Health Data Analyst
Role Overview
The Health Data Analyst (PHIG) assesses and improves health data quality, performs advanced statistical analyses, and designs interactive reporting and visualization tools.
The role works across public health surveillance, clinical data, and claims databases to support chronic disease monitoring, quality metrics, and population health initiatives.
The position supports data-driven decision-making, data governance, and regulatory compliance.
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About UHIN
Utah Health Information Network is a nonprofit health information technology company focused on reducing barriers and inefficiencies in healthcare.
UHIN aggregates, transforms, and exchanges healthcare data to support decisions by healthcare organizations.
Role overview
The Health Data Analyst (PHIG) assesses and improves health data quality, performs advanced statistical analyses, and designs interactive reporting and visualization tools.
The role works across public health surveillance, clinical data, and claims databases to support chronic disease monitoring, quality metrics, and population health initiatives.
The position supports data-driven decision-making, data governance, and regulatory compliance.
Responsibilities
- Assess health data quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness across disparate systems.
- Extract and analyze complex healthcare and public health datasets, including claims and clinical data.
- Build and maintain interactive dashboards, reports, and visualizations; deliver actionable insights.
- Support public health surveillance, chronic disease monitoring, quality metrics, and population health initiatives.
- Maintain privacy, confidentiality, and security when handling data and PHI; follow HIPAA and UHIN policies.
- Communicate findings and recommendations to clinicians, medical directors, public health partners, and leadership; collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
Education and experience
- Bachelor's degree in Healthcare Informatics, Epidemiology, Public Health, Data Analytics, Statistics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 2–4 years extracting, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting complex healthcare and public health data.
- Demonstrated experience with healthcare claims and clinical datasets.
- Hands-on experience in public health surveillance, chronic disease reporting, and population-level health analytics.
Technical and analytical qualifications
- Track record assessing data quality, accuracy, completeness, and timeliness across internal and external systems.
- Advanced SQL query development for complex extraction, aggregation, and manipulation.
- Experience with Python, including data visualization and statistical libraries; the description also references Python/R libraries.
- Experience designing, developing, and maintaining interactive BI dashboards, with Tableau and Power BI given as examples.
- Proficiency in statistical and research methods and analysis of structured and unstructured quantitative and qualitative data.
- Strong analytical thinking, communication, organization, prioritization, initiative, and collaboration skills; able to lead meetings and manage projects.
- In-depth knowledge of HIPAA and internal data governance policies; maintain confidentiality, privacy, and security.
Preferred qualification
- A master's degree with specialized training in research methods and statistical analysis in healthcare or public health is preferred.
Workplace and travel
- The position has remote and flexible-work policies.
- Occasional travel to Utah or conferences may be required.
Compensation
- The listed salary range is USD 72,000–85,000 per year.
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