Lifespark: Senior Healthcare Data Analyst

Lifespark is a complete senior health company headquartered in St. Louis Park, Minnesota. Since 2004, we've been helping seniors stay healthy, navigate their health care options with confidence, and live fuller, more independent lives as they age. That's where our people come in - from accounting and health technology to front-line nurses, advanced practice professionals, caregivers and everything in between, we are all invested entrepreneurs focused on helping people age magnificently.

Our Lifespark culture has created not only an award-winning workplace - earning Star Tribune Top Workplace 11 times, Minneapolis Business Journal Best Places to Work three times, and Top USA #1 in Healthcare - but a place where you have the room to be creative, make a difference, and have a purposeful, direct impact on how people age. Lifespark's full continuum of services offers a breadth of roles with the support to grow your career. To see the experience we are creating, watch our award-winning video Going South - this is the experience you will help create at Lifespark! Changing the age-old story starts with you - let's get you hired.

Position: Senior Health Care Data Analyst

Hours: Monday through Friday, 8am-5pm. Full-time, 1.0 FTE

Location: Hybrid, would have regular travel to St. Louis Park office

Wage starting at $90,000 annually, depending on experience

The Senior Healthcare Data Analyst is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting healthcare data to improve patient outcomes, operational efficiency, and understand/predict contractual performance. The Sr. Helathcare Data Analyst will work closely with stakeholders across the business including executive leadership, finance, operations leadership, and operations staff to deliver data and analytical assets.

Position Functions and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with business stakeholders to understand what they are trying to measure/accomplish and convert into requirements/business rules
• Develop and deliver data and analytics assets that support business stakeholder strategic objectives
• Collect, clean, and preprocess healthcare information from various sources, including clinical data (i.e. electronic health records), claims and enrollment data, CMS data, and other public/private datasets
• Perform exploratory analysis of healthcare data to identify trends, anomalies, and opportunities for process improvement
• Utilize statistical methods to analyze and interpret data, including patient outcomes, operational efficiency, treatment efficacy, financial performance, and disease prevalence
• Deliver useable, reliable, and robust regular and ad-hoc reports on key performance indicators (KPIs) for different business stakeholders
• Develop and maintain interactive dashboards and visualizations to communicate complex data findings to non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

Experience & Education

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Health Informatics, Mathematics or a related field. A master's degree is preferred
• 3+ years experience in healthcare analytics, including data collection, interpretation, and visualization/reporting
• Strong organizational and communication skills
• Knowledge of healthcare regulations and data privacy standards

It has been and will continue to be our policy to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to age, race, creed, color, disability, marital status, sex, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, arrest record, conviction record, military service, use or nonuse of lawful products off the Employer's premises during nonworking hours, or declining to attend a meeting or to participate in any communication about religious matters or political matters, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.