CareOregon is a community-focused healthcare organization and health plan serving Oregon Health Plan members through coordinated physical, behavioral, dental, and social-support services. Its work spans care coordination, telehealth, provider and member portals, language and tribal services, community grants, and outreach. CareOregon also addresses social determinants of health through programs connected to housing, nutrition, and transportation, supporting more than 500,000 people across Oregon. Job seekers interested in healthcare, health insurance, care delivery, and mission-driven technology may find opportunities across the teams that support these services.
Healthcare Data Analyst II
Analyze healthcare data and develop reports and dashboards at CareOregon, a managed care organization. Support data stewardship, process improvement, and informed decisions across departments.
Description
- Partner with business teams and leaders to clarify needs, frame questions, and set objectives.
- Learn and stay current on internal and external systems and data sources.
- Determine analysis and reporting requirements.
- Gather and prepare data for analysis.
- Write queries for standard and custom reports.
- Build, enhance, and maintain analytical capabilities, reports, dashboards, and visual tools.
- Track data, investigate anomalies, and share metric status and results with leaders.
- Synthesize, visualize, and interpret data to identify patterns, trends, changes, and outliers.
- Use quality assurance methods to confirm data accuracy, reliability, and validity.
- Assist with diagnostic and forecasting analyses involving claims, utilization, trends, and risk.
- Research and analyze healthcare data.
- Present findings to internal leaders and external stakeholders, turning complex data into insights and recommendations.
- Document models, algorithms, data products, processes, and reports.
- Recommend improvements to processes, policies, and programs.
- Provide support to less experienced analysts.
- Act as the analysis contact and subject matter expert for the assigned team.
- Work with analysts, departments, business lines, ISBI staff, quality improvement analysts, leaders, and external partners.
- Support administrative data collection, dashboard data-element definitions, reporting specifications, and workflow and process improvements.
- Take part in CareOregon’s community of practice.
- Safeguard data quality and integrity.
- Build knowledge of data infrastructure and reporting processes.
- Create curated datasets for departments.
- Maintain data dictionaries, business glossaries, metric definitions, and related technical documentation.
Requirements
- At least three years of experience conducting data analysis in a healthcare setting.
- Experience with reporting and analysis in the relevant focus area is preferred.
- Familiarity with Tableau and Power BI for data blending, joining, and advanced functions.
- Familiarity with Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) and/or Snowflake.
- Ability to write intermediate to complex queries.
- Knowledge of program evaluation methods and analytical strategies.
- Understanding of basic statistics and calculations used to develop metrics.
- Familiarity with healthcare data and its domains is preferred.
- Ability to learn federal and state managed healthcare rules and regulations, including HIPAA.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.
- Proficiency with Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio.
- Proficiency with Tableau Desktop/Creator products and data visualization development.
- Ability to produce complete, thorough, and clear reports, graphs, tables, and summaries.
- Ability to gather, prepare, analyze, and statistically evaluate data.
- Ability to recommend and implement process improvements.
- Strong communication, collaboration, interpersonal, customer service, critical thinking, prioritization, and deadline-management skills.
- Ability to work independently and with diverse teams.
- Ability to see, read, and perform repetitive finger and wrist movements for at least six hours per day.
- Ability to hear and speak clearly for at least three to six hours per day.
Benefits
- Annual incentive plan bonus opportunity with a 5% target.
- Medical, dental, vision, life, accidental death and dismemberment, and disability insurance.
- Health savings account.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Lifestyle spending account.
- Employee assistance program.
- Wellness program.
- Discounts.
- Supplemental options include voluntary life, critical illness, accident, hospital indemnity, identity theft protection, pre-tax parking, pet insurance, and a 529 college savings plan.
- Retirement plan with employer contributions.
- Paid time off.
- Paid state sick time.
- Paid holidays.
- Volunteer time off.
- Jury duty leave.
- Bereavement leave.
- Work-from-home arrangement.