Data Analyst 4

Data Analyst 4

This position 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 focus on clinical practice and end-user experience. The specialist will work to translate between medical staff, the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system, and clinical data needs, working closely with the Health Services EHR team and technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Document current clinical workflows, identify gaps, support staff-facing improvements, and contribute to standardization across state facilities.
• Extract data from the EHR to answer clinical and operational questions, validating it against reliable data sets.
• Build reports and visualize data to inform practice and support leadership decision-making.
• Validate EHR updates from a user perspective, ensuring consistent testing coverage of the base system.
• Act as a clinical point of contact for EHR-related questions and requests, ensuring responsiveness.
• Ensure successful handoff of documentation and established processes for continuity of work.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in independently structuring unclassified medical data from unstructured texts and mapping data elements to standard vocabulary.
• Deep understanding of medical vocabularies from both a clinical and informatics perspective.
• Extensive experience pulling data out of electronic health record systems.
• Demonstrated experience translating clinical questions into analysis of data from an electronic health record system.
• Demonstrated experience validating EHR data with outside data sources and through triangulation with other data within the EHR.
• Demonstrated experience documenting workflows from clinical practice into EHR data entry and data management.
• Extensive experience with applying national EHR standards to an 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 clinical and data findings clearly to non-technical audiences, including medical staff and leadership.
• Experience working in a multidisciplinary clinical environment with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Experience with EHR systems in a clinical capacity is required.

Preferred Qualifications

• A clinical or medical background (nursing, medicine, pharmacy, or similar) is preferred.
• Correctional or institutional healthcare experience is desired; experience in other constrained, multidisciplinary clinical environments may substitute.