Research Informatics Analyst Developer

Here, it's different. Come join us.

Children's Hospital Colorado has defined and delivered pediatric healthcare excellence for more than 100 years.

Here, the nation's brightest nurses, physicians, scientists, researchers, therapists, and care providers are creating the future of child health. With an optimist's outlook, a trailblazing spirit, and a celebrated history, we're making new strides every day.

We've been Magnet-designated four times by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and are consistently recognized among the best of the best pediatric hospitals with #1 rankings in Colorado and the region by U.S. News & World Report.

As a national leader in pediatric care, we serve children and families from all over the nation. Our System of Care includes four pediatric hospitals, 11 specialty care centers, 1,300+ outreach clinics and more than 10,000 healthcare professionals representing the full spectrum of pediatric care specialties.

Here, we know it takes all of us, every role, to deliver the best possible care to each child and family we treat.

That's why we build our teams toward a foundation of equity in access, advancement, and opportunity. We know teams of individuals with different identities and backgrounds can nurture creativity and innovation. We know we can see, treat, and heal children better when our team reflects the diversity of our patient population. We strive to attract and retain diverse talent because we know a truly inclusive and equitable workforce will help us one day realize our most basic calling: to heal every child who comes through our doors.

A career at Children's Colorado will challenge you, inspire you, and motivate you to make a difference in the life of a child. Here, it's different.

This role will work with multi-disciplinary teams of researchers, biostatisticians, data scientists, software engineers, physicians, and other health care personnel to create custom SQL, R and Python code to support the development and implementation of clinical research projects at Children's Hospital Colorado such as those in the Heart Institute and the Pediatric Mental Health Institute. As a Research Informatics team member, this role will collaborate with others to validate and test code, solve complex problems, develop new processes and methods to meet the everchanging research informatics and data needs of researchers. Analysts participate in both formal and informal learning opportunities to advance skills and methodologies.

This role will support research needs using EHR-based tools, SQL in a relational database and other tools to provide data sets for analysis. This work may include mapping and harmonizing data into common data models, such as OMOP with standard terminologies, such as SNOMED, LOINC and RxNorm. This role may implement predictive models into the electronic health record, perform model, risk score and decision support validation.

The primary data source is the Epic electronic health record databases, with other institutional and external data sources as needed. The toolsets in this role are evolving as needs grow, with an expectation to learn new technologies and skills as needed. Currently, SQL skills are required including, but not limited to common table expressions and window functions. Other programming languages such as R (e.g. tidyverse, bigrquery, devtools. etc.) or Python are desired, with occasional use of graphical user interfaces. Dashboarding tools like PowerBI or Tableau are required for some projects. In addition to consultation and data wrangling, this role may perform natural language processing, probabilistic record linkage, development, and maintenance of algorithms for free-text de-identification, sensitivity analyses, implementation and validation of predictive models and other needs as they arise.

Department: Analytics Resource Center (ARC)
Hours per week: 40, eligible for benefits
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8am-5pm. Work hours may vary depending on the need of the department.

*This is a hybrid position

EDUCATION - High School or GED.

• Prefer Masters in Public Health, epidemiology, health informatics, computer science

EXPERIENCE - Minimum of one (1) year of related experience is required.

• Three (3) years of EPIC Analyst experience preferred

CERTIFICATION(S) - Epic Certification required within four months of hire to maintain employment.

Strong candidates have expertise in electronic health record data, standard medical terminologies, common clinical data models and data harmonization.

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

• No direct patient care.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

• Conducts data analysis and develops meaningful, accurate and dependable data reports, research registry forms, and dashboards.
• Completes data extraction and manipulation to develop meaningful and actionable results and may complete data profiling. Supports and performs data validation and auditing.
• Collaborates with a variety of individuals and department teams to provide comprehensive analyses supporting organizational wide projects, programs, and initiatives. Works directly with requestors to ensure best practices for data reporting and variable development.
• Identifies data sources needed to produce required data sets or reports. Ensures delivered data solutions meet requirements. Collaborates with others to solve problems and obtain feedback on reports.
• Prepares, analyzes and develops reports using a variety of different reporting tools. Develops regularly scheduled and ad hoc reports for end users and data quality management.
• May performs primary and secondary research techniques to produce insightful decisions and support recommendations.
• Manages, facilitates, and provides oversight for a variety of analytical projects from start to finish.
• Provides project management, data analysis and support for collaborative work and major improvement initiatives.
• Presents data-related progress updates and findings to internal and external stakeholders, project teams, departments, and leadership. Creates data products, data visualizations and presentations.
• Involved in the development, preparation and outcome tracking for clinical and operational performance metrics.
• Gathers functional and technical requirements to design, build, test, deliver and manage data repositories, reporting, ETL, data warehouse, registry or data collection forms, and dashboarding functions.
• Acts as liaison between IT teams and business stakeholders and end users.
• Assumes on-call responsibilities as required.

SCOPE AND LEVEL

• Guidelines: Possesses knowledge of and applies the fundamental concepts, practices and procedures within a particular field of specialization.
• Complexity: Duties and tasks are varied and somewhat complex, but usually involve limited responsibility. Procedures, methods and techniques to carry out work may not be well defined, requiring greater analysis.
• Decision Making: Has some discretion in making some decisions. Decisions and recommendations are made after contemplative analysis and with independent judgment and ingenuity. May escalate the most complex and important decisions to a higher level employee, supervisor and/or manager.
• Communication: Communicates explanatory and/or interpretive information relative to the organization and/or own function with team members, peers, management, clients and in limited cases, the public. Uses some discretion and independent judgment when information is exchanged, gathered and/or presented. Defers to higher level team members and/or management in many situations.
• Supervision Received: Works under some supervision, conferring with higher level employees, supervisor and/or manager as needed.

PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS

• Vision - Near: clear vision at 20 inches or less
• Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: up to 10 pounds/4.5 kilos, up to 1/3 of time
• Hearing: able to clearly hear details
• Sit: 2/3 or more of time
• Talk: able to communicate verbally
• Mental/Emotional: able to work in close proximity to others and/or in a distracting environment
• Mental/Emotional: able to cope with stress effectively
• Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Mental/Emotional: able to tolerate ambiguity
• Mental/Emotional: able to prioritize effectively
• Mental/Emotional: may be subject to many interruptions
• Office Work Environment: Regular/frequent exposure
• Bloodborne Pathogen Category 2: Occasional exposure to blood/body fluid

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

The position is expected to stay open until the posted close date. Please submit your application as soon as possible as the posting is subject to close at any time once a sufficient pool of qualified applicants is obtained.

Here, you matter. As a Children's Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to professional development tools, including an education benefit to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children's Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.