Data Analyst

DataStaff, Inc is seeking a Data Analyst for a short-term contract opportunity with one of our direct clients located in Richmond, VA. • This position is onsite. 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 focused 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. Responsibilities: • Documenting current workflows, identifying gaps, supporting staff-facing improvements, and contributing to standardization across state facilities. • Establish a documented inventory of HSU clinical workflows in EHR with prioritized improvement recommendations. • Pulling data from the EHR to answer clinical and operational questions and validating it against reliable data sets. • Building reporting that informs practice, and otherwise visualizing data that supports leadership decision-making with evidence. • Establish practice for clinical data extraction and reporting with some completed reports answering live HSU questions. • Validation of EHR updates from user perspective view. • Consistent testing coverage of the base system in addition to support for MAR and related project components. • Establish documented reduction in validation gaps on EHR changes. • Acting as a clinical point of contact for EHR-related questions and requests, with responsiveness as an explicit value. • Successful handoff of documentation and established processes for continuity of work. Required/Desired Skills: • Demonstrated experience in independently 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 experience in answering clinical questions into analysis of data from an electronic health record system. • Demonstrated experience validating EHR data with outside data sources • Demonstrated experience validating EHR data 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 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 • 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 is required This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.