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Providence St. Joseph Health Chief, Clinical Analytics in Seattle, Washington
Description THE OPPORTUNITY Knowledge workers produce decisions. Providence has world-leading data stores and data infrastructure, but that does not automatically translate into world-leading decision making. We need a visionary Physician Leader to help make that happen. Chief, Clinical Analytics is a high-profile leadership position within the 200-strong Providence Analytics Center of Excellence (ACOE) whose role is about turning our information assets into great decisions by front-line providers, operations managers and executives. Making this happen requires that the Chief's team deliver on two things: products and analyses. Products , such as dashboards and metrics, allow the measurement of performance over time against desired processes and outcomes. Analyses are more open-ended explorations of data that use hypothesis-generation and inferential methods to answer questions, uncover problems and point the way to solutions. Products and analyses will be delivered by the Chief's team, which will consist of data engineers and product managers, and which will have ready access to data scientists, biostatisticians, human-centered design researchers, UI/UX experts and health services researchers, inside the ACOE and our allied department, the Health Research Accelerator. The Chief will need to: Deeply understand the strategic and tactical 'decision needs' of Providence and its caregivers. Determine how data products and analyses can support these needs. Develop, with their team, a portfolio of work that can provide the required products and analyses, taking into account 'people, process and technology. Lead their team in executing this portfolio of work with competence, attention to detail, sensitivity to the user experience and in a reasonable timeline. Success will require an ability to understand and empathize with the challenges of healthcare executives and front-line caregivers, a passion for improving care, creative problem-solving skills, a high degree of intellectual curiosity, a love of data, a good understanding of how to work with data, familiarity with methods of inference such as biostatistics, skill in navigating a complex organization and strong leadership abilities. A great candidate will be someone who is excited about the opportunity to work in a world-class data environment with a fantastic data team, who welcomes challenges, and who is willing to solve 'hard problems', even ones which have never been solved before. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES The Chief, Clinical Analytics will have the following accountabilities: Portfolio leadership Deeply understand the challenges faced by our ministries in their effort to deliver great care. Lead the process of visioning and building products (e.g. reports, dashboards, models, information provided at the point of care, data exploration tools) and analyses that will address these challenges. Work with clinical and operational leaders to prioritize the efforts of the Analytics Center of Excellence. Identify opportunities to bring health services researchers from the Providence Health Research Accelerator into partnership with ACOE teams, in order to answer. critical organizational questions and potentially contribute to scientific knowledge. Solution development Oversee Product Managers and Engineers operating in an agile process of product development. Ensure that the principles and procedures of Human-Centered Design are followed by development teams. Ensure a high level of excellence in development, documentation, maintenance and "Ops." Cultivate a culture of intellectual curiosity and scientific inquiry in our ACOE teams and amongst the executives and front-line caregivers we serve. Explore opportunities to commercialize analytics products in partnership with Providence Corporate Development. People management P