Healthcare Data Analyst Jobs in Illinois

INTRODUCTION

Huron helps its clients drive growth, enhance performance and sustain leadership in the markets they serve. We help healthcare organizations build innovation capabilities and accelerate key growth initiatives, enabling organizations to own the future, instead of being disrupted by it. Together, we empower clients to create sustainable growth, optimize internal processes and deliver better consumer outcomes.

Health systems, hospitals and medical clinics are under immense pressure to improve clinical outcomes and reduce the cost of providing patient care. Investing in new partnerships, clinical services and technology is not enough to create meaningful and substantive change. To succeed long-term, healthcare organizations must empower leaders, clinicians, employees, affiliates and communities to build cultures that foster innovation to achieve the best outcomes for patients.

Joining the Huron team means you’ll help our clients evolve and adapt to the rapidly changing healthcare environment and optimize existing business operations, improve clinical outcomes, create a more consumer-centric healthcare experience, and drive physician, patient and employee engagement across the enterprise.

Join our team as the expert you are now and create your future.

Associates play an indispensable role at Huron. Our dynamic Associates lead one or more project work streams utilizing Huron approaches, methodologies and tools to implement impactful and innovative solutions to address our clients’ business challenges. Skilled relationship builders, our Associates collaborate with client staff and leadership while simultaneously managing junior Huron staff. Everyone works in symphony to achieve a common objective: create and implement sustainable solutions. Through our varied projects, Associates gain valuable, hands-on consulting and change management experience, while positively impacting mission-driven healthcare organizations.

Huron prides itself on being a firm big enough to boast a global footprint – yet not too big to hinder our entrepreneurial spirit. This allows everyone to make an impact and gives you access to a multitude of career paths both within and beyond your areas of expertise. Our focus on professional development is unmatched as you build critical leadership skills to grow your career and mentor junior Huron staff to do the same. We’re dedicated to helping you reach your true potential! Create your future at Huron.

Responsibilities:

• Extract and analyze data from Huron’s analytics platform to identify patterns and related trends to synthesize data into information
• Perform advanced data exploration and interpretation to research metrics from data across multiple sources, types, and modalities for diagnosis and prediction, to detect problems before they start
• Build data visualization tools, dashboards and reports
• Package insights into standard report set for client consumption, flagging notable areas for immediate review and action. Prepare reports for the stakeholders to understand the data analysis steps, enabling them to make important decisions based on various facts and trends and realize a significant return on investment.
• Identify areas of opportunities, levers, and actionable strategies to address. Grow customer relationships by building confidence and trust in the data and insights we provide.
• Continually identify new next generation metrics and insights to be built into the analytics platform
• Perform data mapping, standardization, validation and quality assurance, ensuring highest standards of data integrity throughout the data collection to reporting pipeline
• Define and monitor comparability across multiple organizations (aka cohorts) in alignment to industry best practice standards and peer groups
• Query data to answer internal or client questions
• Coordinate with functional and technical resources to implement and support new technologies and processes. Enhance the analytical/reporting performance of the Insights as a Service offering and Huron in the service of its clients.

JOB REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree (BS, BA) required. Preferred areas of study include Information Systems, Health Care Informatics, mathematics, statistics, finance, technical or health care analytics related discipline or equivalent experience
• 3-5+ years of relevant experience in healthcare (preferred in Revenue Cycle)
• Proven analytical skills particularly with large, comprehensive data sets
• Demonstrated ability to communicate ideas clearly and concisely to internal and client stakeholders, including complex, technical information, with a strong attention to detail
• Role is predominantly remote, with expectation of occasional travel for internal or client meetings
• US Work Authorization required
• Experience with comprehensive healthcare data sets (claims, financial performance, clinical, and other related healthcare data)
• Recent healthcare consulting, analytics, and/or technical experience in a team-based professional services firm environment

SKILLS/COMPETENCIES:

• Demonstrated ability to prioritize and balance multiple priorities and projects
• Demonstrated ability to deliver a high level of customer satisfaction
• Demonstrated experience in issue resolution
• Demonstrated experience in systemic and logical approach to problem solving
• Working both autonomously, and collaboratively with others, with limited supervision and with the ability to navigate in uncertainty
• Advanced knowledge of MS Office programs and tools including PowerPoint, Word, Excel
• Demonstrable experience in advanced data analysis / visualization tools (Tableau, QuickSight, Power BI, etc.)
• Strong written communication and documentation skills to create and edit internal and client deliverables that are succinct, articulate, and meet Huron’s standards of quality
• Exceptional organization and time management skills to manage multiple priorities at once with fast-paced turnaround times

COMPENSATION

• The estimated base salary range for this job is $100,000 - $130,000. The range represents a good faith estimate of the range that Huron reasonably expects to pay for this job at the time of the job posting. The actual salary paid to an individual will vary based on multiple factors, including but not limited to specific skills or certifications, years of experience, market changes, and required travel. This job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s annual incentive compensation program, which reflects Huron’s pay for performance philosophy. Inclusive of annual incentive compensation opportunity, the total estimated compensation range for this job is $112,000 - $153,400. The job is also eligible to participate in Huron’s benefit plans which include medical, dental and vision coverage and other wellness programs. The salary range information provided is in accordance with applicable state and local laws regarding salary transparency that are currently in effect and may be implemented in the future.

Position Level

Associate

Country

United States of America