Career Opportunities

Essential Duties & Responsibilities including but not limited to:

The Analyst will be responsible for projects as prioritized by the Chief Scientific Officer and leadership of CERI including:

• Creating data extracts using the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and Lahey Health Observational Database Environment (LHODE) by applying various criteria and providing descriptive statistics.
• Create and/or maintain data marts for the various departments and stakeholders, such data is used to support a specific research activity.
• Integrating registry data with EHR data to create/supplement research data marts.
• Exploring and describing research datasets to answer specific data-related questions by stakeholders.
• Developing end-user documentation and any related training resources for data mart owners.
• Maintaining an inventory of research data assets for future use by the Lahey research community.

• Support for the Lahey Health Observational Database Environment (LHODE) as the primary research data repository managed by CERI.
• Data originating from the Epic Electronic Health Record (EHR) System into the OMOP Common Data Model (CDM) as a standard format to foster research collaboration.
• Working with various ontology systems such as ICD, CPT, LOINC to identify data elements to build reusable value sets.
• Continued expansion of complex clinical concept definitions to derive data elements.
• Working in conjunction with other Clinical Data Analysts and staff as needed to complete project requirements and meet research goals, timelines and budgets.

Functions:

• Collaborate with data mart owner, research coordinators, statisticians, investigators and other researchers to implement a data extraction plan Develop, write, execute, test, debug, implement, modify and support new or existing data extraction plans in support of research projects.
• Write documentation as required to track data mart development.
• Manage, reformat, enter, edit, merge and maintain data in preparation for analysis.
• Conduct data validation and audit checks.
• Query reports for problematic data (erroneous or illogical data values); send to research team lead for resolution.
• Transfer data among different formats for integration and analysis purposes.
• Analyze data using SQL or other programming language or tools to generate descriptive statistics and assist in development of statistical models and graphics.
• Review statistical output for consistency and quality.
• Prepare tables and quality graphics of statistical results for inclusion in interim and final reports, presentations, abstracts, manuscript submissions and grant applications.
• Communicate extraction results to data mart owner, research lead and team.

General requirements include:

• Maintains strict adherence to the Lahey Clinic Confidentiality policy.
• Incorporates Lahey Clinic Guiding Principles, Mission Statement and Goals into daily activities. 
• Complies with all Lahey Clinic Policies.
• Complies with behavioral expectations of the department and Lahey Clinic.
• Maintains courteous and effective interactions with colleagues and patients.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the job description, performance expectations, and competency assessment.
• Demonstrates a commitment toward meeting and exceeding the needs of our customers and consistently adheres to Customer Service standards.
• Participates in departmental and/or interdepartmental quality improvement activities.
• Participates in and successfully completes Mandatory Education.
• Performs all other duties as needed or directed to meet the needs of the department.