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The Clinical Informatics Analyst is responsible for supporting clinical data stewardship through the permissible use of healthcare data in various research and development initiatives including improving clinical data management and operations under the Clinical Data Stewardship department of the Enterprise Data and Analytics (EDA) division at Meharry Medical College (MMC). Focused on core data technologies with strong ties to application areas across campus, the EDA division collects, stores, analyzes, governs, and stewards data to drive optimal outcomes for the entire Meharry Medical College enterprise which comprises the Academic enterprise, the Business enterprise, the Clinical enterprise, and the Research enterprise.

This role is responsible for interacting and understanding the clinical processes and Clinical Data warehouse systems to support data analysis, EHR data ecosystem analysis reports development, and clinical informatics. The Clinical Informatics Analyst will collaborate with EDA Data Infrastructure and Analytics teams and with clinical experts to validate the data stored in EDA’s data ecosystem and applications for data quality, integrity, and various data use requests for clinical studies, trials, and data extraction/sharing.

The Clinical Information Analyst will create and maintain documentation for Clinical Data Quality Measures, in alignment with EDA specifications. This role will also work closely with clinical subject matter experts to document the most appropriate sources for clinical Data Quality metrics. The Clinical Informatics Analyst should demonstrate an understanding of the complexities and interactions of clinician workflows, healthcare IT systems, interfaces, and mappings to EHR stored in the data warehouse.

Overall, the Clinical Information Analyst is a subject matter expert who assists with planning, design, development, testing, end-user training, implementation support, and adoption of Electronic Health Records to Meharry’s clinical data warehouse to achieve data quality and integrity. The Clinical Information Analyst will work closely with data analysts and development teams to support and validate clinical data sources for clinical data quality measures and clinical data initiatives as directed.

• Support clinical data stewardship by reviewing the requirements of the users and help developers in creating databases for specific use cases including data sharing and health information exchange, clinical trials, or studies.
• Provide expertise in clinical workflow and information management systems to support analysis, design, selection, configuration, implementation, testing, data mapping, and development of the clinical Data ETL Process for specific use case.
• Responsible for managing issues that may impact the expected outcomes from clinical data plans, workflow processes, extraction processes, or integrity of reporting.
• Provide technical support in development and management of health information systems that support the collection, sharing, standardization, and integration of healthcare data.
• Support the design of clinical data processes in conjunction with the development, implementation, optimization, and evaluation of Clinical Data Warehouses and data sharing.
• Run data quality and integrity reports frequently and interpret data to find issues and solutions.
• Utilize healthcare operation and clinical care discipline-specific knowledge to improve the Clinical Meharry Enterprise Data Quality.
• Analyze policies and procedures and provide consultation on developments in Enterprise Data Ecosystem.
• Analyze the development, implementation, and evaluation of procedures and systems in medical records
• Serve as Subject Matter Expert on any request for EHR context, Content, and mappings.
• Implement National and international standards for clinical documentation and terminology to enable interoperability.
• Understand and commit to the vision and established plans for Enterprise Data Warehouse content standards, and additional clinical EHR standards, especially when evaluating documentation elements for required data collection.
• Manage, track, and document…