outcome measures in alignment with initiative goals and expectations as well as operational design and implementation.
• Consults on sample size requirements during pilot planning to ensure analytics are sufficiently powered to evaluate outcomes and support business decisions.
• Supports retrospective outcomes analysis by designing and monitoring quasi-experimental and other study designs.
• Integrates data from multiple sources and supports/performs complex statistical data analysis including but not limited to multivariate statistical analyses, multilevel modeling, dyadic analysis and/or coarsened exact matching analysis.
• Partners with The Ascension Data Science Institute Research team on study design and important findings that may have broader research implications.
• Creates publication-quality graphical and narrative representations of work products.
• Clearly communicates study results to a broad group of business stakeholders.

What You Will Need: Education:

• High school diploma/GED with 2 years of experience, or Associate's degree, or Bachelor's degree required.

Work Experience:

• 3 years of experience preferred.

Additional Preferences: Education:

• Bachelor's Degree, Masters preferred in the area of Statistics, Biostatistics or a highly related field preferred.

Work Experience:

• Demonstrate prior experience conducting causal evaluations and real-world studies.
• Experience with EMR, adjudicated claims data, and national Medicare data sets is a plus.

Technical Competencies:

• R or Python experience HIGHLY preferred.

Why Join Our Team: When you join Ascension, you join a team of over 150,000 individuals across the country committed to a Mission of serving others and providing compassionate, personalized care to all. Our inclusive culture, continuing education programs, career coaches and benefit offerings are just a few of the resources and tools that team members can use to create a rewarding career path. In fact, Ascension spent nearly $46 million in tuition assistance alone to support associate growth and development. If you are looking for a career where you can grow and make a difference in your community, we invite you to join our team today.
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